A fun little colour one page Cheapass Games game that was given away at GenCon 1998. Features artwork by Phil Foglio. Designed at the height of Magic: The Gathering, it is designed to make use of all those extra 'Land' cards, hence the name. Board spaces are colour coded to match the five Magic land colours. Players begin with a token on each of five...
This is a race game playable on a Byzantine Chessboard. Players roll a die and move one of their pieces. Players have a different piece in a different lane and attempt to navigate their pieces home. In the dice version, each player has 4 pieces, one of which fits into each lane (4 of the rows), and each piece faces off against a single enemy piece. The...
In Laniakea, you want to move across the Hawaiian beach, but you can't disturb the turtles...who keep moving and possibly disrupting your plans. To set up, place your eight colored tokens on your side of the wooden game board, then select 25 of the 28 domino-style wooden tiles and place 24 of them in the six rows of the game board, four tiles per row. Each...
In this Polish game the players try to get into the middle of the board. Moving and capturing are like in checkers, however there are some interesting twists: Players can move over their own stone to built a defense more carefully. In the middle of the Board there is an area where the same stones can be played by both partners to create momentum. And the...
Introduction:Lanquia (from Spanish: Flanking, which means "flanking") is a drawless game for two players: Black and White. It is played on the intersections (points) of an initially empty hexagonal board. The recommended size is 9 points per side, but boards of 7 or 11 are also valid. Each player has access to a sufficient supply of their own colored...
A game by Lewis Carroll published in 1893, but invented 1878 with available versions from 1880 and 1881, too. This Game requires a chess or draughts board, 5 men of one color and 5 of another (later 8 of each colour) - chess-pawns, draughts, or counters - and 9 pieces of card, cut to the size of a square, to serve as markers. Carroll himself suggests to...
The harvest is in, and the artisans are hard at work preparing for the upcoming festival. Decorate the palace lake with floating lanterns and compete to become the most honored artisan when the festival begins. In Lanterns: The Harvest Festival, players have a hand of tiles depicting various color arrangements of floating lanterns, as well as an inventory...
The goal of Lanza is to capture as many of your opponents' pieces as possible. Each player has three pieces, Jacks, Queens and Kings. Kings defeat Queens, Queens defeat Jacks, Jacks defeat Kings. Movement is chosen simultaneously and takes place on a board of hexagons. The game is won by the player who first achieves three victory chips. (One victory chip...
A game for two players by Alain Couchot and Bernard Klein Winner of the Golden Pawn at the 1997 Boulogne Billancourt Game Design Competition (under the name Tor) COMPONENTS An 8 × 8 gameboard of 64 neutral spaces. 4 rings (2 white and 2 black). 64 color discs (16 blue, 16 purple, 16 orange, 16 yellow). OVERVIEW Each player has two rings to move on the...
Lap was published in Sid Sackson's A Gamut of Games and was described by him as a second or third cousin to the well-known pencil and paper game Battleship. Each player secretly draws dividing lines on a grid of 8x8 cells, creating four sectors of exactly 16 squares. Players then take turns gathering clues by asking how many cells in a particular 2x2...