Investars is a collaborative game, where players work together to collectively achieve Big Goals, accumulate money in their retirement savings account, use their individual salaries to Invest in companies, and try to get all their pieces back Home to retire and win. Investars is played in rounds, each simulating a decade in your life. The team starts in...
This is game #12 the Games on Half a Checkerboard Series In this game, players have the simple goal of being the first player to get all their pieces on the board. Players try to prevent their opponents from accomplishing this, by either performing custodial captures or jumps over pieces, with either of these moves causes pieces of their opponent to go...
Invictus – Latin, meaning “unconquered”. 2 player abstract game played on the spaces of a 9x9 board. Each player has 18 dice pieces, one set black the other white. Setup Place the 9x9 board between the players. Next, players turn 3 of their 18 dice pieces so that the top faces show all ones then 3-twos, 3-threes, 3-fours, 3-fives and 3-sixes. Now Black...
A pencil-and-paper game for up to 4 players. You need a 6 x 6 board to be placed in the centre of play. The board should be noted as A to F horizentally and as 1 to 6 vertically. It is then left in the centre as a quick reference for each player to know where each of their pieces are standing. Each player will have 3 Warriors and 1 King. Each player takes...
In INYO, you will demonstrate your mastery of balance and unbalancing by knocking your opponent out of the arena or forcing them into submission. To do so, take steps with your dice as if they were your feet. Manage your footwork effectively, striking a calculated balance between gentle agility and explosive power. Engage in measured collisions to throw...
IQ-5 is a clever 5-in-line game where players sit on either side of a vertical grid with holes for pegs. Each player has 10 pegs each in three-color combinations: red/yellow, red/blue, and blue/yellow. Each turn, a player places a peg into one of the grid holes so that one color shows on his side and the other color on his opponent's side. The first player...
Iqishiqi (pronounced EE-chee-shee-chee) is an abstract strategy game designed by Joao Neto that is played on a hexagonal board composed of hexagonal cells. Players own designated edges of the board, and by clever placement of stones they push a neutral stone around the board. A player wins if he/she moves the neutral stone to one of his/her edges, or...
The iQube Boardgame & Puzzle is our original award winning three dimensional mind challenge, comprising of four strategic boardgames and a deceptively simple looking puzzle. It was only available for sale in Australia and New Zealand, but miQube is available from the Mindware catalog. * Silver Honour Medal from the Parents' Choice Foundation (USA) *...
Irensei is a mixture of Go and Gomoku played on a Go Board (19x19). Players win the game by getting seven stones in a row of their color. In addition, they may capture and eliminate enemy stones in the same way that is done in Go. The winning condition is to have seven in a row, vertically, diagonally, or horizontally, if and only if all these stones are...