1st place at Epitrapezio 2018. All great empires want to conquer the famous Spice Islands, but who will prevail? At the King’s order, you sail to these lands, eager to discover new sources of the most valuable goods. Build new settlements to strengthen your dominance, ports to take control of the maritime trade and forts to protect the colony and fend off...
Spider uses a system of movement and jumping similar to that of Chinese Checkers, but with a twist. The first playing piece (or 'fly') to cross the "Goal Line" at the other side of the board becomes the Spider and is placed in the center of the board. On subsequent turns, the Spider player may move the Spider in addition to their normal move. Once the...
The board represents a spider's web. The spider's den is in the center. 19 pieces are used: one spider, 13 common(yellow) flies and five blue(green) flies. Blue flies count three and common flies are one for a total of 28 points. One team is the flies the other team is the spider. Object of game is to score 15 points. Flies attempt to get into spider's den...
This abstract game cleverly exploits its theme of warring spiders to introduce children to thinking games. The board represents a web with two nests at opposite ends, and stands up between the players. Each player uses his side of the board to move his spiders on (three small ones and a large one). Each spider has two long flexible legs with which it steps...
Unusual, tetrahedral board with 121 dice in three colors. A series of games, some involving dexterity, other abstract movement. A gaming system in which the inventor encourages players to devise new games. Aesthetically interesting. First published by Edition Perlhuhn in 1980 (301 dice for 57 games), by Kosmos in 1986 (281 dice) and re-issued by Abacus in...
Both players have three soldiers; one player plays with black, the other with yellow. One of the players puts his soldiers upon the 3 blue spaces marked 1, the other puts them upon those marked 2. Each player alternately advances a soldier following the black lines in any direction, one space at a time. In order to win it is necessary to advance so far as...
The idea for this game is based on Reinhold Wittig's earlier game "Spiel" (#2229). In fact, it contains the same game board, but instead of dice there are building bricks in different sizes, rubber bands and wooden balls. The original game contains a rule sheet with three games and the encouragement to invent more (much like in "Spiel", for which way over...
Spight is a ball stacking and connection game that can be played with a Series: Shibumi set. It uses a board of 4x4 holes, 8 white balls and 8 black balls. Setup: Place 8 black balls and 8 white balls according to the figure. ● ○ ● ○ ○ ● ○ ● ● ○ ● ○ ○ ● ○ ● Rules: Two players, White and Black, alternate turns moving a ball of their colour either: a)...
SPIN. A solitaire game for the Series: Shibumi set Starting the game The player starts with a given hand of marbles of diferent colours. The other balls remain in the bag and are used as a resource pool. The turn 1. The player places one ball from his hand on the board. 2. If the marble touches another ball of a different colour, both balls are replaced...
The game consists of a web printed on a turntable, 20 wood "insects" in four colors, a black wood spider, 30 spider cards, a wood die, and a wood dice cup. There are two games described in the rules. The basic game has players trying to move their pieces (insects) from starting positions around the web to the other side, always moving along a line of the...