Blue and Gray was granted a patent in 1903, but possibly was not published until Sid Sackson included it in A Gamut of Games In Blue and Gray, each player begins with 17 guards and one captain set up on the line intersections of a 9 × 9 grid board. The object of the game is to advance the captain to the center of the board following an outlined path of 17...
Blue Chip is played on a 8x8 square board. On each turn each player must do the next two things: 1. Pass or move one of his stones as a "runaway queen" (i.e., to the last empty cell in any direction, but not to any closer square), if and only if the stone is orthogonally adjacent to a neutral blue stone at the start of its move. 2. Pass or move a neutral...
Equipment: A 61-cell hexagonal board (5 spaces per side) and a large supply of stones, all of one color (blue works nicely.) On each turn, each player drops a stone on an empty cell adjacent to the last dropped stone, but not adjacent to any other stone. The player without any valid moves, loses. You can think of your mission as finding the source of the...
A Civil War themed diceless strategy game played on an 8x8 grid or chess board. Each player builds a custom army of sixteen units composed of a General and an assortment of five other regiment sized units: Cavalry, Infantry, Riflemen, Artillery, and Mortar. Optional rules are provided for terrain (hills and forts), elite units, experienced units, and...
Two fleets clash in a fast paced and exciting game of naval and air combat for two players - or up to four players if two sets of the game are used, Each player tries to find his opponent's ships, hidden within sea cards - and sink them before his opponent do the same. The game is played with two sets of 'sea' cards arrayed in 5 stacks of 7 cards each - a...
Bluestone is played by placing black and whites stones on a special pentagonal grid marked by "blue stones" on the perimeter. The goal is to connect to as many blue stones as you can using your own playing stones. BLUESTONE RULES Placement: The first player on turn 1 places a single stone into any empty cell. Thereafter, starting with turn 1 for the second...
In Blume, players plant and grow their own flowerbed by placing matching tiles. After each round, players will prune their gardens to prepare for future growth. Players decide to increase their greenhouse supply or affect the local market, ultimately determining the value of everyone's greenhouse. At the end of three rounds, the player with the most...
Boar Hunt:The Dark Ages Game is a game that appears simple at first glance because there are only 9 spots on the board and 8 playing pieces which all remain on the board during the game after they've been placed. Boar Hunt has two teams of 3 Dark Ages "Hunters" and a "Wild Boar". One player plays the red set and the other plays the white set. The object of...
Breakfast Shy postcard game, include in May 2023 Board Game of the Month Club Postcard package. Very light game rules, a game that could be on the back of a cereal box! Fill in squares with icons to form contiguous groups. The bigger the groups of your icon, the more points you’ll score. Each player chooses one of the 4 icons. Players take turns adding...
Boardcraft is a modular board building and manipulation game. Set in an eclectic fantasy world, players build a board during the game, but can also change the board throughout the game. The board is consisted of 3x3 tiles with a random assortment of different terrains on them, including grass, water, marsh, boulder and lava. Each player can also change the...