A variant of games where you need to build a line of pieces to win. In this game you must be first to create a line of five pieces. Each player starts with 20 discs in his own colour. Players alternate to place pieces on to the board. The game ends when any one player has a winning line. However, if no-one has a winning line after all 40 pieces are on the...
The Game of Flying Obelisks is played on a 9x9 board with two raised 3x3 "hills." Each player has a set of 17 pieces of 8 different types, and there are also 5 neutral obelisks. On a turn a player moves a piece according to its specific movement rules. Moving to a space occupied by an enemy piece captures it. Moving to a space occupied by a friendly piece...
The Game of Football produced by Parker Brothers in 1880 features a picture of young boys playing a game that looks a bit like sandlot football. The game comes with a number of colored pieces that represent players and by jumping over players each team tries to score goals. As a version of late-1800s football, this game would be completely different from...
Players take turns turning gates and moving pieces within the open paths created. The game is won by players moving their piece to the opposing players base, or by pinning the opposing players piece. The game takes place on a 10x10 grid board with 45 gates. Player's bases are located in the far left corner of the back rows on each side of the board. Pieces...
"Here collected for the first time is a compendium of Surrealist games, strategies, and procedures. It is for those who wish to employ for themselves the techniques of Surrealist inquiry and discovery; it sets out the rules and directions for playing the games. There has been nothing like it: much of the material gathered here has been previously...
Two to four players play cross-shaped pieces to form pairs, triples, or four-in-a row of identical symbols. The more combinations formed, the more the player scores. Each player has 12 cross pieces in their color. Players shuffle their tiles and form a face-up stack in front of them. In turn, each player takes the top piece from the stack and plays it to...
Each player is in control of four ‘frogs’. Starting side by side, one for each player on the numbered spaces of 1 thru 4, players begin. They take turns spinning the spinner that is numbered one thru eight and also shows outlines of frogs on each of its numbers. After spinning the arrow, the player can choose the number, at either end of the arrow, to move...
Featured in the book Games We Play as an example of an early game from Nuremberg. The game appears to be a four person game of checkers played on cross with 33 holes, and the playing pieces are pins about the size of golf tees. The board is actually the lid of a wooden box that holds the pieces. Unlike other games from this early 1800's Nuremberg period...
Pathfinders is a game for two to four players. Players roll one die from a dice cup and move a small colored piece around the oval path. Beginning on the farthest path from middle, a player strives to reach the central space first. A player, when landing on a space with an arrow pointing to an inner loop, moves towards the middle. In order to win, he must...