A two-player themed 'abstract' in which players race to get as much food off the table as possible. The ants with the most valuable food win! Wherever there is food, there are bugs! Help a pair of ants race to get food off the picnic table before the wind, the rain, a psycho kid with a magnifying glass and other bugs (among other events) destroy the food....
Ant Trails: A Two-Player Abstract Strategy Game Objective: Create the longest unbroken trail of your colored ants and collect the most valuable bonus tiles. Setup: -Hexagonal game board. - Shuffle the 12 bonus tiles (4 x 3 points, 4 x 2 points, 4 x 1 point) and place them face-up randomly on the board (avoiding border cells). - Each player takes the ant...
Simple, tile-based game for two players in which each person controls a row of tiles representing various groups of ants. Once each player has created a row of 6 ant tiles, they begin drawing "event cards." Amongst the event cards are eggs, which can be assigned to groups of your ants. Other event cards will make the players' ants fight (possibly losing...
Emperor penguins with their waiter's livery and typical waddling gait belong to Antarctica like eternal ice. In real life they are arrow-fast swimmers and can dive up to 500 meters deep, but for this game you can only hike over the ice floes and not fall into the water. The goal is to get 5 penguins to the other side. Problems come with your opponent and a...
“The spiders are on the march, they have their sights set on Antburger Hill, Grid Ref. 86N 27.4E. The bugle sounds and Ants scurry to man hurried fortifications. With stout hearts the defenders stand in wait for the spiders to rush their hill.” The ants must defend their anthill against the rush of the spider hordes. “Hold that hill at all costs.” Using...
Anthromancer is a tabletop game system that features a suite of original neoclassical strategy and chance games, as well as an original oracle. It is primarily organized around a 2-4 player abstract strategy game called 'Mercenarium'. In Mercenarium, players take turns placing and moving cards with various edge values in an attempt to overcome the edge...
Anti-Grid is an abstract strategy game for two players, each trying to eliminate the other’s pieces through capture. The unique thing about the board is that each player plays on his/her own grid - they never follow the same paths to victory or defeat. Capture is made by flanking, or trapping an opponent’s piece between two of your own, and players may set...
Anti-King Chess is a pair of variants played on the standard 8x8 chessboard with the standard pieces, and one more piece per side. The Anti-King is a King that is in check only when not attacked by opposing pieces. The goal of Anti-King Chess is to checkmate either your opponent's King or Anti-King. This game was voted a recognized variant on the...
Anti-Social: The Anti-Pawn Placement Game The Anti-Social, pro social game about playing with your friends, more then they play with you. In a world of games where it’s easy to win, and victory is all about claiming as much space on a board as possible, In Anti-Social, the point is to do just the opposite. Occupy as little space on the board as you can....
Counters with numbered arrows indicate the direction along which each player will pick their following placement as players wrangle their counters across the hex plan board. Each player is attempting to connect 8 pieces or encircle any of the other players with 6 of their own to arrive at one of the four winning conditions first. Cultivating more than a...
From the designer, Matt Arnold: Antigrams is a 5-minute 2-player print-and-play abstract strategy game, involving simultaneous tile placement, subtitled "Rock Paper Scissors Tiles". Equipment is a stack of 48 identical square tiles, each divided diagonally into a light-color triangle and a dark-color triangle, presumed in these instructions to be white and...