Shards of Alkemae may be played at three different levels, Novice, Apprentice, and Master. Game play remains essentially the same, but rules change from level to level. Regardless of level, players take turns laying down tiles to form the game board and move their game pieces about the board, trying to lay claim to regions worth the most points. The tiles...
Share And Share Alike is a moderately complex economic simulation game for 4 players, a Poker deck, and 4 Icehouse stashes (or 60 stackable tokens, like poker chips or checkers). The game starts with five companies, each with no investments. Each player starts with no shares in any companies. During the game you gain shares in companies (some of your...
Easy to play and dynamic at the same time! Each player is to collect the best set of cards. The players have their cards open. It's your decision to go forward or prevent any opponent's move. Every turn the host opens the cards and places them in a row. 7 cards for 3 players and 4 cards for 4 players. Then he puts card-dividers to break the row into 3...
Sharpy transforms the classic "#" grid game into a chaotic, strategic party battle using the UPV system (Layer-0 & Layer-1). Players start each turn choosing to spend a Token (safe play) or roll the Blue Die (boosts, modifiers, or forced chaos). Some Blue results trigger the Red Die, introducing sabotage, swaps, reversed turns, blocking cells, double...
Shashki Poddavki (give-away Shashki) is a two-player abstract strategy game from Russia. It is played on the dark squares of an 8x8 Checkers board. The usual rules of Checkers, or rather, Shashki apply -- players may advance their pieces by moving them diagonally to an adjacent black square, and the opponent's pieces may be jumped and captured. However...
Shatar is the form of chess played in and around Mongolia. It is played on an 8x8 non-checkered board. Each player has a set of 16 men: 8 chu (pawns) that move and capture as in international chess; a nojon (king) that moves as a chess king; a bers (big animal) that moves as a king+rook; two mor (horses) that move as knights; two temee (camels) that move...
Shatra (шатра), also known as Altay Shatra (Алтай-шатра), is a cross-over between chess and checkers, which is based on a traditional game of the Altay region whose exact rules were lost. It was re-created in 1960 by Saveliy Yakovlevich Pahayev, a professor of the Gorno-Altaisk Research Institute of History, Language and Literature. In 1974, some...
Shatranj has its origins in Chaturanga and is the predecessor to modern European Chess. The two games resemble each other, but Shatranj is different enough that they can be considered two distinct games, even though it is Shatranj that Europeans first called "chess". The main differences between shatranj and modern chess are that the earlier game had a...
This game originated in India and it is played on a Chess board using a full set of black Chess pieces, representing the Sepoys, against a single white piece, the Maharajah. The Sepoy player's goal is to checkmate the Maharajah, while the Maharajah player seeks to checkmate the Sepoy's king. The black pieces begin the game in the same positions as in a...