Planetoid is a deceptively simple game played on a spherical board. Players must capture all of his her opponent's pieces. Strategic challenges emerge as players navigate a borderless play surface. Players: 2 Setup: Each player places their 6 pawns on the designated home spaces (Red or Blue). Players roll 2 dice to determine who plays first. The highest...
Plank is a public domain game that was included by Sid Sackson in A Gamut of Games. Players take turns laying "planks" and placing or moving markers on the resulting game board. Each plank has one red, one white and one blue field, which can only be occupied by markers of matching colors. The object of the game is to form a vertical or horizontal line of...
Imaginative town planners are needed here to use the many elegant buildings to form imposing squares. When a new enclosed square is formed by the skillful placement or sliding along of the buildings, the successful architect can place a monument in the center of it. Spatial imagination together with well thought out planning are positive advantages in this...
Plasm is played on a grid of pentagons. Scattered among the pentagons are a series of two, three and five pointed shapes which are shaded. The players take turns making either an "X" or an "O" in the pentagons. Their first move can be anywhere, but subsequent moves must be connected to a pentagon which they have already claimed. Points are scored by...
Each playing piece has colored rings attached to its top and bottom faces; the color of the ring that's showing indicates how the piece moves. At the start of your move, you can flip the top piece in a stack over, changing how that piece moves. And your opponent isn't allowed to look underneath your pieces to see what might be there. With this significant...
Players try to reach the highest point on the ever changing board. In a turn, players either place a tile, place their pawn on the board, or move their pawn if it's already on the board. Moving a pawn is allowed under the condition that for each step (based on the square grid of the board), the pawn has to either go up or down one level. Precisely one...
This Board Game/Puzzle is built on Plato's Cave Allegory and the diagram from Carlo Cipolla's essay "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity". It is about gaining experience of the human nature, becoming a better person, to then escape the cave and become enlightened. In the process, each player must help others to become “enlightened enough” and accumulate an...
Play 5 is a game that combines mechanics from scrabble and poker. Players create interlocking poker themed hands in a crossword fashion to attain the highest hand score to win the other player's chips. The hand scores are achieved by adding the face values on the tiles and strategizing to take advantage of the bonus squares on the board, that multiply the...
This game belongs to a series of 4 games by Scandecor, which come in a square plastic board (Play Cavalry, Play Balance, Play Ecology and Play Numeric). The board has 12x12 spaces and each of them is made as a 3d-hole, where you can place a tile looking to one player or to the other by tip over the tile. One player plays with the 48 water tiles and the...
This game belongs to a series of 4 games by Scandecor, who come in a square plastic box (Play Cavalry, Play Balance, Play Ecology and Play Numeric). Play Ecology looks like a mixture of "Trap the Cap" and "Chess", but it is not as easy as that sounds. Each of the players has 6 playing pieces, which move like the Knights in chess. In the middle of the board...