3 o'clock in the morning. Deeply coiled in your sleeping bag, you struggle to open your eyes while the clock is reminding you your duty - wake up, eat a bit and light your headlamp : the climbing of the Cervin cannot wait. In Matterhorn, you have to be the first to reach to top. Throw the dice, throw them again, but stop at the right time if you don't want...
Maul is a competitive two-player card game with a fantasy theme, based on a tournament between two rival teams. Each team is comprised of 10 players that have varied skills and attributes to suit their position/role. Players battle through 6 rounds of full-contact action, with the team holding the Detonator at the end of each round gaining points. The team...
The active player spins an arrow and follows instructions according to the result. This is a gymnastic exercise that has to be executed. The more often this is achieved while a sand timer runs, the more fields the active player can proceed on the track. When a player runs into an obstacle, he/she has to answer a question about the 15 animals included in...
Max Walker's Cricket Game is a classic, simple cricket game from the 80s. It consists of a simple grading mechanism for teams rating bowlers and batsmen, a dice roll, and cards to resolve match conditions and loose balls. Unlike other games, a full five day test match can be played out in a matter of hours with realistic results. The game comes with more...
Máxima Definición is a free print and play board game, a simple game in which we will pretend to be playing a soccer game which has ended up tied, after extra time everything will be defined in the penalty shootout. Each player will intersperse roles as goalkeeper and as a player who kicks the penalty, they will have to choose carefully the different...
A Snooker-based game that needed to be 'made' by any interested gamer. It was self-published in a fanzine from the mid-eighties. Cards provide a variety of options open to a Snooker player when he comes to the table. When a player takes on a pot, cards are used to generate three decisions. The first card drawn will tell if the shot is Easy, Medium or Hard....
An urban skating game included in the cardstock model set "Urban Grind" published from Worldworks Games. From the publisher: Mayhem: Urban Grind is a skate park, standees and mini-game all in one! Design the park of your dreams and furnish it with all the ramp and grind combos you can handle! Once constructed build up an army of skater dudes to inhabit the...
MCS pits 2 or 4 players against each other in this fast-paced simulation of speedway racing. By using three types of cards - riders, laps and racing - team managers will do the following: - determine their riders' current forms and on their basis assign given riders to particular races; - figure out the track properties which will reveal in which straights...
Early 20th century action game. Your yacht is attached to a length of string in such a way that if the string is pulled, raised or shaken, the player can make the yacht 'sail' along the string to the finish line. The strings are attached to the table. The box illustrates rather well the set-up and the game-play. Really cute cats are in the illustration on...