Rudiments is a card game played with a traditional deck of cards in which a single player aspires to join the school drumline. The game is played over four rounds: the first three are called “practice sessions”, with the last known as the “audition”. These rounds require the player to arrange their cards by color in certain sticking patterns, known as...
Yet another Michael Mette designed and web-published variant of the well-known Empire Builder system by Mayfair Games. As with several of his more recent games, this game takes place on a much smaller map than the traditional games in the series, so small in fact, that it is limited to only 2 players. It takes place primarily on Ruegen Island, off the...
The goal of the game is to collect more valuable resources from an ancient alien ruin than your opponents. The first phase is Discovering the Ruins. Each turn you put a tile on the board. The tiles must match the other tiles on the placement you choose. After the tiles are placed, you move on to Looting the Ruins. You move your looter 1 tile and may take a...
Ruinstars is an open-source, fast-paced, miniatures-agnostic tabletop skirmish game set during the final age of the galaxy. Players command small, hardened squads in high-lethality black ops missions across fractured star systems. Fight in the shadows of dying gods, decaying empires, and forgotten horrors as the last battles rage. Featuring a campaign and...
In The Rule one player invents The Rule, according which the cards must be sequenced, and all the other players must infer it on the basis of their own attempts and of the ones of the others. The winner is the first player to succeed in correctly understanding The Rule. The special cards of The Rule contains mathematical, geometrical and colour elements...
A generic rules set for recreating ancient battles on a variety of scales. "The basic concept is to be able to have: Relatively quick battles with 20-30 units to a side. A minimum of record keeping. Easy set up. A very simple rules-system, easily learned, and easily modified." Contains Army Lists for the Greeks, Persians, Macedonians, Indians...
“2-Player Pirate Strategy War Game. One player plays the rum runners. The other player plays the interceptors (rival pirates).” The game is played on a chess board or other 8x8 grid. There are seven types of units in the game: Swashbucklers, Swordsman, Slashers, Rum Runners, Musketeers, Pirates, and Mercenaries. The Rum Runner player has three Rum Runners...
A turn based tactics strategy game pitting two armies against each other for total dominating victory. The last one standing is the victor. Armies consist of units that range from a wide range of factions, including circus performers, fairies and the undead. The game begins with an always changing battlefield and a win/lose condition being selected, such...
Fancy Animals is a rummy-type card game where players choose one of four fancy animal portrait boards and use the material cards to make runs in order to acquire fancy clothing items. On every turn players will either take a card from the draw deck or play cards from their hand to the table. They can make runs entirely from their own hand OR by creatively...
“Chinese symbolism theme with rummy/poker mechanics. The Deck: Players share a common deck. The deck contains 27 cards. There are 5 Suites each with 5 cards numbered 1-5.” The five suits are Elements, Blessings, Virtues, Directions, and Beasts for Sacrifice. In addition there is one Ying and one Yang card. The first player to play a five card meld wins the...
The two-player card game Cold War Rummy was inspired thematically by Twilight Struggle and mechanically by Mike Fitzgerald's Mystery Rummy game series. In the game, each suit represents different geographical areas that players are trying to score, in addition to China and the NATO/Warsaw Pact alliances. Action cards allow players to manipulate their hands...
At last... a rummy game with Monkeys! Every type of monkey has a different ability and you can either play them for VP (well, bananas) or play them for their action. You can only play one action card a turn but if you have a meld of monkeys in front of you, you get to play their action for free each turn. This game is an entry to the Themed Rummy Design...