A simple children's racing game themed around the story of the kobold Pumuckl (a character from a German radio play and TV series for children). Master Eder (the carpenter with whom Pumuckl lives) has discovered mice in his workshop and is going to bring in the neighbour's cat to catch them. Pumuckl has one last night to play with his little friends before...
A horse racing themed card game. One player is the Bookie and will offer odds on each race. Those odds are determined by how many cards of each colour are randomly drawn before the race starts. If only one red card is drawn, the odds will be better than a colour that has no cards drawn. If 2 are drawn for one colour, the odds increase. And so on. The odds...
An Argentine game, published in the 80's, about horse racing and betting, where mechanics is developed by cards that, at random, determine the progress of the race. It has a strategic and speculative component with the use of cards that do not specify the progress of a particular horse, this being at the discretion of each contributor. It is currently...
"2 points to the first team who brings me a.....gum wrapper!" Watch the mayhem as everyone searches their pockets, purses, backpacks, and surroundings for the item needed. It's up to the leader to determine whether a similar item is close enough ("here's a wrapper from chewy candy!"). This party game is sort of like a scavenger hunt, but it all takes place...
The players race around a circular track to accumulate points. The player pieces are mounted piggyback on neutral "carriers". On your turn, you roll up to three dice (1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3), aiming for 4 or less --one die at a time. If you get 4 or less on two dice, you move twice the amount, if you get it on three, you move thrice. If you total more than 4...
Objective: gather most victory points by racing on & cleaning a meadow - acting/moving by turn - each player draws slides forming a meadow; according the number of blowballs your meeple may move forward - the further the higher the score; but if there isn't space enough to move players create environmental damage, too. During the second phase players move...
The game "Quadriga" was included in Spielbox 4/81 and is the first game of the "Spiel zum Herausnehmen/Game to Remove" series. It depicts the chariot races in ancient Rome. Up to 8 teams race around the track twice to determine victory. Several obstacles and narrow curves make it difficult to drive the chariots. Therefore, accidents are likely to occur and...
Description from the publisher: Chariot races had, in the ancient Rome, lot of followers. Not only the people frequented the races, but emperors, senators, intellectuals, writers crowded the circus. The Aurigae, who drove chariots with two, three, four, sometimes eight or ten horses, where idols of the crowd, but the people didn’t support particularly the...
The object of Quagmire is to move your playing piece from one end of the board to the other, retrieve the "Gem Die" from the "Gem Vault" at the far end of the board, and then return to the starting point to win the game. The game is for 2-6 players and takes 20 minutes to 2 hours to play. The more players, the longer the game. There are many possible paths...