Black Box or "KO-code" is a puzzle game in which one player creates a puzzle by secretly choosing the positions of 4-5 marbles on a 8x8 grid. The other player tries to guess their positions by shooting 'rays' into the grid and seeing how they bounce around. The player requiring the fewest rays to solve a puzzle wins. The German First Edition was named LOGO...
According to the introduction of the rules: "Imagine a castle in the middle ages with four armies facing one another, ready to battle. You command one of those armies. You send your soldiers off to attack the enemy and capture prisoners at the same time remaining vigilant so that your own troops don't fall into a trap." In this abstract strategy game, you...
Black Cat Jack is a tactical card-drafting duel inspired by Blackjack — but twisted into something far more chaotic, strategic, and deliciously wicked. Before each match, both players strengthen their decks by drafting new cards from a shared pool. With over 70 unique card types, every draft shapes a completely different strategy: manipulate values...
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...