("Cross-country - The Flying Musketeer") Game published by the German Pilsener beer brewery Wicküler in 1973. Theme is an Airship race across North Rhine Westfalia, one of the largest federal states of Germany (the theme is hardly surprising, as NRW was the brewery's location - and is, after an owner change - and their main means of advertising in the...
UBike Tour: Taiwan is a light-hearted card game for 2-4 players to plan their travel in North Taiwan with the convenient public bike system: UBike. It's a delightful mixture of "push your luck" and "tableau building" mechanisms in which you also get to visit some beautiful scenery spots in Taiwan. In this game, players take turns to either: Reveal two...
The weekend is coming and it seems that all the citizens of Zoo Town have had the same idea: to make a weekend escapade! There is only one thing that could ruin this perfect weekend: the dreaded Traffic Jam. Удачная дорога ("Traffic Jam") is a fun card game with simple rules. By playing transportation cards, players determine the traffic on the roads...
ULA is a Finnish acronym meaning "ultra-short wavelength" in relation to radio waves; the English equivalent is VHF or "very high frequency". The game name Ula-taxi (or Ulataksi) refers to the mode of communication between the taxi drivers and the central taxi station. The players are taxi drivers in an unnamed city. They draw assignment cards from a deck...
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...