Every fourth year there is a student carnival in the university city of Lund, Sweden. This game was published for the carnival of 1986. Basically, it is a variant of Monopoly and Finans with a carnival theme. Players are trying to be the first to collect five floats for the carnival parade. Players roll and move on the board, picking up cards and...
Katastrophy V1.3 The world has been struck by a row of catastrophic events. Your job, as a leader of one of 6 humanitarian organizations, is to rescue as many civilians as possible who are stuck in the catastrophe areas around the world. You will send out officers in order to secure that the civilians, primarily of you organizations secret target group...
It is currently an era of worldwide economic deflation. The politicians of your country seek to understand the common people. Players become the leaders of an opposition party who have taken it upon themselves to reestablish economic responsibility. Each player will bid to enforce a "fair and folksy" price of a variety of goods and services. Each time a...
DKT is similar to monopoly. It is the most successful all-time board game of Austria. It was developed in Vienna in the year 1936 in the printing Office "Stockinger und Morsack" with the name "Spekulation". During WWII the name was changed to DKT - Das kaufmännische Talent because of fear of the German censorship. After the war, in the Fifties, the game...
"The family game of TV fame." Keep It In The Family is a game from the 1950s for two teams based on a TV show. In each round a category of questions is read out and each team bids on the number of correct answers they think they can give, until one team outbids the other. The winning bid is then multiplied by 10 and this is the number of points now at...
In Kerno each player starts with a hand of five cards and eight cards are placed face up on the table. The cards show between two and six dice (for instance a one, a three and a five) as well as a point value (for instance 7). Each player also receives 20 tokens for bidding. Players take turns rolling six dice. After the dice have been rolled, they are...
extrapolated from session report: The theme of the game is based on the legendary necklace of Saba, which went to the grave with its owner upon her death. Sadly, dastardly grave robbers plundered the tomb and the valuable gems which comprised the necklace were scattered across the globe. Now, a wealthy sheik is anxious to reassemble the necklace and...
Crystal blue seas, tropical heat and crazy nightclubs are Key West, the extreme tip of the Florida Keys and a paradise for people who enjoy a wild and thrilling existence, including people like the writer Ernest Hemingway who was attracted by more than just the sea and the bars. How will you make your way there? You might make good money with hotels, but...
Two Mafiosi cards will be placed on two of the seven Key West decks already assembled. Both decks have to be placed aside, they are used in play rounds 6 and 7. In those rounds, during the bid phase, 7 instead of 6 cards are available. In round 8 again only 6 Key West cards can be used. The player who obtains a Mafiosi card acts immediately in the...
Independently produced by British game designer Richard Breese, the three hundred copies of this game sold within hours of its initial offering at Essen 1998. Players represent a family of medieval professionals, such as Stonemasons or Fishermen. Using a set of numbered tokens and some misdirection, players try to achieve control in several areas of the...