One player takes on the role of Odysseus, trying to get safely to Ithaka. The other plays Poseidon, attempting to prevent same. Odysseus moves according to the spinner with distance determined by color results on dice. Various spaces generate event cards. Poseidon moves via cloud and if he can catch a ship there is an attack on that ship. Rated for Ages 10...
Odysseus is a solo roguelike survival board game, where the player plays Odysseus and tries to reach Ithaca. Like all roguelike games, the journey is brutal, and players will not succeed at first, with defeat being a certainty. But each defeat brings along with it experience, knowledge, and power that carries over to the next game in the form of meta...
After ten long years of war against the Trojans, the victorious Odysseus hopes at last to return home and reunite with his loved ones in Odysseus. But the gods have decided otherwise. On his journey back to Ithaca, a thousand trials await him: sirens, cyclopes, angry gods, and enchanting goddesses... With the help of Athena, guide and protect Odysseus...
Players create their own characters and fight it out! Detailed rules for on ships and weapons are included. There is even a pop quiz called the "Rules Check" to make sure you have correctly understood everything. Should be of interest to anyone specializing in the Homeric period. Includes 32-page rules booklet, character reference sheet, 36 cards and 2...
Massive board shows Ulysses' voyage from Troy to Ithaca. Players take on the roles of Minerva (helping him) or Neptune (hampering him). The latter secretes 8 perils about the Mediterranean. Then Minerva's wind blows the fleet of six ships from the shores of Troy. The fleet is driven hither and yon by the players' competing winds. There can even be...
It is 430 B.C, the era of the Peloponnes war. Hit by famine and plague, the different cities of Greece tries to gain the favor of the Gods and Goddesses of Olympus by offering them the most attractive sumptuous ritual sacrifice. The game consists of three phases. Firstly : the bidding phase. Players would have to recruit different offerings/materials...
The Ogoola Karuta Poetry Game ENGLISH MODERN (cards 51-100) Play like Chihayafuru with poems written in English! This edition uses 50 modern English poems from the 19th century until today. Some of the poets included are Tennyson, Whitman, Yeats, Joyce, Plath, Pound, Frost, Eliot, Heaney and Merwin. Contains 50 reading cards, 50 playing cards and a poetry...
Hyakuninisshu English Translated Karuta is an English translated version of the Japanese Karuta using the translation of the original Japanese old poems from the anthology called "Hyakuninisshu". This edition is the complete version of all 100 cards. The game is sometimes described as intellectual martial arts. It is about listening and being extremely...
Ogoola Karuta Deutsch 1-48 is a German version of a 400-year-old Japanese card game called Hyakunin-isshu Karuta. The game is sometimes described as intellectual martial arts. It is about listening and being extremely focused and fast, just like the Samurai with their swords. Only here you fight with cards instead. The game is comprised of two decks of...