Played on a board of 8 x 7 squares. The 2 players have 12 cylinders with the top closed (3 small of 4 value, 3 medium of 3 value, 3 big of 2 value, and the 3 biggest of 1 value). They can be put one on another like Russian dolls. At the beginning of the game, the 12 cylinders are on the line before their owner (6 under the 6 others). The object of the game...
Your training in the great halls of magic is now over, the years of hard work and difficult study now coming to an end. Tomorrow you will begin your long journey, one each graduate of the tower must take; a journey of adventure, danger and riches. You will need all your skills to survive this quest, but you are ready, for your magic is strong and your will...
Yes, you are an Archaeologist. You track down antiquities all over the globe. You don’t want trouble, yet trouble always seems to find you. But you are ready for anything with your whip, gun, and lucky hat. Sen So is a 2 or more player strategy board game for ages 10 and up. Most games take about 15-30 minutes to play. Sen So uses a unique set of octagon...
This early Chess variant was proposed by Italian Chess scholar Francesco Piacenza in his book I Campeggiamenti negli Scacchi as Arciscacchiere, and then given its English name Archchess by John Gollon in an unpublished book on Chess variants. The game is played on a board of 10x10 squares. In addition to the usual Chess pieces and two more pawns, each...
A strategy game where players are dealt hands of cards containing specific patterns, and a central trough of white and dark colored balls sits in the middle of the table between all players. Each player on their turn is allowed to lift one ball out of the tray and place it on either end of the line. Because the tray is slightly curved, all the remaining...
Archimedes is a nautical battle game for 2 players. The board is an 8×8 grid, and each player has 10 (in the original version) or 12 "ships" represented by pieces of one color. The object of the game is to capture the opponent's ships. Pieces may move any distance in any direction. They do not capture by moving; instead, a piece that could move to an...
A completely different game from the "Archimedes" published in 1995 by egSpiele. The game is played on an 8x8 board, with each player controlling one King pawn. On your turn, you must move your King (as a normal chess king) and then place a pyramid on the board. Once your King has become completely surrounded by pyramids and cannot move, you are out of the...
This is a strategy game for 2-3 players. It takes place on a 6 sided game board with pieces moving on the triangles. Each player has 4 pawns in the form of dice. The triangular fields of the board are molded so that a corner of a die exactly fits in. The die can be moved from space to space with a simple nudge at the top. Object of the game is to get your...
2 player game: Each turn the players put 1 token on the game board. When the players have placed 4 tokens each the moving phase begins. The players move in turns 1 of their tokens 1 space along the drawn lines. The first player to complete 1 of 36 possible winning figures wins the game. 4 player game: The players play in teams with 2 tokens each....