User Summary This checker variant features a standard checker board surrounded by a three deep starting space for each of the 4 players. Play proceeds in the familiar checkers mode with the added complication that one faces challenges from opponents on the left and right, as well as from the one across the table. Game features playing pieces in blue, red...
A Classic Game for the Millennium. The Simplicity of Checkers. The Challenge of Chess. Never the Same Game Twice. Checkers 2000 combines the simple rules of the game of checkers with the strategic thinking of chess. This is a new variant of the classic game where the object is to jump and capture your opponent's number 12 game piece. Game set up options...
An ancient Chinese folk tale recounts that the Jade Emperor once held a feast to which he invited all the animals of the forest. Only twelve showed up. To reward his guests, the Jade Emperor announced that he would name a year of the Zodiac after each. The animals were all duly honored. But then the question of order arose. The Ox, the brawniest of all the...
Color Checkers "Finally, a game more challenging than checkers but easier than chess" There are two primary team colors - white and black. On one side, the crown side, the color is solid white or black. On the other side there are four different colors - blue, red, green, and yellow. There are four single colored, six bi-colored, and two quad-colored...
This is the game of checkers with superheroic powers. Each side has 7 superheroes among their checkers: Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Hawkgirl, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, and The Flash. There are 3 variants descibing how to use these powers: one has them activating powers once they are kinged, another has the superheroes open to both players, and...
Originally called 'Dammen voor 4'. Translated box text: Checkers for 4 is much more than just checkers: young, old, novice or expert, everybody can play! Play individually or 2-against-2 and prepare for a dynamic family game full of surprises... 1. Everybody's in! Whether playing with two, three or four players, everybody is in with Checkers for 4! Ideal...
From Zillions of Games "Pieces move diagonally but capture orthogonally. This is so as to combine the forced progression of diagonal checkers with the richness of the orthogonal game. Object: Capture all your opponent's pieces ("Checkers" or "Kings") by jumping over them, or stalemate the opponent so he has no moves. Checkers can move diagonally forward...
This is a checkers variant using an 8x8 board that is viewed as a torus: column A is adjacent to column H and row 1 is adjacent to row 8. Thus, for example, a piece on 1.a3 can move to h4. GOAL: to be the only player with pieces on the dark squares (called "heaven," light squares are called "hell.") SET UP: starting position is for a standard game, 12...
This game is a game in the Checkers family, playable on a Byzantine Chessboard. In the game players will advance checkers that stay in a lane when moving, and may end up switching lanes when performing a jump capture. A piece may also switch lanes if it promotes to a King piece. On a Byzantine chess board, it has 4 rows and 16 columns. Pieces stay in the...
Queens and Kings ...A Checkers Game is an abstract strategy game for 2 or 4 players that plays like checkers and in addition introduces a queen component that throws strategy out the door on each and every move. The game can be played in either two player or team mode. More about the game: The Queen, being tired of a male dominated game that either...
Checkers taken to the next level, you control two armies as you navigate across this checkerboard, The yellow army plays on the colored squares and the black army on the black square, Yellow and black play completely separately until one becomes a KING. Kings either yellow or black can attack each other. We added dice to regulate the play. One die tells...