Tessella is a simple but addictive two player abstract. Easier to learn than checkers Has a strategic depth similar to chess or go Uses a completely novel board layout and capturing mechanic Each player has 7 pieces displayed along opposing corners of the board, the goal is to capture 4 pieces of the opponent. On your turn, you can either: MOVE to any...
Tessera is a 2-4 player tile-laying game reminiscent of Dominoes in which players are competing to score the most points. Featuring a Roman mythology theme in which players are attempting to earn the most favour of the Gods, players play cards (featuring beautiful mosaic designs dedicated to one or two Gods) into the Temple grid. The card can adjoin, be...
This game has a 16x16 game board, but the playing pieces move on the 15x15 intersections. The second and third row on each side of the board are the player's home sections, the space between is neutral. Each player has 6 "normal" playing pieces (1 tesseract, 1 cylinder, 1 pyramid, 1 rectangle, 2 stars), 2 large slide bars, 5 small slide bars and 2 crosses....
Inspired by ancient art, Tesserae combines elements of dominoes and jigsaw puzzles to form a game of shapes and patterns. Since it doesn't rely on a square grid, tiles will fit together in interesting and surprising ways. The basic game provides a good blend of strategy and luck, while advanced rules allow for either pure skill games, or ones where luck is...
Two or more players draw a small base of circles in their corner of a paper. Each player stands their pencil on its end and slides it across the paper. A new circle is drawn where the line ended, but the previous circle stays in place. If another player's circle is hit, then that circle is scribbled out. Then, the "shooting" player takes another turn. A...
In テトラコンボ (Tetra Combo), each player controls four colored blocks on a 4x4 game board. They alternate taking turns, moving one block on each turn in order to create tetrominos, a tetromino being a pattern created by four adjacent blocks. (Think of the pieces in Tetris, with five tetrominos being the only shapes possible.) Each time that a player creates a...
This is a chess variant for four players. The chess rules basically apply. Each player has three special figures: 2 tetra-pawns and 1 tetra-queen. The two tetra-pawns are placed in front of the rocks. the tetra-queen enters the game only when a tetra-pawn is promoted to a queen. The tetra-pawn may move up to three spaces straight ahead or up to two spaces...
This book brings together several related exercises in game design. The game of Tetrad itself is the product of an effort to devise a simple game of abstract strategy for four players . . . . The Tetrad board was designed with several considerations in mind: to provide a layout well suited to a four-way game, to accommodate a wide variety of traditional...
Tetrade is a three dimensional boardgame on a triangular board with six holes on each side. Players put spheres in alternate turns and try to occupy the four corners of a tetrahedron with the size of 2,3,4,5 or 6 elements. Three spheres of lower level carry one sphere of higher level. A player succeeding in forming a tetrahedron receives a sphere from the...
Tetragon2 is an abstract strategy game for 2 that can play very quick, or take longer, (15 mn to an hour") depending on the match up. Tetragon2 is a game of creation, and the first player to create two tetragons wins...possibly, the other player gets one more move! The play pieces are triangle in shape, made of maple and walnut, real hard wood! Each player...
This game is a 3D four in a row (Qubic), but represented on a simpler 4 X 4 board. The board is a 4x4 grid and each player has 4 different size rings of his color. The sizes are such that the rings will nest. The object is to complete "a line of four" 4 rings of same color to win the game. Three kinds of alignments on a "line of four" are possible: same...
Drop in and win! "Shape up" strategic thinking skills with TetraTrax. Players slip their puzzle tiles down the rails into the clear tower, and score 1 point for every opposing tile their puzzle tile touches. Watch out, though...you'll lose a point if you leave open spaces in the puzzle. The tension builds as the height of the puzzle grows. Includes game...