Be sure to check your skis at the front desk! From acclaimed designer Peter McPherson (Tiny Towns, Fit To Print) comes Lodge, a spatial puzzle game set in the beautiful Swiss Alps. Draft room tiles from a Tetris-like display and place them on matching floors to attract guests to your lodge. Gain bonus points for placing those guests on their preferred...
Publisher's description of this new hex-tile game scheduled to debut at Essen 2008: "Logan Stones is a two player strategic game that encourages memory and tactical thinking. It is played without a board, using 18 tactile pieces that are etched and painted on both sides with different symbols. The game has simple rules that are based on the visually...
Four rival lumberjacks are competing to chop down the most trees for their business. However, standing in their way are tree-hugging hippies protesting the deforestation. Logger is an Icehouse game that's played with up to 6 stashes and a 5x5 board. Players must plant, grow and chop down trees for points. They can also hinder their opponents' efforts by...
A card game of logical matching and mental gymnastics for one to four players. Win bytes by finding correct matches between symbols using the Boolean operations AND, OR, NOR and XOR – and their opposites. There are three different ways to play: the Speed Game is about finding matches quickly, the Strategy Game requires thought and planning, and the Solo...
Logical Curling is an abstract game that simulates the game of Curling. Players roll and reroll dice, to try and obtain specific patterns, similar to poker hands, which determine the movement of stones. The higher scoring patterns give players access to more powerful and flexible trajectories - but there are rules that prevent the game from becoming a luck...
An intriguing little game, in a pocket format. You place balls of your colour on a grid frame. Or on top of other balls --as long as you own a majority of the four balls on top of which you're placing. You win by having the topmost ball when no more placements are possible. I suspect there may be a Nim-like winning strategy, as the game is completely...
The idea of the game is based on the organization of a worldwide transfer of goods. From the editor: "In Logistics’ the two players are managers of competitive companies. They have to use tactics and control to plan a build up optimum routes of transport for delivering their goods to the destination. Both players may use the routes of transport of the...
Logistix is about combining logistics and logic. In a large container terminal, as the leader of a forklift crew, you have to make sure that the right containers get onto your ship. Each ship must be loaded according to a certain loading plan and following certain rules, so that the unloading of the cargo at the destination port runs efficiently. As if...
A chess-style abstract strategy game played on a pyramid of four boards: 12x12, 8x8, 5x5 and 1x1. Each player has a pyramid (king), a cube (rook), a cylinder (bishop), a double-pawn (knight) and 44 pawns, and the winner is the player whose pyramid ascends to the fourth (1x1) board. The game starts with each player's pyramid, cube, cylinder and 12 pawns...