Lateral Thinking is a game for two players or two teams. Each player has six arrows and one defender. The board consists of 126 squares (14x9). The essence of the game is that the ball counter bounces off your own arrows and gets stopped by opposing arrows.The aim is to carve your way through your opponent's defense to score goals (a sort of abstract...
Latice is a strategy game where you match tiles by color and shape. The game comes with a game board, stones, and acrylic tiles. Most of the tiles contain one of six images (e.g., turtle, leaf, lizard, dolphin) in one of six colors. There are also a few special wind tiles. The game is for 2-4 players, who will evenly split the tiles. You win by being the...
For eons, Pele fought Mo’o for dominion over Hawai’i. Mo’o summoned the elements and the animals of Hawai’i to create an insurmountable challenge. Do you have what it takes to become the champion of Hawai’i? In Latice Hawai’i, players take turns laying tiles that each present an animal and an element. Tile placement requires the animal or element to match...
Work with other players to create a map of the realm, but only the most accurate player will take the glory. Latitude takes place on a blank map which slowly develops as the game goes. Each turn a player places a land type on a location (sea, plains or mountain), and places a marker showing big they believe that location will be when the map is completed....
This game was created by Jennifer Diane Reitz to make part of her fictional universe of Pastel Defender Heliotrope. It is based on the ancient game of latrunculi or latrunculorum, where players try to eliminate all the opponent's pieces using a "flanking movement" (i.e. pieces surrounding the captured piece in opposite sides). There's little information...
Classical Latrunculi (Ludus latrunculorum or the Game of Little Soldiers) was an ancient strategy game played throughout the Roman Empire (27 BC - 1453 AD). Latrunculi XXI is a variation of the ancient Roman game, expanding on the classical rules and adding new tactics which allow a modern 'XXI' (a.k.a. 21st) century player to force a win on his/her...
Objective Occupy all four corners of a square on the 6 x 6 grid. The winning square can be of any size (1 x 1, 2 x 2, 3 x 3, 4 x 4, 5 x 5, or 6 x 6), but must line up with the gridlines. Diamond shapes do not count. Game Play This is a two player game. Each player takes a turn placing a stone on an intersection on the grid. Black moves first, and can place...
Lau kata kati (or Lau Kati Kata) is a two-player abstract strategy game from India, specifically from Lower Bengal, United Provinces, Karwi Subdivision where it is called Kowwu Dunki. The game is related to Draughts and even more so to Alquerque. Pieces are captured by hopping over them, and the board is composed of two triangle grids. It is the same game...
IntroductionLauba (from Proto-Germanic: laubą, meaning "leaf") is a strategy game for two players: Dark Green and Light Gree . It is played on the hexes (cells) of an initially empty hexagonal board. The recommended size is 7 cells per side, but boards of 5 or 9 cells are also valid. Each player has a sufficient supply of stones of their color....
Introduction:Launiz (from Proto-Germanic: laubinassuz, meaning "leafiness") is a drawless annihilation game for two players: Dark green and Light green. It is played on the hexes (cells) of an initially empty hexagonal board. The recommended size is 6 cells per side, but boards of 5 or 7 cells are also valid. Each player has a sufficient supply of stones...
Two to six family tribes from the planet Laura get bored with their own planet and set off to find a bigger and better home in outer space. Not much later, they all descend on an unspoiled planet which they call Laura-2. The land grab and inter-tribal bickering starts as soon they settle into, and on to, their new home. A simple abstract placement game for...