Rules are provided for five jumping and number games, four categories of jumping and number puzzles to play on the 6x6 grid. Activities with chess knights' moves and magic squares are especially interesting. A major section is devoted to Wade Philpott's "Leap Solitaire," cited in Oxford University Press' The Ins and Outs of Peg Solitaire. The 36 numbered...
A mini game for 2 players by David Smith Published in Plato magazine Before You Start Draw a large circle and place 9 circular spaces at equal intervals around the circle. One player uses 4 small silver coins as pieces. The other player uses 4 small bronze coins. The Play Each player in turn places one of their pieces on the playing board until all but one...
This is a childrens game that is based on Connect Four. The box contains a school bus shaped board, an alphabet road, 106 tokens and an instruction book. The tokens are divided into four different colors. Each color of token has a different picture set. These sets include shapes of various sizes and colors, letters with both uppercase and lowercase of...
A Chinese Checkers-style game From website; Start: 10 stones of their own color for each player on the triangular sections whose point is the center of a side of the board Play: Take turns jumping any one of your stones over another stone directly next to it, to an empty intersection immediately on the other side of the stone being jumped, on the same...
Leaper is a game with a simple objective-- get your pawn/Leaper to the other side of the board before your opponent. That being the case, one tricky movement is required-- the Leap, which involves moving your pawn among another set of game pieces under your control (i.e., your transporter pads) ... you cannot simply move your pawn to any empty space, as is...
Leapfrog is one of those games about whose origins we know very little. It was invented some time before 1898, as the game historian H. J. R. Murray invented his own variation on it in that year. It is an unusual game in that any number of people can play, almost without limit. It is played on a square grid, whose size is 15 to 18 squares on a side. It is...
Leapfrog is an alquerque-style game played on a square board of 97 spaces in a complex pattern. Each player has a Frog King and 8 Frog Pawns and the winner is the first player to get their Frog King to the central space. Each player on their turn moves one piece a series of "leaps" — each leap being over exactly one occupied or unoccupied space. If the...
In the bogs and swamps of planet Blorp, a species of Blorps evolved powerful hind legs and fierce tactical instincts. These are the Leaplorps, and they're ready to bounce into battle. Fast, nimble, and strategic, Leaplorps is a tactical elimination game about positioning, chaining leaps, and surprise captures. In this Checkers-type game, each player can...
IntroductionLear is a finite territory game for two players: Black and White. It's played on the intersections (points) of an initially empty square board. The suggested board sizes are between 7x7 and 10x10 points. DefinitionsTo flip a stone means to replace it with a stone of the opposite color. PlayBlack plays first, then turns alternate. On their turn...
This is an abstract game played with a chess board and Icehouse Pieces where the object is to get your pieces to the opposite corner of the board as quickly as possible. It has some of the feel of Chinese Checkers, but with the added complications of the possibility of your opponent being able to immobilize your pieces, and you being able to carry your...
In Leaves, players race to complete a stack of autumn leaves by selecting one of the three cards in their hand and combining it with the eight face-up cards on the table. Leaves are layered according to their shared features, and because every card is unique—defined by its leaf type, color, and number—players must quickly spot the correct arrangement. All...