In Penalty, players compete in an ice hockey match. The game is played over three periods (or rounds). Each player starts a period with coins valued 5 (x1), 2 (x5), and 1 (x10). Each period consists of several duels. In a duel, the player who reveals the highest value of coins in their hand wins the duel and moves the puck down the ice (the game board)....
The 5th Century - the Eagle of Rome has retreated from British shores. British tribes are surrounded on all sides by Saxons, Picts, and the Irish. The fiercely independent tribes must elect a high king, the Pendragon, to unite them under a single banner. Will you be the leader strong enough to claim this crown? Pendragon is a conflict-based worker...
This book by David Parlett sets out rules for a very large selection of games. The book is laid out by 'families' of games and details main rules for each game plus a plethora of variations. It also includes an introduction to card games and a glossary of terms. The latest edition (from 2008, cover pictured) also includes some original games by David...
Penniless and Insane is a simple auction game with a twist: the lowest bid takes the good stuff, but the object is to run out of money. Every player is a frustrated artist nearing the end of a wasted life. With no inspiration and a lackluster body of work, your newfound ambition is to die penniless and insane. You believe that this will make your work more...
Pennsylvania Railroad is a big game, with a three panel mapboard, and it has the Pennsylvania Railroad, the New York Central Railroad, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, the Boston & Maine Railroad and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. The map stretches from Maine to Virginia, Missouri to Canada. The game is for 3 to 6...
Set during the tumultuous 'yellow journalism' years at the end of the 19th century, Penny Press has players taking on the role of newspaper magnates such as Pulitzer and Hearst as they strive to become the dominant paper in old New York City. Players move up on the circulation track throughout the game by publishing newspapers, and they are awarded bonuses...
Description from the publisher: With this board game you will experience the criminal world of Penoza. You take the role of person who suddenly receives some packages of coke. Telling the police is no option and you can definitely use some money so selling them would be the best idea. You decide to sell the drugs to clear your debts. In the beginning you...
The players are Paranormal Investigators in the 1920's, trying to foil the attempts of the Pentaghastal Society to summon the devil Yangoogilathl. Play proceeds in a continuous 3-round cycle. Each round consists of an Auction Phase (one auction) and an Action Phase (executing one or several actions on the board). After every Third Round, a Scoring Round...
The object of the game is to bring pearls to Scheherazade. An Arabian Nights themed game. At the beginning of the game, every player receives a secret color card. The color of the secret card designates the color of the harem's room to be reached. Each round is divided in two phases. The first phase determines who can move, in the second phase, 1 camel and...
From the designer: The game that has certain elements of such well-known games as dominos, liar's dice and bridge but with new limitations placed on the tiles and on the procedure. The game is played on a board having seven hexagonal areas of the same size, each being subdivided into six equilateral triangles of the same size, and thirty-six tiles of the...