REWE is an abstract majority game for 2 players inspired by the Mapuche culture, an indigenous people of South America. You will impersonate a Machi, spiritual guide and you will employ her/his knowledge in obtaining the right combinations of curative herbs - the Lawen - to heal the polluted territories. There are 3 types of cards: Lawen cards: these are...
Rex was published by "Rex-Verlag Rudolf Schilling" in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1900. It can be described as a mixture between Salta from 1899, since the pieces of each player have to cross the board to the other side, and Chess, for the pieces have different value and represent General, Horse, Soldier etc. Unlike Chess, captured pieces are of a...
Rex was an independently published game made by Mag-Nif, 8820 East Ave. Mentor, Ohio, in 1982 (I wonder what's there now?). In many ways, the Gigamic games owe something to this one. In Rex, players stack colored balls onto nine pegs, one each per turn. The goals are to get three balls a) vertically on any one of the pegs b) horizontally on any level in...
In RGB - a barbaric game played with Icehouse pieces on a chessboard - you're trying to kill your opponent's children. (You were warned it was barbaric!) You control an army of RGBs - alien creatures with three distinct layers of thought - and they lose one layer (and an ability) if they are attacked. For example, children must remain next to a piece which...
Rhode is a drawless connection game for two players: Black and White. It's played on the intersections (points) of an initially empty square grid (board). The top and bottom edges of the board are colored black; the left and right edges are colored white. DefinitionsA weak pair is a set of two like-colored, diagonally adjacent stones such that there is no...
ランバス is a tile placement game where players compete for points by placing 13 diamond tiles one by one on the squares on the board. Every tile has 2 triangles drawn next to each other, and the points you get will differ depending on how many triangles of your color are connected in the end. If the number of connected pieces is "even", you can get points...
Rhumb Line ... 2-player abstract strategy game of observation, placement (nuggets) and accumulation (points). Players take it in turns placing their nuggets, on the empty board, to form point-winning rhumb lines. 4 in a radius = 10 points … 4 in an arc = 20 points … 4 in a spiral = 30 points. The twist in the tail is - when players are down to their last...
A classic maneuver strategy game akin to checkers. RIBBIT is a two player game with one player taking the red pieces and the other the blue pieces. Each player has 5 pieces (wooden meeples) and 3 blockers (wooden disks). A player wins by exiting his pieces (meeples) and scoring points. The player who scores best out of 11 points (6 or more) wins the game....
Ric Rak Roll is a spin off of Tic Tac Toe, but with dice. This gives the game more strategy and a longer play time. The goal of the game is to get three dice of the same number in a row, with at least two of those in your own color. Each player takes turns rolling one die at a time and placing it on the board. Once the board is full players will roll a die...
Tactical board game for 2 to 4 people. With carefully considered moves, you have to try to block the opponent. As soon as a player can no longer move any of his pieces forward or sideways, he is blocked and eliminated. The draw is always two spaces forward or sideways. There is a compulsory strike. The hit is made by dragging next to an opposing figure and...