Try to outsmart your opponents by creating gears with the rotor pieces. When a gear is formed, a lug is added into play! The first player to add all of their lugs into play, wins the game. But watch out! If a gear contains differing heights of stacked lugs, all players add lugs into play, so take your time in deciding which rotor to rotate and which lugs...
Sprout is a cooperative game for 2 to 5 players that can be played with a Series: Shibumi set. It uses a 4×4 set of stacking spheres in 3 colors. It can also be played as a solitaire game. The completed Shibumi pyramid symbolizes the branches of a cherry blossom tree that grow and prosper. They can sprout horizontally or diagonally upwards, but must not...
Sprouts is a two-player game, invented by John Conway (the creator of the game of Life) and Michael Paterson, while they were at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). The rules are: In the beginning - a few spots are drawn on the paper; On every move, the player must connect two spots (or one spot to itself) with a curve, which doesn't intersect...
This book was originally published in 2 volumes in 1982. A second edition was released in 4 volumes starting in 2001. These four volumes (Spades, Hearts, Clubs and Diamonds) explore the foundations and current research in the field of combinatorial games (i.e. games for 2 players with alternating turns, no hidden information, and no chance). It is the...
Spruit is a solitaire game designed for play with a Shibumi set. It uses a 4×4-holed board, and balls in three colors (white, black, and red). Aim: Score the most points you can, without losing the game by disconnecting a white or a black the others of its kind. Setup: The 4×4 board starts with the 16 base holes filled as shown to the right. The game is...
from the designer It's a way to solve a problem for a well-known win condition and an excuse to create another game on a colorful board I enjoy (the first was Swaparound). The game is called Spry, which is a contraction of the phrase "Spread Y". The problem is that if you play the game Y on a hexhex board, the center of the board is much more important...
Spuds is a simple game for 2 players that can be played with a Series: Shibumi set. . The board (4×4) starts with 8 White and 8 Black balls in an alternating pattern. Players take turns doing two things: First, the player must remove a ball of her colour from the bottom layer, if possible. It is only possible to remove a ball from the bottom layer if it...
Spurn is a three-player game (inspired by Néstor Romeral Andrés’ Spuzzle) designed for play with a Shibumi set. It uses a 4×4-holed board, and balls in three colors (white, black, and red). Aim: Be the last player to create a group of four or more balls of your color. Rules: The 4×4 board starts empty. The players, White, Black, and Red, take turns placing...
Spurs and Sprockets is a perfect information, abstract strategy game for two players. Players have eight matching tiles that they take turns placing orthogonally into a 4 X 4 grid, in an attempt to link three or four in a row. There is no board in Spurs and Sprockets so the grid grows organically, based on the placement of tiles. Spurs and Sprockets comes...
The Mercenary Start Card Expansion includes one card/tile that may be used with all Spurs and Sprockets card/tile decks. The Mercenary is placed in the field first and the start player places his/her card/tile adjacent to the Mercenary. Play continues based on which Spurs and Sprockets rules you have decided to play with. The Mercenary card/tile has lines...
The Turncoat Start Card Expansion includes one card/tile that may be used with all Spurs and Sprockets card/tile decks. The Turncoat card/tile has a single orthogonal line on one side and a single diagonal line on the other side. After deciding which side you will be playing with the Turncoat is placed on the field first and the start player places his/her...
The Villager Start Card Expansion includes one card/tile that may be used with all Spurs and Sprockets card/tile decks. The Villager is placed in the field first and the start player places his/her card/tile adjacent to the Villager. Play continues based on which Spurs and Sprockets rules you have decided to play with. The Villager card/tile has no lines...