Blood Diamonds is a game of land, natural resources, wealth and bankruptcy. The game board depicts a large property with a river running through the middle of it. The property is partitioned by a 6x6 grid into 36 sectors. Each of the sectors is divided into 16 parcels of land, or less if the sector includes part of the river. Blood Diamonds is presented as...
On a very large map of New York, including all the suburbs in Queens and Brooklyn, players build up their gangs of thugs, goons and hit men. Move these around the city in limos, speedboats and helicopters, attack your enemies, and take control of boroughs to earn income and hire more gangsters. Kill your enemy's Boss and you control their gang. Buy police...
Over 20 years, the United States deployed over 750,000 service members to Afghanistan to oversee a transformation of the country that would cost 2.3 trillion US dollars and over 175,000 lives. The US military thwarted insurgents, while the creation of infrastructure, economic development, training and additional security was entrusted to the largest...
The Carpathian mountains are drowning in blood. Rome pushes north. Dacia fights with teeth and falx. And every corpse feeds something older than both empires, an ancient relic that wakes in the slaughter, chooses one vessel, and turns a single warrior into a monster that can break entire legions. Bloodmantle: Legions & Wolves is not another minis skirmish....
Each player starts with $1630 and uses the dice to travel around the gameboard buying property. The properties represent Bloomingdale’s department stores around the United States. Houses and hotels from Monopoly are replaced with little and big brown bags. Players can play until all but one player is bankrupt or the richest player is determined to be the...
The Bloomworks is a city block known for bold art and busy markets, the perfect place for an aspiring florist such as yourself. With nothing more than a patch of studio sunlight, you've given yourself three years to grow a garden, master floriculture, and cover the block with your arrangements. The florist with the greatest reputation after three years...
Blue Chip (also published as Dow Jones) is a very simplistic stock market game with an interesting twist (sliding pegboards). There are 12 companies divided into Industrials (such as GM), Railroads (such as Union Pacific), and Utilities (such as AT&T). There are four of each type, and each type has a peg board of a different primary color. On your turn you...
This game is concerned with the acquiring of Assets. The Assets are acquired by making bids using cards. Every player has 56 Bid Cards, that range from 1 to 50 + 6 blank cards. When a player bids for an Asset, he selects one card from his holding. All bids are simultaneous. You don't have to bid if you do not want to. Bids are revealed and the highest...
A Korean knock-off of Monopoly. Instead of buying "streets," you're buying "cities" (Seoul replaces Boardwalk). If you visit your own city, you can build various buildings. Community Chest and Chance cards are conflated into one "Key" cards that give you either some sort of bonus or penalty. Other than that, it's pretty much identical to Monopoly: roll...
Blue Mongolia is a Monopoly reimplementation with a Mongolian theme and a trivia component. Players move around a circular board buying and selling cultural elements of Mongolia (from the Gobi desert to the Mongolian costumes to the State play of Mongolia). When a player lands on an "About Mongolia" space, they must answer a trivia question, earning money...
Blue Steel Brewery is a "roll and write" game that puts the player in the seat of a manager, at a beer-making company. The goal is to take the initial capital and increase the size of the business by buying ingredients from the fluctuating market and producing various types of beers and ales to sell. Logistically, ales are a type of beer, but for the sake...