Winner of the 2018 Best Combinatorial Game award, Blooms is a 2-player game where players capture each other’s pieces by surrounding them. It was inspired by the classical game Go and a painting in an Oregon coffee shop. Rules Bloom : a bloom is an entire group of connected stones on the board of the same color. A single stone (unconnected to others of the...
Bloqs can be learned in five minutes. Simple gameplay, yet challenging because of the intense tactical and strategic decions every turn. Players use die or card to move on the gameboard and to collect cube parts. They build these parts on their sites and the goal is to be the first one to build a perfect cube of 3 by 3 by 3 cube parts(blocks). If all...
In Bloqueo, a turn always consists of three steps: Move a game figure at least two spaces, Place one of your octagons, and Put two blocking pieces on this octagon. Turn after turn, more and more spaces are occupied with octagonal pieces. In the best case, you connect these spaces into groups – provided that the spaces are orthogonally adjacent. If you even...
Blorp Quest is a fast-paced, asymmetric board game where a party of heroic Blorps faces off against Gildorp the Dread—an ancient golden dragon who's gone completely mad. One player controls Gildorp, wielding terrifying attacks like fire breath, tail whips, and claws. Up to four others play as a team of adorable yet mighty Blorp heroes: the Paladin, the...
In Blorps, two players go head-to-head in a fast, tactical puzzle to outwit their opponent and line up their Blorps. With only four pieces each and a 6x6 board, the goal is deceptively simple: be the first to align all 4 of your Blorps in a row—vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. But here’s the twist: Blorps must move as far as they can in a straight...
In Blütentanz, you want to dance your figures across the blossoms to reach your opponent's side of the field. To set up the game, place the sixteen discs onto the game board at random; each disc features a blossom in the two player colors — orange and blue — as well as a neutral gray blossom. On a turn, rotate all the tiles in a row or column 90º, with any...
From the game's website: Blox is a strategy game played with building blocks such as those manufactured by Lego(TM) and Tyco(TM). Players compete to construct a 3D chain of blocks on a base plate. Very simple rules lead to a surprisingly complex game. The goal of the game is to be the first player to build a chain of their own blocks that connects all four...
Blox comes with a 4x4 wooden board and 16 tiles (8 yellow and 8 orange) marked with a line on the back side. In the basic game the players remove a tile from the edge of the board and then re-insert it on the board from another edge sliding the tiles in between horizontally or vertically. The objective of the game is to connect all 8 tiles of their color...
Get out your forklift! In this diversified building game, the call goes out: Who will use tactics and good luck with the cards to erect the most valuable towers? Who will clear them out and collect the most points? And who will throw the other players from the playing field at the right moment? Blox is a tower-building game in four phases, utilizing cards...
This variant of Nine Men's Morris adds "blocking" positions to the standard board. Each time a player gets three-in-a-row, he removes a piece of his opponent, but also adds a blocking pin to the line with his three-in-a-row. This block then prevents said player from making another three-in-a-row along the same line. This additional element removes some of...
BLUE is a game from the RED, BLUE, GreenGreenerGreenest trilogy. BLUE is a three-coloured tile-laying game for three players. It is a crossbreed of the games RED and Hong, by the same designer. The three colours in the game are white, gray, and blue, and each player will be a different colour. The tiles have the same design as in Hong, but combining those...