A game for a solo or multiple players to use actual physics to land the Lunar Exploration Module (LEM) on the Sun, planet, or Earth's moon. Note: Pluto is not not one of planets to land on, so maybe back in 1980, Dr. Cleaver recognized then that it wasn't really a planet! It is a double-sided 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper, folded in a manilla envelope) and...
A 3-in-1 in which you try to predict the Outcome of the Batter at Bat. The 3 ways are:"LIVE" Batter a Batter; from a Custom Deck of 52-Cards; a Batter from a custom 12-Sided Dice; Using an 8-card "Master 8" deck, you choose a card that you predict will be the outcome. The 3 versions of the game each have a different "Outcome": "LIVE" Interactive version -...
A mathematical card game. The cards feature somewhere interesting in Sunderland, which is in the northeast of England. Each card has a number between 0 and 9, except for the Double cards. Each player gets 6 cards and must look to see if a pair can be formed. A pair is made up of two numbers that, when multiplied together, make a total that is also on one...
Atropos is a mathematical (topological) game based on Sperner's lemma. No mathematical background is necessary in order to play the game. The game starts with a triangulation of a big triangle, whose three nodes are colored (say) red, yellow and green. Players take turns and color one vertex of the triangulation in red, yellow or green. There are two...
The game consists of 90 number cards (2x 1-10, 1x 11-20 in three colors), 12 action cards and 48 task cards. Each player receives a task cards and a number (eight or more) number or action cards. A move consists of either drawing a card and discarding two, or drawing two and discarding one. When a player has fulfilled his or her task, he or she gets to...
"AVES" is a light card game features set collection and hand management. In this game, players become pure white birds, and by collecting the fruits of the rainbow tree, they gain beautiful colors on their feathers. Players have to manage their hand well and trade the fruits carefully to win the game. Only the basic subtraction concept is required, so...
You want to be the most acclaimed of movie producers. The only way to do that is to collect accolades from your industry. To reach this goal, you are going to have to make some pretty good movies. Unfortunately, your fellow producers are onto you, and they want to beat your box office star power. However, if you can collect five awards for Best Picture...
Described in the book Calculate!, Away Across is a game where players try to connect opposite sides of a 10x10 board of 100 numbers. Play makes use of a calculator, though can be done by hand. A player selects a square on the board and a number that is entered into the calculator. The second player multiples this number by another number. Play then...
Baby is cooperative deduction micro game for two to three players in which one player facilitates the recurring and semi-random needs of the infant whilst the other one (or two) player(s) take on the role of the parents, attempting to decipher and resolve the cause of their child's cries. The game consists of three micro decks of five cards each. One deck...
There are three accepted variants of Baccarat: Baccarat Chemin de Fer, Baccarat Banque and Punto Banco. Typically played in Casinos, several standard decks of 52 cards are shuffled together and dealt from a communal card shoe. All three variants operate on the same principle; 2 cards are dealt in alternating order to a hand designated as the Player, and a...
This game was attached to issue 11 of the ioGioco magazine. The forest is full of juicy berries and fragrant fruits. Each animal, sniffing the air, listening to the rustle of the leaves and calculating the best routes, tries to reach the richest bushes. But other gluttons target the same succulent fruits. We must hurry, before someone faster blows us under...