Das Umzugsspiel ("Change of Residence") was published in the Swiss gaming zine "AHA/Der schwarze Peter" #89/1. The board shows a fictive city map with a furniture warehouse in the middle and 4 residences in each corner. Object of the game is to move his 7 furniture pieces from the starting residence to the residence at the opposing edge of the board with...
In a remote mountain range, unnatural weather changes have occured for several months. Sunshine, rainfall, snowstorms, coming and going in seemingly random fashion. As a result, the flora is showing previously unobserved developments. Thunderstrikes and avalanches have revealed curious minerals. Now scientists and researchers from various disciplines race...
In Undermining, players dig for resources on an alien world, making the best of the actions available to them to achieve short term goals (such as obtaining particular resources) while upgrading their Universal Mining Vehicles—UMVees—and fulfilling contracts in the long term. To win, you need to earn more "star bucks" than anyone else, and you earn those...
Underworld Couriers is a pick-up and deliver game with a twist. Players are couriers contracted to carry illicit goods around a map of the globe. Using a timeline, players must plan the most effective mode of travel between pick-up point and delivery location (air, road, rail or ship). Each of these types of transport takes travels at a different speed...
Goal - To launch at least five hot air balloons (take-off), with navigation cards (see below), before the fourth sunrise. The players play as a team and help each other complete take-off sets by sharing and exchanging cards with one another. Starting the game - Place the deck of cards in the middle, face down. Playing the game - Each player, in turn, draws...
From the turn of the 20th century, Chicago's Union Station rose to prominence as one of the busiest and most used train station hubs in the United States. At one point, five railroad companies each owned stock in the Chicago Union Station Co, collaborating to build the greatest train station at the time. Union Station is a quick-playing cube rails game...
The Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads compete to build the most track in the creation of America's transcontinental railroad, 1864-1869. This interesting card game for two players has all the elements that lovers of train games fawn after. Players use cards to generate rail, trains, commodity production, demand for commodities, bank failures...
Each player starts with $10,000 and a pawn at Bangor, Maine. There are three cards for each of eight commodities. Each commodity may be bought, one at a time, in any one of three different cities. Each commodity may be sold when a player holds all three cards of that commodity at a profit in San Francisco, St. Louis and New York. Players are free to barter...
An interesting card game where players try to complete three canoes using various cards with parts of the canoes on them. These include: Indians or empty sections of the canoe, Prey or Booty (Birds, Skins, Tobacco, Firewater, Teepees, Powder Kegs), Hunters (Bear hunter, Buffalo hunter, Cowboy, Gold prospector, Lumberjack, Soldier), Hunters Prey (Bear...
In this one to two player game you construct a city with cards, complete with roads, bike paths and subways. Once your city is constructed you equip your driver by spending points you earned building your city, then race around delivering food. In the solo game with a definite win lose condition. You need to deliver a certain number of orders in the number...
Urbs & Civitas introduces the fundamental concepts of street addressing in the urban context all the while demonstrating the importance of its derived benefits: revenue generation, crime reduction, increased commerce & tourism, improved public health & safety, and good governance. Integrating street addressing as the foundational tool in the urban...