Alphabet Code is a fast-paced logic and deduction game for 2 or more players. Each player secretly creates a 5-letter code using digital-style alphabet tiles (a–j), hidden behind a screen. Players take turns asking grid-based questions to deduce their opponent’s code before their own is uncovered. On your turn, choose to ask: How many adjacent squares are...
Alphabet Stoop is a turn-based, word building, tile placement game that is sure to deliver fun to your doorstep! Play as a parcel delivery person dropping off packages (letter tiles) on stoops and using them to spell words. Move your package carriers from stoop to stoop. Carriers must always move via an adjacent stoop. Drop off your packages on stoops and...
Alquad is a pattern building game using the Alquerque board. Players attempt to create a regular square by adding pieces to empty intersections and placing their own pieces at their vertices. However, even if you complete a square, you lose if your opponent creates a larger rectangle on your next turn. This game is included in ''Generic Board Alquerq''...
The game of Alquerque is played on a special board of 5 x 5 points with lines between them to indicate allowed moves. To draw a board is easy. First draw a 5 x 5 orthogonal grid. The draw two diagonal lines - from each corner to the opposite corner. Finally draw four diagonal lines in the form of a square that connects the midpoints of each side. Alquerque...
A board with triangle and rhombus spots for the playing pieces, diagonally arranged black starting squares and coloured squares for finish spots in the middle. On that special board a dice and movement game is played with special dice, which denote up, down, right, left, double move and lose a turn, directions rolled give a move of one spot, double move...
Alta is a connection game played on a diamond-shaped board. An unusual twist of the game is that players place diagonal lines, called "switches," in the squares, which can be slanted either forward or backward. A player can either put a new switch on the board or "toggle" the direction of one of his switches. The object of the game is to connect two...
From Zillions of Games: Altairian Checkers, recently decoded from SETI transmissions, is a checkers/draughts type game played on a radial hex board with four hexes to a side. Each player starts with ten pieces called Pods arranged on opposite sides of the board. A Pod moves by orbiting a neighboring piece of either color, called the pivot. A Pod can orbit...
Altan Xaraacaj is a traditional game from Mongolia. The object of the game is to get your 3 pieces in a row. Players take turns to enter one of their pieces on any vacant point, trying to get 3 in a row. When all the pieces are entered, with still no series of 3 in a row, players take turns moving their pieces on the next point, provided it is vacant. The...
(Description from the box) The game of strategy and wit for two players involving thirteen geometric elements and an invisible force. The geometric shape of the individual playing pieces indicates how they may be moved, while maintaining a simple visual and tactile quality. The invisible force relies on the imagination of the players. The concept is...
From the back cover: "The alternative games in this booklet are all designed to be played with standard equipment. They offer exciting new dimensions to games played on or with draught boards, cards, dominoes etc., helping to eliminate the constant financial burden of purchasing expensive and often short-lived new games. The games in Alternative Games for...
Ever wondered what it might have been like guiding a nation through the turbulent and potentially disastrous Cold War? Choose a country or create your own in this abstract card and dice board game representing nation building, military management, leaders and innovations, events and ideological conflict. Through the course of six rounds of play, use your...