Gosix is an abstract strategy game played on a 7 hexagons board. You're trying to control 4 of the 7 hexagons. The trick is: whenever you get control over a hexagon, you lose some of the pawns that made you win. Players take turns placing a pawn on the board. You must discover how to win while losing as few pawns as possible, or "help" your opponent to win...
Game description from the publisher: Seize your friends' pawns in this delightful game of capture with two unique ways to play! "Brainy" Got'Em! offers the strategic challenge of outsmarting and cornering your opponents with deliberately placed walls, while the tricky yet fun-for-all-ages "Bright" Got'Em! has the same goal of trapping your opponents, plus...
All you have to do is get five objects and bring them home. But then you discover you'll have to navigate waterways and toll roads, and you can't go there without a pass. And you have to figure out the best route to take based on the roll of the die. And while Action cards can help you, they can also help your opponents, and even snatch defeat from the...
Three dimensional abstract game. The board is plastic and stands between the players (as the Connect 4 board does). In a turn, a player may either: Drop a disc into the board; or... Move the current discs by operating a slide at the side. Thus, you may add to the board or manipulte discs already in the board. The winner is the first player to get three...
GOTA is a two-player abstract strategy game played on a hexagonal board. Players use stones in four colors: Orange and Teal for one player, Black and White for the other. Objective: Connect the most stones in one of your colors by the end of the game. Setup: 1. Start with an empty board. 2. Players take turns placing one stone each until four stones are on...
Gotcha! is played on a 5x5 grid. Each player has a set of pieces numbered 1-25. On each turn one player places a piece face-down in a column or row and the other then places a piece face-down in a row or column so that the intersection of the two is an empty square. The numbers are revealed and both pieces are placed in the square with the higher on top...
Gotcha is a board game created in the 1980's by a division of a jewelery company (Roset by Reid) based in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. The goal of the game is to create rows of 5 chips in your color across a board divided up into rows of colored and numbered squares. On his turn, the player will play one of 5 cards from his hand of cards, each of which...
The gameboard is made of molded plastic and consists of raised islands connected by a series of raised paths. Some paths allow two-way traffic; other only allow one-way traffic. Players choose to be either hunters or fugitives. The object for the fugitives is to make their way across the gameboard. The hunters are trying to capture the fugitives before...
Playable using Othello and Go pieces, Gothello involves capturing tiles but plays uniquely. The game is set up by placing 16 reversible tiles on an 8x8 board to form 8 separated pairs - each pair containing one white and one black tile. The first player places a stone of their colour on any free space and players then take turns to either place two stones...
In 1874, Henry Bird proposed a chess variant on an 10x8 board with additional pieces; one with the combined movements of the rook and the knight, and the other with the movements of the bishop and the knight. In the first half of the twentieth century, world chess champion Jose Raul Capablanca (1888-1942) apparently improved on Bird's variant by...
A portable take on Otrio, there are three ways to win this abstract-strategy game: Get three circular pieces of your color in a row in either ascending or descending order; get the same sized pieces in a row; or get three concentric pieces in the same space. Publisher's description: "The award-winning game, Otrio, now comes in the new on-the-go version...
An Icelandic Christmas game where you play as all of the Icelandic Santas (Yes, ALL of them, which means around 80) In this game, you either give out shoes, or presents, and your goal is to get "rid" of all your presents. In the beginning everyone gets a certain amount of presents they want to get rid of. Then, during the game you draw cards, you either...