Joker Go is a Go variant/expansion using a special deck of cards. Each player has an identical deck of 27 cards which show a configuration of Go stones. In the basic game players choose to either play a stone normally or randomly draw and play a Joker Go card. When you play a Joker card, you place the stones shown on the card onto the board in a spot of...
Subtitled "The American Go Game." Campaign! was published in 1961 to reflect on the War Between the States. The game board is made up of squares 18 long and 15 wide, with various "battlefields" interspersed among the blocks. Each player starts with 72 wooden discs. Each turn, a player rolls the dice and adds discs to his or her lines, attempting to...
Introduction1. Conversion Go is a territory game for two players, Black and White, who alternately put stones of their color on the board. 2. The board is a 16x16 grid (counting the points rather than the squares). At the beginning the board is empty, with play taking place on the points. Play3. A corner point is considered to belong to both edges that...
A variant board for the classical game Go, based on a street map of Milton Keynes. Milton Keynes has approximately grid-style plan, but the boundaries of the map are irregular, and there are four places where two "parallel" streets intersect. Other rules are as in normal Go. However, the tactical properties of the irregular boundary majorly affect...
Go Waterloo Combining the elegance and simplicity of a Napoleonic wargame with the gritty realism and historical accuracy of the classic board game Go, Go Waterloo is likely the worst game designed in decades. Improbably playable but lacking in any of the redeeming values of its dual inspirations, only hard core fans of either Go or Waterloo Historical...
"Go-Moku" (Japanese - also spelled "Gomoku") or "wuziqi" (Chinese) is a very old game played with a Go set. The game can also be played on a sheet of graph paper using X's and O's. It is similar in idea to tic-tac-toe, but far greater in scale and complexity. The name means "five points." It is debated whether this game originated in China or Japan, with...
Go-Ball is an adaptation of the board game Go. We have taken the rules of the traditional game of Go, modified the board, and called it the Go-Ball. The Go-Ball, as the name suggests, is based on the game of Go but is played on a ball or globe. Go-Ball comes in a box containing 20 puzzle pieces. Taking pieces one at a time, players fit them together to...
Go Bang Plus is an advancement on the basic game of Go Bang, also known as Go-Moku. The game can be played by two, three, or four players, and players work to get rows of four or five in a row based on the number of players. The game is played in rounds; the winner of each round gets one points and players play to a fixed number of rounds or points. The...
Picture this: a bomb is about to explode and no one wants to be around when it does. The wick is burning and with each card the situation gets more explosive. You and your friends will try to pass this bomb on just like a hot potato. In the deck there are cards that can speed up the detonation or send the bomb far away from you. But, be careful: not every...
Like its predecessor Last Mouse Lost, the playing area of Go Bong! consists of a rubber grid with raised "bumps" that can be pushed down with your fingers. Once all of the bumps have been pressed, you can flip the board over and play again on the other side. To play, two players alternate turns pressing down one or more bumps in the grid, with these bumps...
In this Go-inspired chess variant, players place any one of their pieces on any empty space on the board. However, the opponent's king cannot be put into check or checkmate, and pawns cannot be placed on the opponent's back 4 rows. When all pieces have been placed, begin moving as in normal chess. At this point all regular chess rules apply. Capture your...