Arxhenge is a castle stronghold and like all strongholds, it keeps something safe, in this case, an enormous cache of treasure. The goal of the games is to enter this immense and mysterious citadel, steal its treasure, and escape with it before your opponent does the same. There are three different games with a couple of variations that we play on the...
This game evolved from (or alongside) Fox & Geese and seems to have appeared first in Germany at least as early as 1803, where it has been known as Belagerungsspiel (Siege Game) or Festungsspiel (Fortress Game.) In English speaking countries it was published as Siege, or German Tactics. In France it was published in 1855 as Assault. In Italy it is called...
Based in the Asalto game, but using two joined boards. The players are attackers and defenders at the same time. The objective of the game is to occupy the 9 spaces that defended the other player, or the destruction of his attack spaceships, or the immobilization of his deffense spaceships. In each turn the player can move an attack or deffense ship. The...
In this beautiful wooden game, you have to climb on top of the "mountain" (the wooden cubes) and go back to your starting point before the other players. Some of the cubes have a symbol, which means a special power : the ladder helps to climb faster, the abyss must be avoided. Some cubes may be passed through only by the players represented on the cube....
New invention of chess game form traditional chess of South East Asian Countries. The game adapts from Makruk (Thai Chess), Ouk Chatrang (Cambodian Chess) and Sittuyin (Burmese Chess). Those have very similar chess style and have some minor difference. The game is declared on March 14th 2011 at ASEAN-Chess council, Bangkok, Thailand. The game applies some...
Aseb is an ancient Egyptian game played on a board reminiscent of the Royal Game of Ur and Senet, to both of which it seems to be related. The exact rules are unknown. The board consists of a middle row with 12 squares and at one end two rows of four squares, one each on either side. Hence the game is sometimes called the Game of Twenty Squares. Note: It...
Ashes is an annihilation game for two players played on a hexhex board with stackable pieces of two colors. The board starts out empty. Still, all you ever do in Ashes is move stacks. This is accomplished by the help of a very liberal understanding of "stack": A single piece is considered a stack of size 1, and an empty cell is considered to contain a...
The Little Girl is the key to everything... Ashes to Ashes is a game for 2-5 players (45 min.) in which two factions (Humans and Vampires) try to catch the Chosen One, to bring her back to their own faction base. During the game, these factions will fight themselves: the annihilation of one of them is one of the other ways to win a game. Humans and...
This game was mentioned for the first time in an ancient Buddhist text (Vinayapitaka). It's a typical roll-and-move game. Players move around the board in a spiral fashion. Each player has two pieces, landing on another player's piece removes that piece from the board. Marked corner squares are "safe" spaces. First player to get both their pieces to the...
Asli is a territory game for two players: Black and White. It is played on the intersections (points) of an initially empty square grid (board). There is also an off-board location called prison. This game is based on Lifeline. DefinitionsA group is a stone along with all stones one can reach from it through a series of steps onto orthogonally adjacent...