Node is a sister work to Skirt. Like Skirt, the active player places a pair of pieces in the outer and inner areas, but in Node, the second piece is placed in a space in the inner area that is on the same line as the two pieces in the outer area. The victory condition is also the same as in Skirt, if you can connect one of the opposite sides with your...
Node ball is an abstracted sports game, where you're trying to bounce one of three balls in the game through an opponents goal area. You have several pieces that can move in varying ways to "kick" the ball, which then roll as far as the kicking piece moved in the opposite direction. The game continues until all balls have scored, and the player with the...
Nodes is a strategy game for two or four players. The game board is octagonal, and each space is the intersection of a horizontal, vertical, and two diagonal lines. There are thus eight lines emanating out from each space in the manner of a compass rose. There are two types of pieces: nodes and units. Nodes are akin to the king in Chess. They only can move...
NoGo is a combinatorial game for two players: Black and White. It is played on the intersections (points) of an initially empty square or rectangular grid (board). Board sizes bigger than 9×9 are not recommended. 6×7 boards have been used in some human matches. NoGo takes the Go concepts of group and liberty and uses them in the most minimalistic possible...
Nohane is a drawless connection game for two players: Black and White. It is played on the intersections (points) of an initially empty square grid (board). The top and bottom edges of the board are colored black; the left and right edges are colored white. Some definitions: A hard corner is a 2×2 area with two like-colored, diagonally adjacent stones, one...
Nomids is a fast, introductory Looney Pyramid game. A Nomids set contains one trio (a small, a medium, and a large pyramid) of ten different colors and a custom lightning die. To play, each player takes a trio made up of three different colors, with any remaining pyramids forming the bank. In turn, players roll the lightning die, which lets them dump...
Nominoes & Trickets is a tile-based game that shares some similarities with Tri-Ominos and Trimino. Its red plastic tiles (56 in the 1960s edition, 36 in the 1980s edition) are triangles with zero to five white dots along each side (not in the tile’s corners). In the game’s main variant, "Nominoes", players draw tiles to decide who places the opening tile...
Nonaga has a hexagonal playing area composed of 19 rings, with each player having three pieces that start in alternating vertices around the hexagon. On a turn, a player must do two things, in order: Move one of their pieces in a straight line up to the end of the board or up to colliding with another piece Move one of the exterior empty rings to another...
Each player places a set of 9 cones, 8 pawns and a king, in one of the corners of the board. The aim of every player must be to occupy the cone pattern in the middle of the board with their cones. The movement always occurs on the black lines by 1 square, outside the square bordered by a red line in all directions. Once entered, the red square may not be...
Nonpoint is an abstract strategy game for 2–3 players, with a solitaire variant. It is to be played with a 37-hex-hex board and a XATS set. Your score is the product of the numbers of your pieces in contiguous groups (as in OMEGA), minus the number of points (i.e. the tips) on your pieces you haven’t played. Maximize your score! The solitaire rules are the...
Nooks is two-player abstract strategy game of area enclosure. The standard game is played on a regular hexagonal game board, divided into hexagons with 8 hexagons to a side. Players take turns placing walls in an attempt to enclosure small areas called nooks. A wall is created by placing four stones on four empty cells that are aligned and connected...