Explained in Gladstone's Games to Go, Sliders is an abstract strategy game played on a 1x9 grid with coins (or similarly small objects). Players determine the amount of coins in 8 stacks as well as the maximum movement (slide) along the grid by secretly writing down numbers and adding them together. The player to move the final piece into the 9th box...
Slides of Action is played on a 4x4 square board with five stones in each of three colors. The board is occupied by stones except of one space. Each player choose a color. The third remaining color is neutral in a two-player game. On each turn,each player shifts a line of 1,2 or 3 stones towards the empty space. A player wins if he connects his stones into...
Slidestone is a simple, abstract game of strategy for two players. It's easy to learn, beautiful to behold, quick to play, and challenging to master. The rules are simple, they're printed right on the board! Alternate turns. Slide a stone in a single direction ending only at an edge or another stone. The first player to reach the center wins! —description...
Slidey is a fast-paced abstract board game in which players goal is to achieve four in a row on a constantly changing playing area. Slidey is really easy to learn but hard to master. Gameplay: On his turn player places one of his pieces on the edge of playing area and then pushes it into the game board. Push may interact with other pieces and thus change...
Introduction:Licled (from Old Norse: lykkja leið, meaning "loop path") is a loop-stalemate game for two players: Black and White. It is played on the hexes (cells) of an initially empty hexagonal board. The recommended board size is 7 cells per side, but boards of 5, 6, 8 or 9 are also valid. Each player has a sufficient supply of identical stones, each...
Sligo 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. Sligo is based on Corey Clark's Slither and the ancient game of Go. DefinitionsA group is a stone along with all stones one can reach from it through a series of...
Slimetrail is a two-player, abstract game played on a rectangular grid (or a rhombus made of hexagons, as in Hex). Each player takes turns moving a piece around the board. The piece can be moved one space, and may not re-visit a visited cell. Two goal cells are located at diagonally opposite corners of the rectangle (or in the obtuse corners of the...
Slings and Stones is a strategy boardgame which uses a standard checkerboard with chess and checkers pieces. It can easily be learned and played in a few short minutes, but mastery of the game will take much longer. Each and every move can have huge ramifications, and players will find it extremely difficult to plan more than a couple of rounds in advance....
The core mechanic of Slingshot Maneuver is based on a real technique used by NASA to save on fuel when sending unmanned spacecraft into the outer solar system. They will use the gravity of planets as a “slingshot” to get a boost in speed and reduce fuel consumption. Two military forces fight for control of the solar system, and slingshot maneuvers are very...
Slipstream is a two-player abstract racing game. Both players run four near-future machines, accumulate points obtained by being the first to pass some of the seven checkpoints and the first-come-first-served goal, and hope that their team will get more than half of all points. The only random element is creating the race course. Players alternate moving...
Slipe is an abstract board game for two players. Players take turn moving one of their five pieces across the board. Pieces may be moved forward, back, left, or right. However, when moved a piece will slide all the way until there is a barrier (end of board or another piece). A piece cannot stop moving midway. The first player to move their main piece into...