Nickel is a perfect-information strategy game for two players designed to be played with Looney Pyramids. A 5×5 grid is randomly filled at the beginning of the game with 25 pyramids, each of which consists of a unique combination of color and orientation (N, E, W, S, standing-up). Players then alternate turns removing one of the pyramids on the board and...
Free Cheapass Game that appeared in the September 2002 issue of Game Trade Magazine. You need to supply 5 counters of one color, 7 of another color and 13 of a third color. In turn, place any available counter on any empty space. Score a point for every adjacent counter of the same color. Most points win. Similar to Putwoody's Castle. Illustrated with...
Don’t just the thought of forest fires scare you? Most wildfires are caused by careless humans and putting them out is hard. Imagine what happens when a mischief-maker like Kirik Veera knowingly sets fires to forests? Enter Kutty and his team of forest Rangers, out there to save the forest and its wildlife. They will do all it takes to put out those fires...
Vol de Nuit (Night Flight) is inspired by the masterpiece of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The game is meant as a tribute to Saint-Exupéry’s work, and was realized in partnership with the Fondation Saint-Exupéry. Fly through the night until you see the first light of the day, or sink into the dark ocean of a dawnless flight. In this cooperative game from 2 to...
Night Grain is a team-based boardgame for 4 to 6 players divided into two teams (the Humans and the Elves). Players compete both for personal high score and for a team victory. Points are scored by collecting grain markers of six different types (amaranth, barley, buckwheat, rye, spelt, and wheat), with more points scored if you have larger numbers of a...
Command a Greek city's hoplite soldiers. Push and rout enemy lines. Coordinate allied attacks to secure victory, but watch your flanks! Nika, inspired by ancient Greek geography & warfare, is based around two core mechanisms: facing and formations. Pieces can be routed off the board if attacked from the side or back, but not from the front. A routed piece...
This expansion includes new variants of play and a sticker sheet with 24 stickers, 6 stickers for each color, which are attached to the back of the playing pieces. Variant 1 - Adds a General that may order adjacent pieces to move/rotate as a free action per turn. Variant 2 - Adds a Hero with the strength & weight of 2 men. Variant 3 - Adds the Fury that...
In the game of Nile, you and your opponent are rival builders of the great pyramids, using your workers to collect resources and build pyramids. Nile is a 2-player worker placement game where players compete for resources and workers in order to build the best and most pyramids. Played with Icehouse pyramids, Nile is one of the first Euro-style games to...
Generally, the game of Nim is a two-player game of perfect information in which there are some number of rows or "heaps" of objects, and a legal move consists of removing any number of objects from a single heap. (For a non-trivial game, we should start with at least three heaps.) In "standard play", the player who cannot make a move on his turn (because...