User summary Glasgow is an abstract game using glass tiles, for 3 players only. Some rules are adopted from Go, like placement restrictions and the Ko rule (hence the name Glass + Go = Glasgow). The designer feels the new rules make the game acceptable to advanced players. The glass tiles are placed on a 6 x 6 grid. All tiles should be adjacent to other...
Glass Bead is a territory game for two players: Red and Blue. It is played on the spaces of an initially empty square board. Recommended sizes are between 7x7 and 10x10 spaces. An empty space is controlled by the player with more stones adjacent to it. Diagonal adjacencies also count. A space occupied by a stone is controlled by the owner of that stone....
The Glass Bead Game was created by the Dutch game inventor Christian Freeling in the late 1970s. It was named after the final novel of the German writer Hermann Hesse which was published in 1943 ("Das Glasperlenspiel"). Hesse was put on the Black List of the Nazis while living as a refugee in Switzerland. After continental Europe was liberated, Hesse was...
GLE'X (brief for 'trianGLE EXpertise') is a mental challenge. The board is made up of a number of differently colored and sized triangles. The opponents move their 8 pieces with the goal to advance to the end position or to reduce the number of the opponent's pieces to fewer then four. Forming triangles is part of the strategy. The 'hot zone' makes play...
Absorb your enemy, but don't get eaten by a Grue. An abstract strategy game for Looney pyramids of capture and maneuver. From the Icehousegames.org background: "Battles on the savage gleeb homeworld are fought in deadly arenas. Two groups of gleebs enter, each aiming to absorb the enemy before meeting that grisly fate themselves. Further adding to the...
Gliss is an intricate game of strategy for two players, Red and Blue. In Gliss, players place down bases, deploy fleets of flying shapes and claim enemy stones to establish new bases and control towers. Unlike similar games in this family, such as 1972’s Realm, the game uses the simplest of generic equipment, allowing it to be played easily by anyone. This...
Positional strategy game originally authored for the Piecepack system where 2-4 players strive to connect a die or pawn orthogonally with a group of exactly five coins (orthogonally connected as well); this group must fulfil an extra condition (two coins matching the suit of the die, three coins matching the suit of the pawn). The setup is the same for all...
Game produced by Identity Games Int. at the request of the dutch army. Its for 2-4 players and take 1-2 hours. The gameboard shows different countries where peacekeeping-operations can be done. Each peacekeeping-operation has 3 different sub-missions (Humanitary-aid, Peace-keeping, Peace-enforcing). When landing on a country the player takes a Oppertunity...
Global Chess is pure chess with 64 squares, traditional pieces and traditional moves. The game of chess was developed when armies fought on open fields in distinct formations and the entire battle could be seen from a single vantage point. As warefare and technology have advanced, battles are fought over the limb of the horizon with no edges to the...