Popular in Europe, Janus Chess is played on a 10x8 board using all the standard chessmen plus 2 Janus pieces. These combine the powers of bishop and knight, and are placed in between the rooks and knights on the board (b1 and i1 for white, b8 and i8 for black). The king and queen are reversed compared to FIDE Chess (King on e1 and Queen on f1 for White...
This game is composed by 30 cards divided in 6 suits, each one with 5 cards (values 2-3-4-5-7) On a game only 3 suits will be used, randomly or chosen by the players. On a round each player receives 7 cards and the remaining one is kept hidden. On a turn the starting player plays a card on his side of the player area. The other player must play a card of...
Jaque Quince: Simple rules and short strategic duels inspired by Bauhaus The objective of the game is to play in such a way that your opponent cannot respond to the opening play. Jaque Quince has 3 different suits. Each suit has a reference value with respect to the other suits (i.e., every suit is bigger than another suit). Each suit has 5 cards, and the...
An old Tatarian legend says that Batu Khan, Mongol leader and a grandson of Genghis Khan, always took an extraordinary board game along when he had gone to a war, and carefully hid this game from all trespassers. Batu Khan usually played one game before a battle, just to get into a right warrior mood. The legend does not specify any particular game but it...
A candidate for publication in the 3M Bookshelf Series, but never published in quantity. It is a very simple tile placement game. It is a 2 or 4 player game, the four player rules consisting simply in a tournament. Only about 100 copies of this game were produced; they were all pre-production play test and reviewers' copies and most were subsequently...
JAVELINS is a relative of Amazons Materials 10X10 square board 8 pawns in two colors Supply of sticks (javelins) Play White moves first. Turns then alternate. On a turn do two things. 1. Move your pawn in a straight line across any number of empty squares (orthogonally or diagonally). Pawns cannot move through other pawns. When moving orthogonally pawns...
Jaywalkers is a two player game, played on the spaces of a 8x8 board. 2 pawns in two colors and 62 path tiles. SETUP - Place board between players, pawns start on any space of each player’s respective first rows. PLAY – A player on his turn must take two actions. 1.Place a tile onto an empty space. 2.Move your pawn in a series of one or more rook moves...
World War 2 era game made for the Military. Games is double sided board about 4"X4". Unique cloth strap to tie to leg while playing. I suppose this was for play while riding in Jeeps or other transport. Little cloth pouch is attached to board and holds colored wooden pins. The instruction book gives detailed instructions to play 15 different games and 10...
UNAUTHORIZED PRODUCTION The information that BGG has on this item indicates that Эй! Это моя рыба! is a non-authorized version of Hey, That's My Fish!. According to designer Günter Cornett, Zvezda issued this game without credit to him nor Alvydas Jakeliunas, thus it is set apart from the official entry of Hey, That's My Fish!. Players catch fish by moving...
From the manufacturer: JELLY BEANS, our introductory game for young children, uses counting, number recognition, and very simple addition and subtraction in a progression of skills. The child and the adult opponent compete to be the first to fill-in all of the holes numbered 1 through 12 on their individual number line. JELLY BEANS introduces children to...
The board is one of the most simple: 4 squares in a square. The further material: 13 Dice with different letters on each side. The game is always played in two rounds. In the first one, player A is the "builder", player B the "killjoy", in the second round they change roles. The "builder" begins drawing one die at random and throwing it. His task is it...
Jericho, a strategy game for 2 players OVERVIEWNumber of players: two. Average duration of a game: thirty minutes. Game Board: one octagonal board consisting of two by thirteen (2 x 13) squares and two by thirteen (2 x 13) triangular squares at the edge of the board. Pieces: sixty-three consisting of two by twenty-five (2 x 25) cylindrical pieces of 5...