Transet is a chess variant played on a 5x5 grid using 5 pieces: rook, bishop, king, bishop and rook. The goal of the game is to reach the opposite side of the board with one of your pieces. The rook can only move one step straight forward, the bishop one step diagonally forward and the king combines the power of the rook and the bishop. The game only has 5...
Transfer is a simple abstract 2-player game that is played on a 4x4 grid. Each player starts with 4 egg-cups, in one of two colors, on the base row of the grid, with a ball on the two corner ones. The aim is to be the first player to move these cups to the baseline of the opponent and get the 2 balls again onto the 2 egg-cups on the edges. If the starting...
The gaming board consists of a middle column of nine rows that each can hold up to five tiles. To the left and right of this column, there are two sliding platforms that can hold up to three tiles. The starting player distributes 35 colored tiles (seven colors with five tiles each) on the nine rows in the middle. Then players take turn of loading and...
A very old game where each player attempts to place three of their markers (usually an X or an O) in a line on a 3x3 grid. The Romans called this game Terni Lapilli (this does not appear to be true, Terni Lapilli seems to be a distinct and separate game). It shares the board but the players only have 3 pieces each. The same game may be played not on the...
A simple strategy game using Icehouse pieces. Players add pieces to a 3x3 grid whose boundaries are defined by the pieces played. A player wins by creating a line of 3 pieces of the same size. Nests of pieces count only as the top piece, Trees count as any piece in the tree. A player loses if they have no legal move on their turn. Exception: if all pieces...
Martian Tic-Tac-Toe is an Icehouse game for 2 players played on a 3x3 square board. Each player starts with a stash of three small pieces, three medium pieces and three large pieces, all of one color. On each player's first turn, that player must place a small piece into a square. After that each player may make one of the following moves: 1. Place a small...
A strategic boardgame by TLM to introduce people and employees to their company concepts. You are the boss of a company. Your goal is to fill the companies grid with the indicated number of employees. Therefore, you can recruit them on the board, or make them evolve inside your company's grid. Throughout the game, the itransitions cards will reveal...
From the publisher's brochure: "The 10x10 grid of the Transpose board serves for several excellent games. In "Transpose," be the first to exit 8 checkers off the board, but watch out... some opposing pieces may switch places with yours! In "Peregrine," circumnavigate the board's perimeter to bring 5 checkers to the exit point; they can travel as stacks to...
Starting with a sequence of numbered cards, arranged in ascending order left-to-right, players take turns to swap two cards but can only swap cards that originally had the lower value on the left. One player aims to arrange all odd cards in reverse order, the other aims to do the same for all even cards. At the start of the game, any two cards may be...
Transsib (later Published by Winsome) is a game about mafia gangs selling goods during a journey on the Transsiberian Railway. The board depicts the Transsiberian Railway and a few of the stations along it - starting at Irkusk and ending in Moscow. There is also a picture of 6 green passenger cars and one restaurant car, and finally there is a table which...
From the box: Trap is a fast-playing, exciting version of an ancient oriental game. On a board with hexagonal spaces, each player has three men and a fistful of wall segments. On a turn, the player can do one of the following: 1. Move one man two spaces (doesn't have to be in a straight line.) 2. Move two men one space each 3. Move one man one space, and...