The game is played on a square grid, usually 10 by 10. Each player starts with four amazons (which move as chess queens, but do not capture) placed in predetermined locations on their side of the board. On a player turn, he moves one amazon and then fires an arrow from the arrival position. Firing an arrow consists in placing a new arrow piece on the...
Ambivalence is played on a 6x6 square board. On each turn, each player drops a friendly stone on an empty cell. In the following cases, stones are transformed into neutral stones: Custodian: An enemy stone becomes neutral when placed between two friendly stones. Intrusion: Two enemy stones becomes neutral when a friendly stone is dropped between them. When...
Ambush is played with two copies of a small grid of triangles. Players start at opposite ends of the grid and move one space a turn; the spaces are the vertices. One player's copy of the grid is visible to both players (this player is the "Scout"). The other player's copy is hidden; this player moves first (and is the "Indian"). The object of the...
AMBUSH is an abstract board game designed largely on the use of the primitive shape - Triangle The core object of AMBUSH is to colonise as many of your opponent's game tiles as possible. You have to surround an opponent's triangular tile with 3 pieces of your own to colonise. Build a prism token of yours on the opponent tile to signify your colony....
User summary: Amen is an abstract stone-picking game with a theme of a struggle for the king's throne in ancient Egypt. You begin with a stone on a corner of the square-grid board. Each turn, you roll a die and extend your wall of stones by that number. When you place stones, you place the first one on a square adjacent to any one of your stones, then...
'American Chess' basically plays by the rules of standard chess. Each player has a king, 7 primary fighting pieces, and 8 pawns. Unlike chess the 7 primary pieces capability of movement is controlled by the color of the square they occupy any any given moment. The starting positions of the playing pieces are identical to regular chess and the color of the...
The American Game of Business is played on a board that is convertible from an 8x8 grid of checkered squares to an 8x10 grid of the same. There are two built-in flaps on either side that can cover up one row each, making the board 8x8, or can be opened up, resulting in an 8x10 board. Two lines through the board divide it into four quadrants. Two players...
Of the many mah jongg (mah jong) variants extant today, American mah jongg is unique. The single most popular variant in North America, it's also the least well documented. Prior to the publication of this book (A Beginner's Guide to American Mah Jongg, Elaine Sanberg, 2010), you could not find anything about the American game in bookstores. Instead what...
Amicitia is a finite territory game for two players: Black and White. It is played on the intersections (points) of an odd-sized, initially empty square grid (board). Players have access to a sufficient supply of pieces of two types (disks and tiles) and two colors (black and white). A group is a piece along with all identical pieces one can reach from it...
Amid the Ashes is a post-apocalyptic survival game in which you must ensure the supremacy of your faction by dominating what few resources are left amid the wasteland of an obliterated city. You must explore the ruins, survive radioactive fallout, fight mutants and rival factions, all in a bid to secure the last scraps of fuel, ammunition and clean water....