It's a Game Mashup: The Game of Life and Trouble. As with the Game of Life game, players move their car token around the board, but in this edition it's not about a career and earning money -- it's about getting car tokens filled with pegs to get them Home first. The Trouble game's Pop-O-Matic die roller is now combined with The Game of Life spinner to...
This is a game of global travel and trade. It consists of six miniature ships, two different spinners, and a four-section map of the world measuring roughly 35" x 20". The map bears a variety of different routes available (Panama vs. Cape Horn, Suez vs. Cape of Good Hope, etc.) that can be sailed in either direction. The objective is to complete a trip...
An interesting and humorously packaged alternative take on Monopoly, with players accumulating property and trying to bankrupt their opponents. The big difference is that bankrupt players, though they can no longer win, are not eliminated; they instead go on "Swellfare" and are given rubber checks with which to pay their rents. To win the last solvent...
The object of the game is to bankrupt the competition by buying, selling, expanding, and investing in local business properties in Mentor, Ohio. The play is similar to Monopoly in that players take turn rolling dice to move around the board, encountering spaces, and either purchasing an unowned business, paying a fee to another player if the business is...
This game is a geopolitical simulation of local influence in the Middle East on the flow of oil supplies to the rest of the world. The map shows 8 fictitious Middle Eastern oil producing countries, one of which controls the Canal that links both ocean sides. If your superpower is on one ocean and you try to obtain oil from a country bordering on the other...
Players move around the board buying coins at auctions, coin shops and flea markets, trading and selling them. The player with the most money wins the game.. The game can also be played solitaire to see how much money one can make. An interesting twist in the game is that players use actual, current coin prices for their transactions. Thus the players need...
This exclusively equipped pre-war boardgame simulates the exploration of oil fields and the drilling for oil. As the box lid says: Suspense - Exitement - Speculation !!! The contents are a lot of drilling rigs, oil tanks and game pawns, all made of wood in 6 different colours. Add a lot of company shares and money chips made of thick cardboard and you have...
This 1899 card game has a Happy Families mechanic. The cards are organized in sets of four. They are dealt out evenly among the players. Each player in turn asks another player for a card that matches one of his own: if successful, he gets the card and another turn; if not, the turn passes. The winner is the player to collect the most complete sets. What...
The Game of Powers is a 'roll and move' design coupled with an 'economic light' engine. Each player represents a World Bank that is trying to annex as many World Powers (countries) as possible. The player that has secured the greatest power by the end of the game is declared the winner. Source: Taken from the introduction found in the rulebook. The Game of...