Kâra is a mancala game, which is played by the Bagara in Kordofan Province, Sudan, primarily during the fasting month of Ramadan. It was first described by R. Davies in 1925. The counters are generally small balls of dried clay, called tûb ("bricks"). A hole can become very full of balls, with the result that it is difficult to foresee the effect of moving...
A quick little abstract strategy where players take turns placing buildings in a growing city. There are 7 rules that make placing buildings a little tricky (e.g. no buildings of the same type next to each other). When you place a building, you gain points in the colors that you placed your piece next to. At the end of the game, double the color you scored...
As Grade Two monastery initiates in Karesansui – the cutthroat game of Zen gardening – it will be your great honor to tend the Masters' rock gardens. Each morning the Grade Ones arrive with rocks they've gathered, then haul away the rocks that you don't need anymore – but there aren't enough Grade One initiates to go around, so there will be competition...
Karesansui: Weeds, an expansion for Karesansui, puts an extra challenge in your effort to tend the Masters' rock gardens and create pleasing arrangements of stones. During set-up, place the five wooden weed tokens in the bag along with the stones. When drawing stones from the bag, if you draw a weed, place it with the pile of rocks that you're currently...
Kariba and Kalak are 2 different games by Frank Stark that come in one box. Both can be played using the same components. Kariba, the main game, is a 2 player variant inspired by the Mancala game family. Kalak is a Marbles variant, or rather, a pebble-flicking dexterity game whose arena is created by assembling the 2 piece jigsaw board in an alternative...
This is an updated version of the ancient game of the same name. Kariuchi is a race game using four 2-sided dice (4D2). "Kari" refers to the two-sided dice and "uchi" refers to casting them. The basic game is a 2-player game, in which both players try to move their 4 pieces along the path according to the dice rolls and try to reach the goal with their...
Use The New Rock, Paper, Scissors Mechanic To Score! You can travel down life through good deeds or bad deeds, but karma will follow you either way. In Elemental Battle, your best tactic is to collect that bad karma now and give it to your opponents to get the win. This 4th entry into the Karma Crystals game collection adds a rock, paper, scissors mechanic...
Description from the publisher: Your goal in Karma Mini Round is to get rid of all your cards, although in this elimination game everyone wins except for the last player holding cards. Each turn, you must play a card of equal or higher number to avoid picking up the entire discard pile. Move through your cards faster by playing doubles. The deck includes...
"One of the seven wonders of the world" This one to six-player strategy game uses the floor plan of the hypo style room of the temple of Amun at Karnak as its board, roughly 16×5. Stacking is involved --I have no idea beyond that. Players can form teams, and two players can even collaborate in solving the solitaire game. Check out the beautiful board at...