This ‘heavyweight’ strategy game for two players was invented by Frank Czarnetzki, better known for illustrating the Cwali games Logistico and Subulata under the name of Czarne. A herd of 10 working elephants is hard to keep in check. Their job is to collect tree trunks, and the need to be carefully moved over the working area to accomplish this. To keep...
Abstract strategy game. Each player has a Simulator (in effect, a private board for each player). On this secret board a player may place his Black Holes (land on an enemy Black Hole and your spaceship is out of the game). Then players set out their spaceships. Movement is plotted on your private screens and there is no combat system that requires a die...
Black Hole was invented some years ago as a result of the game designer's fascination with strange cosmic phenomena. Black Hole is a strategy game, not hard to learn, but extremely hard to play well. It should appeal to anyone who enjoys spatial games and puzzles like the Rubik's Cube or strategic games like Chess. The aim of the game is simple, capture as...
Black Hole, initially designed as a paper-and-pencil game, is played on a triangular board of 21 cells. Two players alternate turns placing a numbered disc of their color onto an empty space. Discs are numbered 1-10 and must be placed in numerical order. When all the discs have been placed, the game ends. The one board space that remains empty is the...
An abstract game of losing meteors, the aptly if generically named game of Black Hole revolves around setting your asteroids on paths that will have them ricochet off other asteroids, straight into the pocket in the center. Every turn you get to move one of your pieces in a straight line orthagonically - like a giant space rook. If they strike another of...
This game is a two player game. Game is played on a 5x5 board. The middle square of the board is accepted as a black hole. The aim of the game is to land firs two of game pieces on this center hole. Each player has four space ships in his/her own color. At the beginning of the game players places their pieces on the board as seen in the game picture. Each...
Players compete to uncover a secret code consisting of three elements, each of which may be one of four colors. They do this by taking actions determined by the roll of three Treehouse dice. Rules for this game were initially released in July 2007 as part of the 3HOUSE booklet; it is played using three complete Treehouse sets. It is unrelated to the...
ブラックジャンケン! (Black Janken!) is a shedding card game from Japan. The game uses a sock-Scissors-paper mechanism (called Janken in Japan), but the winner is the first person to clear their hand. The game has 9 yellow and 9 white cards, and 3 black cards, showing rock/scissors/paper evenly. However, the white cards show the RSP on both sides, giving information...
Abstract game on 6x6 grid that folds up to form the box. Players have 6 pieces each with one side black, the other white, like Reversi/Othello pieces. Pieces may move in any direction and when they jump an opponents piece, it's turned over to show your color. An uninspiring variant on Reversi which lacks clear rules. Can you make multiple jumps? How far...
This elegant little game is playable on a rectangular grid with square Trax-like tiles, each of which has 2 black lines connecting pairs of sides (either opposite pairs of sides, or adjacent pairs of sides). Players alternate placing tiles, each tile extending the black path from a designated start arrow at the side of the board. If a player connects the...
Black-Pot is played on a board of 109 squares (11x11 with the corners removed) on which players take turns to add tokens of their color, with the object of forming five tokens in a row. Each square has a number on it and on a player's turn they roll three dice then use the numbers on the dice singly or in combination to determine which squares they may...
“Meeeeh!” Sheep are marching in a sunny day. A herd of black sheep and a herd of white sheep meet each other on the bridge from different ends. Unfortunately, the bridge was too narrow for them to pass by each other. Can you get over the bridge before your fellow sheep player does? Rules 1.Each player alternatively takes turns to move his/her sheep. 2.Only...