As day breaks upon Sekigahara pass, two armies stand ready to lay claim to the future of Japan. Two years before, Toyotomi Hideyoshi died leaving a son too young to rule. The council of regents sworn to defend his son split into two factions intent upon seizing power for themselves. As the fog lifts from the mountain pass, each faction stands poised for...
The game of Al-Jabar is based on concepts of color-mixing familiar to most of us from childhood, and on ideas from abstract algebra, a branch of higher mathematics. Once you are familiar with the rules of the game, your intuitive notions of color lead to interesting and often counter-intuitive color combinations created in gameplay. While the mathematics...
Rules of the Game: 4 cards are dealt for all players to see, two of which have yellow backs. The first player uses as many or as few cards as needed, (the only rule is each card can only be used once per turn) to create an equation that equals 1. The next player uses the same cards to create an equation for 2 and play continues as high as cards or ability...
Algorilude is a french card game by Louis Abraham. The game consists of a deck of cards symbolizing various mathematical operations beneficial or harmful. The goal is to construct an algorithm representing the process of a calculator (operations, loops, ...). Playing his best cards, each player will try to reach the highest score while slowing down...
Algoritmo won the first edition of the contest for unpublished games, Premio Archimede, in 1994. Quality Game published it the year after. Each player has a little plastic computer that runs on the board to get rid of all the "output cards" he got at the beginning. Each player has a little cardboard "console" with three boxes called A, B and C. The player...
Alien Attack! is a strategy board game for 2-4 players that pits them against an impending alien invasion - and each other. A ground war with the aliens seems inevitable as the first waves of enemies approach. Players take the role of weapons development companies seeking a contract with the Earth Defense Force. Defeating aliens gets you brownie points...
Steel Your Nerve, Colonise Planets, and Defeat the Alien Hordes! Aliens Ate My Planet! is a 'gateway' deckbuilding card game suitable for 1-4 players in which players are constantly building and streamlining their deck of cards in order to colonise planets and destroy aliens in ever more efficient ways! Use Kudos to buy and build Combat and Colony fleets...
Discover, assign and count domestic animals. It's a tiptoi game for very young players (3 year olds). Where does the fox live? And what does the hedgehog really love to eat? How well do you know about horses, cats ...? With the game "All My Animals" and the tiptoi device you will learn a lot about domestic animals, their habitats, their animal children...
Allegiance is a pretty interesting spin on Chess, Checkers and Backgammon. This game adds a third player to all three games, making for some interesting play on these classic games. From the game box: With the addition of a third player and the greatly expanded gameboard, Allegiance provides new and challenging dimensions to the classic games of chess...
The Theme You are a priest of a troubled Temple. A Thieves’ Guild has emerged and is challenging your Temple for influence over the land. You must decide whether to work along with your brethren in the fight against the Thieves Guild or betray your brothers and guide the Thieves’ Guild to prominence. Gameplay In Allegiance, players use cards to adjust the...
From the Publisher: Allowance provides a great way to teach young people about earning and saving money, as well as wisely making special purchases. Game cards indicate a task like mowing lawns and cleaning the garage. Choices are made, as in real life, whether to spend money on ice cream, or put it into savings. Coin chips from one cent to fifty cents and...