Spartan chess is a chess variant played on a standard 8x8 chess board. The two sides have pieces and pawns with different characteristics and capabilities. Such differences you would expect between opponents on an actual ancient battlefield. The Black side represents the Spartans and the White the Persians. The Persians have pawns, pieces, an initial...
The game can is played on a 9x9 Go board with 18 pieces to each side, one unique piece among the 18. From Zillions of Games: Forces are arrayed on the second and third rank with the marked stone at the center of the third. The unmarked stones are know as Hoplites and the marked stone is the Enomotarch. All stones move the same: Step one to two vacant...
Spava is a game for the Shibumi set, made as an entry for Shibumi Challenge. Two players, White and Black, take turns adding either a ball of their colour or a neutral red ball. A player wins by completing a line of length L of their colour on any LxL level. A player loses by completing a line of length L-1 on any LxL level. Lines can be orthogonal or...
It's the 1920s during the time of Prohibition and its famous speakeasies. Will you succeed in finding your opponent's speakeasy with your clan of gangsters before he finds yours? To set up Speakeasy, each player places his 25 pieces on the game board with the values visible only to him. Players then take turns moving along the streets and alleys, even...
Special cake is a two players game playable with the Shibumi game system. It uses the 4×4 holes board and 30 balls of the set. The game consists of three variants, created together, at the same time: "mint and liquorice candies", "sugar candies" and "mint, liquorice and cherry candies (aka the poisoned candy)". Mint and liquorice candies In the “mint and...
Species is a game about ecology and evolution of plants for 2 or 3 players. Eight or nine different plant species compete for soil and sun, adapting to natural circumstances and to each other, while trying to survive a rampaging herd of grazing animals destroying everything in its path. Players try to give the plant species under their control the right...
An entry in the 2001 About.com 8x8 Game Design Competition. Each player selects a color. Each player in turn (clockwise if more than 2) places one piece of any color, on any vacant square, alongside a differently colored piece or pieces, if any, already in play. The first straight line of four adjacent pieces with a player's color at each end wins for that...
Spectacular Tumble is a two-player game for the Shibumi set. Play begins with a full pyramid of balls, two of which are black scoring balls and the rest evenly divided between the players' colors. Players Red and White take turns removing balls but they may not remove the scoring balls or leave any empty position in the bottom 4x4 layer of the pyramid. The...
The game is played on a 4x4 square board with 16 transparents discs, 5 each of red, yellow and blue and one colourless disc. Players take turns in placing two single discs onto the board in vacant spaces until the board is full. Players now may move two single discs each turn but now they may be placed one piece on top of an existing piece but never such...
Spectra is a game for two to four players that employs the same type of logic as the game of Nim. Placing cubes on the board, players hope to end each round with a majority of cubes on as many spaces as possible, thus scoring points. But the order of play and distribution of cubes can have millions of potential combinations. It’s a bit of a brain-teaser...
Matching colors and shapes is easy, right? what about matching both at the same time, while keeping your opponents from scoring their best play? Look out for a possible spectrum bonus! Add to the longest shape path! And don't forget to pay attention to what pieces your opponents have left! This strategy game is easy to learn, but challenging enough for...