Noughts and Crosses ( Tic-Tac-Toe ) with a twist. Each row of the vertical board can be slid one space left and right. If, by moving the row a token moves over an empty spot below then it will drop. If the token is moved over the edge of the "board" then it drops out altogether. This means that only tokens placed in the middle column are safe from ever...
Each sheet of a pad shows a 15X15 grid in which some square have been blacked out. The location of the black squares differs from grid to grid. Players take turns marking non-black squares, with the objective to get three in a row diagonally or orthogonally and thereby scoring three points. Subsequently adding a square to the row means scoring the entire...
Tactyx is played on a 12 x 12 board. There are 4 coloured sections on each edge of the board. Diagonal moves are not allowed. To make this important rule visible all the time, the board is painted with 12 x 12 circles which are connected with vertical and horizontal lines (and no diagonal ones). There are 2 red and 2 black banks on two opposing sides of...
Hnefatafl, also known as The Viking Game, The King's Table or simply Tafl, is one of those two-player games where the opposing sides are not equal in number. The defending side comprises twelve soldiers and a king, who start the game in a cross formation in the center of the board. Their objective is for the king to escape by reaching any of the four...
This is Game #24 in the Games on Half a Checkerboard Series. This game is a fusion of Turkish Checkers with the Tafl family of games. The game combines the jump capture and promotion found in games in the Checkers family, with the win conditions found in games in the Tafl family, with modifications made to both families of abstract strategy games, to work...
Tafl style games like Hnefatafl, Tablut and Halatafl have been popular down the centuries among Vikings and into the Renaissance. A skilled warrior was often buried with a tafl (board) as an honour gift. Round pieces move diagonally (bishop move) and jump orthogonally. Square pieces move orthogonally (rook move) and jump diagonally. Players are trying to...
The object of this abstract game is to place five tokens of one color in a row in any direction on a special 12 by 12 game board grid or to force your opponent into three "traps" -- the twenty red squares on the game board. The four-player version of the game involves team play while the three-player version involves one player alternatively playing...
INTRODUCTION Taigo (taiji + go, the Japanese word for “five”) is a tile-laying game in which both players use the same unique type tile, which has both of their colours, with the goal of creating a 5-in-a-row of their colour. Also the players must fill the ‘holes’ that they will eventually create with cones of either colour. But if the game lasts long...
TAIJI is a strategy board game for 2 players Ages 6 and up. TAIJI is a Chinese term that means ‘Great Duality’ and represents the fight of Good vs. Evil, Light vs. Darkness, YIN vs. YANG. But YIN and YANG are indivisible! That’s why both players use the same indivisible “dual” pieces called TAIJITUS. The object of the game is to get the highest score...
Tailath is a cross between TAIJI and Yavalath, that can be played with a Cross set (7x7x7 hexhex board and pieces in 2 colors) or a OMEGA set (setting up the board to 7x7x7). It was generated by a human searching the game space. RULES: Each player has an allocated color (red or blue). On your turn, you must place one red piece and one blue piece adjacent...