Watch, a.k.a. Quick, is a game of tactics. The 25 wooden playing pieces in 10 different colors are placed on the 25 squares on the board. Each player has a playing token and in turn places their token over one of the wooden playing pieces on the board, but the second player can't choose the same color as the first. Following the rules of play, tokens are...
Each participate starts with 20 towers which are introduced by casting a die: the number cast will decide how many towers may be placed on the board. Initial placing may follow any random pattern. The objective is to encircle opposing towers and to avoid encirclement. Once all the towers are placed, they may be moved only vertically or horizontally by as...
From the advertising... Watch Out Our new, and we think rather clever, DISCWORLD BOARD GAME Where those jolly scamps of Thieves try to slip past the brave lads of the Watch in the merry streets of old Ankh-Morpork. A game devised by the Genius of Trevor Truran, who, after consultation with Terry Pratchett, allowed The Cunning Artificer, Bernard Pearson, to...
From the Publisher: Princess Water Lily and her sisters are to be wed! Frogs from all the Kingdom have heard the news and want to take part in the Royal Race, because the winners will marry them and become Princes! But it's a tricky race: hopping forward too fast will get you only a few points, and arriving too late no points! Water Lily is a suspenseful...
2-4 player tile-laying game with simultaneous bidding for control of actions each turn. Players aim to bring their "flow" piece down the waterfall avoiding obstacles and being the first to reach the bottom. On each turn, players choose actions they wish to control: adding a path tile, moving their flow piece up to 3 tiles, adding a block on a path tile...
Waterfall Chess is an evolved form of traditional chess, played across five 4×4 boards. While each piece moves according to classic chess rules, the battlefield is far more complex—and volatile. Every move can cause a cascade of warping pieces across the layered boards, creating unexpected threats, sudden openings, and chain reactions. Mastering Waterfall...
"Why did Wellington win?" This is an abstract challenge for one or two players. The board is a "T" shaped pattern of 33 squares in alternating colors. Each square is marked with the name of a Napoleonic battle. There are 32 playing pieces (like checkers) in two colors. The playing pieces are placed on the board, leaving the center "Waterloo" square empty....
Watubi, an African Strategy Game, is an abstract 2-player game played on a hexagonal board, in which players try to regroup their own scattered tribe-stones, using Halma style movement rules. Players each place their own set of 13 tribe-stones onto the predefined starting places. These tribe-stones have two sides: one side with a tribe-symbol, and one...
Waurie is a Traditional Games: Mancala game played on the Cayman Islands where it is traditionally played with nickernuts. It is also known as Island Wari. Unusually for a Mancala game the aim of the game is to empty your side of the board rather than win the most seeds. It is played on a board with 2 rows of 6 holes and a storehouse at each end, starting...
Players vie to connect either pair of opposite sides of the board using their pawns. After an initial placement phase, pieces are then maneuvered between orthogonally adjacent points. When a diamond is formed by a player, a block counter is placed in the center reserving that point for that player. Pieces can jump an opponent's piece, & that taken piece is...
BoneGames produces a number of do-it-yourself free games. You download a PDF containing rules and components, and print out what is required for play. The Way is a two-player strategy game played on a 5x5 grid of cards, which are rotated and replaced to form paths to move upon. The first player to get to his destination, to find The Way, is the winner. The...