The board displays a rainbow with 6 colored tracks. The player pawns are animals. Each animal carries a jewel on its back. At each turn the player throws a die and moves his/her pawn. A player may move forward or sideways. If the jewel on the back of the animal corresponds with the course of the rainbow, the animal moves faster. Otherwise the animal moves...
(From the Introduction in the rules.) Regimental Chess is ... a battle by a division of chess pieces on a (board) three times larger than traditional chess. Each side has 14 infantrymen (pawns), 4 bishops, 4 knights, 4 rooks, 2 queens, and a king. Pieces may move individually or in battalions. A battalion is the group of each piece type, e.g. 4 bishops are...
Regions is a game about territory fight, using the same board game set as Go. It has one basic concept: region. The players increase their territory by making regions: The rule of the Regions is very simple: If the player's current stone and the other 3 stones on the board form a 4-side region (which is formed by vertical lines, horizontal lines and lines...
Description from the publisher: In Regrettable Tattoo players take turns playing ridiculous tattoos on one another. The strategic placement of these tattoos racks up points on the other player's bodies. It’s not actually about how many crazy tattoo’s you have, but how they are arranged on your body! The person with the least points against them is the...
Forming arts with strings, Flashing your inspiration! This game is a puzzle game with some strings. You use strings to form the pictures depicted by the cards. You need to be careful to match the lower and upper part of the strings where they cross each other. It is the point of the game that there are three types of strings in this game. Red is one set...
Reign and Ruin is a medieval strategy game played on any flat surface using brick-built miniature pieces. No board, no proprietary components — just the figures you already own, two standard six-sided dice, and a ruler. The rules are deliberately flexible: no two players need the same collection. Six factions compete for gold, territory, and glory. The...
("Games around Treasure Island") The first and only(?) book in a planned series of themed game books. Wittig compilation of pirate-themed games complete with rules and instructions to make them by yourself. Some were published in later years, some were half-baked and asked the reader to add his own ideas or rules. The 16 contributors included : - Alex...
Each player has nine pawns. Movement is determined by a die and is permitted in all directions. The players begin at the nine starting spaces at their side of the game board. The first player to get his nine pawns to the starting spaces of his opponent wins the game. It is not permitted to jump over opposing pawns. So, the players are able to block each...
Rek is a traditional game of Cambodia played on an 8x8 board. Each side has a king and 15 men, each of which moves as the rook in international chess. The object of the game is to capture the opposing king. There are two ways to capture: 1) move so as to immobilize one or more enemy men; 2) move between two enemy men that are on an orthogonal line and are...
Rekta is a 2 player abstract tactical card game where players compete with each other in a hard-thinking duel. By deploying, flipping, rotating, swapping and moving cards on the 3x3 card grid, players try to arrange them to reach one of the winning conditions. The gameplay is divided into two phases. Phase 1 is aimed to build together the 3x3 grid by...
Rekushu (semi-transliteration of "Rectangle" into Japanese) is a territory game played on a square board. Players take turns placing their stones on empty intersections trying to form the vertices of rectangular regions. A rectangle that doesn't have other stones or claimed territory in its interior can be claimed by a player. The object is to have the...