A backgammon flavored game from China. Originally called "Shuanglu" it later gained popularity in Japan under the name "Sugoroku." A Shuanglu set contains mainly a gameboard, 15 white and 15 black pieces and two dice. The gameboard is carved with 12 identical vertical lines, while the dice have six faces carved with the numbers from one to six. First the...
Sukkube is an abstract game in which each player represents a character of the circus: The Tamer, the Lion, the Presenter, the Clown, the Strong Man, and the Dancer. If fewer than six players are in the game, assign the remaining positions to the "bots", which will play automatically. They are distributed, discoveries, five cards to each character. The...
Description from the publisher: In the Kingdom of Al Bisat, four teams of flying carpet riders are preparing for the annual contest held by the Sultan. Each player must guide their team through an ever-changing maze of clouds, which are controlled by the Sultan's djinn! The first team to guide their carpets safely across the game board and land on the...
Sum On is an abstract strategy game of clever move chaining, for two players. You must use both your pieces and your opponent’s pieces to make bonus moves, so step wisely! Your pieces are numbered 1–8. On your turn, you move one of your pieces one step orthogonally or diagonally forward. Then, look for a bonus move: Choose an axis through that piece, and...
SUM8 is a two player tile based, puzzle-like strategy game with a rearrangeable board, unique tile design and extreme re-playability. The gameplay is simple: you play against your opponent, each player starting with 8 tiles. In alternating moves you create circles and then eventually '8's in a puzzle like sequence to score points to victory, but don't give...
Sumendi (from Basque: sumendi, meaning “volcano”) is a territorial game for two players: Black and White. It is played on the hexes (cells) of an initially empty hexagonal board. The recommended size is 6 cells per side, although boards of size 5 or 7 are also valid. Each player has access to a sufficient supply of pieces of their own color. During the...
This abstract includes 120 wooden squares, twelve wooden houses and thirty-two human figures in four colors for a game which is simultaneously about competition and cooperation. At the start there is a deserted, connected and fruitful land. You begin on a square of your choice and expand your territory by building on top of foreign tiles, skilfully placing...
Players try to bring the city-states of ancient Sumer to the fore. Each turn, players boost the importance of one of the city-states by flooding it with their traders, boosting its power. Each time a city-state gains power one will lose power, the aim is to gain control of the pre-eminent city-states during the scoring rounds at the end of each dynasty....
A two-player expansion of the Sumeria board game, released as a promo for the game at Essen '09. It adds 24 more wooden pieces (6 in each of the original player colours) bringing the total to 20 per player. It also includes a sheet of rules and a sticker to show the 4th player turn which only happens in the 2-player game. The whole thing comes packaged in...
Each player gets 18 discs of a color and places them face up in front of him. Alternating the players place now the discs on the board. The first disc could be placed entirely free, all further must be placed in the row or the column where the last chip has been placed. If one has a higher sum than the fellow player thereby in a row, then you turns all...
Lepidoptery is a climbing, deck-shedder and connection game for 2 players. Players try to form 4-in-a-row on the board in their own player color, or shed out their deck to win. Take turns playing stronger and stronger combinations while dropping tokens into the columns matching your played combination types. Unlike many climber-shedders, you are allowed to...