Octago is a game for the Yvio Boardgame Console. An Yvio Console is needed to play. In Octago you move around the board trying to pick up points. The board consists of 12 spaces showing each a symbol in a certain color. The longer nobody steps on a space, symbol, or color, the more points you get for entering the space. The console does all the...
A board game for 2 to 8 players. The aim of the game is to form a lifeline using matching symbols. The first player to form a lifeline when he places his last stone is the winner. Chinese sticks (dinner-things) are used to allow fate to determine a lifeline. Anticipation and planning largely determine the chance of success. The element of chance means that...
Z-Chess is a cross between the game of GLE'X and conventional chess. Two GLE'X boards put together - overlapping in the middle - make up the playing field. Conventional chess pieces - with the addition of a second Queen - are used to play the game. The goal, just like in the ancient game, is to capture the opponent's King. The strategy is similar as well...
Z game is a game for two players. It is played like a simplified version of chess/checkers. And it has the mechanism of hidden values for the pieces, just like Stratego. At the beginning of the game, each player places his pieces as he wishes. The value of each piece is hidden from the opponent. The 'Z' piece is placed on the fixed base point, and...
Zagami is a game of Martian microbial life for four players. It requires a standard chessboard and a set of Icehouse Pieces. Each player controls a single-colored colony of microbes, which moves and expands across the small meteorite in search of food. Multicolored stacks begin to form - microbes eating microbes eating microbes. As the game progresses...
Zaic is a 2-player 15-minute abstract that can be played on any flat surface without a board. Inspired by the ziggurats of Mesopotamia and the tiles of the designer's bathroom floor, each player vies for the largest area of his tiles by connecting his own and covering his opponent's. Each player is given 19 tiles in three sizes. As the game progresses, it...
ZAM is a game between two players. The object of the the game is to "exterminate all the Zammen of the adverse side or leave some immovable." The game is played on an 8x8 checkered board. The pieces are made of colored wood, one side red, the other yellow. Each color has two shapes: either a short cylinder with a hole through the axis, or a short cylinder...
Zambezy ... a board game of strategic placement and points accumulation using luck of the draw and tactics. The object is to accumulate points by placing or exposing pieces of the same colour on four adjacent spaces to form squares. Pieces may be placed on top of others but only on opposing-colour pieces - maximum: 4 high. Only same-colour pieces on the...
A little roll-and-move shoot-'em-up game using a Treehouse set of icehouse pieces, Martian Coasters, and a 6-sided die. Players use stacked nests of pyramids to represent a Zamboni with a giant laser on top - the mechanics are simple, run around the board, shoot at your opponent until you're the last one on the field. Since the pieces are nested, each time...
Zamitar is a chess style game with very 70’s inspired sci-fi acrylic pieces. Each piece has it’s own move, as in a normal chess game. The difference being that a few of the pieces can bounce their moves off the walls. To win you must take the opponents Space Station piece. The astronaut piece definitely has a “Danger - Will Robinson” (from the old LOST IN...