French game that translated in English means 'The Game of the Shepherd'. Each player starts with a set of tokens and a set of colored balls with a value varying from one to three. There are also numbered charts that range from two to eight. Each turn the players choose one of their balls and allocate them in to one of the slots in the charts. Each round a...
Easy abstract maze game. Every player start with 4 pawns in one of the four corners. On the board there are lying pieces (shaped like in Blokus). On your turn you can do both of two actions in the order you like: 1. move one of your pawns as far as you like in an orthogonal direction, blocked by obstacles. 2. move 1 piece as far as you like in orthogonal...
Abstract connection game played on a 17x17 board. Each player has a "Manipulator" piece which moves by making a rook move, then dropping a pawn on the square arrived on, then making a second rook move at right angles to the first. On a player's turn they either move their Manipulator in the manner described, or they capture one or more opposing pawns by...
Tactical placement game (inspired by the famous ‘Pont des Trous’ in Tournay, Belgium). Two players or two teams of 2 players try to line up 5 pieces first, horizontally, vertically or diagonally (different types of diagonals are accepted). In certain critical situations (once per round), a player can ask his opponent to roll a die to add a constraint on...
Players try to connect at least two board sides with their team's counters. However, to place a counter on the board, they must win tricks whose cards correspond to the board's spaces—the more valuable the card, the better positioned the space. Before play starts, players bid how many board sides they can connect with possible help from a partner or...
Le Super Morpion Tournant (The Great Turning Tic Tac Toe) is a "tri-dimensional turning tactical game" according to the label on the side of the game box. The game is 3D four-in-a-row game with some distinct differences from the common forms such as Score Four: The game is for two or four players. The game box contains a brief rule sheet in French, a game...
Le Synapse is a two-player abstract game played 4×4 square board. It was designed to be played with materials commonly found at home: Draw the 4×4 board on paper, making the spaces large enough to host matches. The first player places one to three matches in a space, pointing orthogonally at another empty space on the board. This is where the second player...
Le Val is a game of memory and strategy. It's form is one book of 130 pages entitled "Le Testament de Sinloss" ("Sinloss' Will") which describes the universe and explains the rules. It is played with a classic 54 card deck (The standard 52-card deck + 1 black Joker and 1 red joker). Each player is a Star and will use his card to invoke entities and attack...
Le Val III : Le Maître des Sphères (The Master of the Spheres) is the second extension of "Le Val" Its form is one book of 126 pages. It complete the game rules with new elements, some variantes and strategic tips (overture, classic formations,...) The narrator is Helios (the Sun, the big bad guy) of the story. You have to get Le Val II (the first...
This game of French origin derives its name from the French names of the wind directions West-North-East (Ouest-Nord-Est) and is played on a circular board showing four arms, like the vanes of a windmill. Each such arm consists of three paths of seven cases, leading up to a eighth case (one per path) which is located on a mounted, turnable disc in the...
Last night, your village was undermined by an authoritarian state. Some villagers had time to flee into the hills, others are imprisoned in the village. Luckily, you, the local child, are a mine-clearer. Your objective is to save the twelve villagers. The Village is a single-player game halfway between Solitaire and Minesweeper. It's played with a...