Didactic game produced by an university, to help understand the nature of spin glasses or other complex optimization problems, like organizing a party. The main target is to choose the favorite orientations of the spins/party guest and their interactions such that each player maximizes the number of spins/guests exhibiting the orientation of the player...
Spinimax is a three-player game for the Shibumi set. The board starts empty. Players take turns adding a piece of their colour to an empty board cell. Whenever a 2x2 platform is formed, at any level, then a piece is placed on top, its colour being the minority colour in the 2x2 platform (if any) otherwise the majority colour. The winner is the owner of the...
2, 3 or 4 people can take part in the game, each paying 5 or 10 tokens into the till. With 2 players, one leads the spider, the other the 12 flies. If there are 3 players, one leads the spider, the other two each 6 flies. With 4 players, one leads the spider, the other three each 4 flies. If the flies are distributed among several players, they must be...
The board depicts a circular spider web. Players move their five dice around the outer rim of the web, but have to cross it once in each of the four sectors. The players also control ten spider chips each with which they attempt to intercept the other player's dice and block the other player's spiders. Game play is dice-driven: On a roll of a 6, a player...
SPinOut is a short game playable with the Series: Shibumi game system. It uses the 4×4 board, 15 white balls and 15 red ones. RulesThe board starts empty. Two players, white and red, take turns placing a ball of their colour either on a empty board hole or stacking on a 2x2 platform of existing balls. A player, as an alternative, can choose to remove a...
A game that combines the timeless fun of puzzle arrangements, the strategic chaos of tiles placement, and the nerve-wracking precision of tower stacking, all on a spinning wheel of excitement! Each turn, a player must choose one of their wooden tiles to balance inside the wheel, with the edge of their piece placed further in the rolling direction than...
Spion (=Spy) is a 2-player strategy game with an unusual victory condition: you must find two hidden points on the opponents half of the gameboard. These hidden points are secretly marked on a paper copy of the gameboard; a whole pad of copies is included. The gameboard has 2 halves of 64 hex-fields each and the armies of the 2 players contain 6 defenders...
The game board depicts a colorful spiral. Each of the six colors has six base fields from which a spiral "arm" leads to the center of the board. The colors don't "belong" to any player. Instead, any player can use playing pieces in any color. There are two rule sets included: In the "dice game", players take turns rolling four dice. With the results, they...
Spiral consists of two games: The Gift: A two-player abstract strategy game with a dose of luck; cards contained in a trick determine where you must play. It's a a mashup of David Parlett's Tantony and Cameron Browne's Cross with a unique way of ensuring that you don't know precisely the contents of your opponent's hand. Grazing: A solitaire game played...
Players each have one or two pawns. Depending on a dice roll they chose which pawn to advance along the spiral. Pawns landing on or adjacent to their own colour advance forward or backward along the spiral, or move inward or outward. If you and on another pawn the other pawn moves backwards five spaces, but may then in turn trigger off backward, forward...
Spirax is played on a board of concentric circles. The circles have paths connecting them which spiral inwards towards the central vortex. Each player has four pieces which start along one spiral. Each turn the pieces can be moved by allocating movement points, with movement becoming more expensive the closer a piece is to the vortex. In addition, on some...