Though clouds of butterflies have gathered from the meadow, birds, bugs, and other animals also call it home. Each creature provides new challenges for cultivating your garden. Your goal as a gardener is simple: maintain a balance. Beyond the Meadow contains all of the unlocked stretch goals from the Papillon Kickstarter campaign. These modules include...
Papillon tries to flee the Devil’s Island, to do that the piece must be moved off board. The other player tries to catch Papillon. Each piece can move one step per turn. If a piece is enclosed by two opposing pieces, it is taken off the board, but not if a piece actively moves between two pieces. If Papillon is taken off, the game ends. In a variant the...
Papillons is a card game in which each player has a secret objective: to align four butterflies of a given colour or of a given type. Players take turns to place a card in the table trying to obtain their secret four-butterflies alignment or to move an already placed card to another place. They also have two tokens which can be used only once; one token...
Par-k is a five-in-a-row game played on a 14×14 grid divided into four quadrants. Each quadrant is further divided into seven "lanes" of seven squares each. During a turn a player may either: 1) place a new piece anywhere on the board, 2) jump a piece, or 3) slide a piece. Whenever a piece ends its move orthogonally adjacent to two or more opposing pieces...
On a small board 4 x 10 squares there are six little half-precious stones for each player in their starting position: three in the first of the four-square-rows, leaving the rightmost square unoccupied and three in the sixth row, leaving the leftmost field unoccupied. The direction of play is "the long run", so the second row of each player is already...
The government of Maximilian, who inherited the reign over Bruges in 1482, is harsh and taxes are high, leading to public discontent. When Maximilian visited Bruges in 1488, the people decided to revolt. They were able to imprison their monarch for over four months. Out of vengeance, Maximilian imposed a prohibition to organize festivities and fairs. To...
Two groups of friends meet while vacationing on a tropical island. While relaxing at the local tiki bar, they enter into a friendly wager. They will take to the skies, and each team of friends will race through the tropical skies, plunging by parachute back to the island. The last group back to the tiki bar buys a round for everyone. Paradise Plunge is a...
In Sedici – Italian for "sixteen" – the sixteen game tiles are split randomly between the two players, with the pieces being placed face-up before each player. Each tile is different, with one being all white, another all black, and the other fourteen being some combination of black and white triangles. On a turn, the player chooses one of his tiles and...
Paradoxes are situations that have inexplicable or contradictory aspects. They are captivating logical mysteries. They can be situations that seem contradictory but are nonetheless true. Parrondo's paradox is one of the four key paradoxes in game theory. It was discovered by Juan Parrondo in 1996 describing a paradoxical situation where a combination of...