UNITY is a board game for 2 to 3 players, in which each player strives to unite his pieces… at any cost. By sacrificing the right pieces at crucial moments, you can shatter your opponents' groups as they coalesce, or eliminate a pesky splinter group of your own pieces — anything to create unity. In UNITY, each player’s pieces start dispersed on the board....
In Universal Elements, two or more players race against each other to forge our solar system by combining the five basic elements (Water, Air, Fire, Earth, and Dark). The first player(s) to forge all celestial bodies on a Star Map wins. After each round of forging, players are affected by a new Chaos card. There's no telling what's out there! Often helping...
Parker Brothers pentomino game for 2 to 4. Play the last piece to win the game. This game is an updated version of the earlier Pan-Kai by the same author, to which Universe adds the three and four players variants. The game box featured publicity stills from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey." In the movie, one of astronauts plays Universe with Hal (the...
In the dexterity game Universe, up to four players use marbles, dice and disks as ships and flick, roll, or spin their way into the Universe. It's shuffleboard, pinball, marbles, crokinole, craps, bocci ball, and even a bit of golf — but with the fingers — synchronized into one. You can go for points, planet ownership, or the black hole, and whoever has...
Unknot is played on a hexhex board oriented so that there is a horizontal line of adjacent cells between one pair of two opposing corner cells. Both players share a pool of stones of a single color and take turns placing then onto empty cells. Placement restrictions. The center cell is unplayable throughout the game. Player 1 may not place immediately...
Unkraut is a game of dominance between four kinds of weeds in a common garden space. Players draw two pentagon tiles and place one of them on a shared field, building up entangled formations of plants. At the same time players bet on the weed, that they think will be the strongest by simply keeping the other tile they drew secret. Combining bug icons...
Unlace is a blocking game (a game of fighting for room to move) derived from Squish. Starting with the same layout as in Squish, players take turns moving one of their friendly pieces to an adjacent space. However, the moved piece must belong to a larger group than the one before the move. The player who fails to move during their turn loses. This game is...
In To Unlimited, and Beyond, a.k.a. Chip It, players need to rid themselves of both cards and chips to win the game. The problem? Getting rid of your cards might require you to take chips! Each player starts the game with a random hand of cards and a few chips. On a turn, you either play cards to the center of the table (with you beating the cards...
The game is as simple as the name. The whole of UNLOCKED is based around the theme of skeleton keys and their many components. UNLOCKED features 2 decks of cards. There are the key cards, and the key component cards. The key components can be assembled to create any of the keys on the key cards. The game begins with the dealer (who has already dealt every...
Unlur, the winner of the 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition (sponsored by About Board Games, Abstract Games Magazine, and the Strategy Gaming Society), is an abstract strategy game played on a hexagon-shaped tessellation of hexagons with eight hexagons on each side. Unlur is also a game of unequal forces -- each player has a different objective....
Players draw hands of tiles with color and number and arrow markings. Much like in the card-based UNO, each player must play the next tile that matches either the color or number of the previous one played. However in UNO Wild Tiles, they must play it on the space indicated by the arrow on the previous tile, and may place their own tile so that the arrow...