THE SOO LINE is a train game set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. As in many such games, the players invest in railroad companies, building track to increase the company’s income and paying dividends to the shareholders. And as in several of Amabel Holland’s railroad games, track-leasing and cooperation is required to get past high build costs, strict hex...
"You are sorcerous investors, speculating on the fates of various people and places. You might risk your sorcerous gravitas on the Forest and the Huntress, only to lose it all when a bad moon rises in the end. Or you might get a bargain on a Sailor and a Journey, striking it rich when your ship comes in on a favourable wave." An arcane commodity...
In Space Exodus, every player is the captain of their own ship, traveling space together with the human space fleet. You must upgrade your ship, recruit new crewmembers to man your shields and weapons and ultimately battle the hardest foes to achieve victory. Your spaceship consists of different rooms, each represented by a single card. The rooms will...
A game of interstellar trade and conquest. Players explore new worlds, make deals with resources, build fleets and do battle with their fleets, with agents or on the market. Each turn you may: 1.Place a piece 2.Move your ships and/or place agents 3.Bribe stars (to conquer them), battle over stars or build ships. The object of the game is to be the last...
While we’re all spinning around in this fascinating galaxy, play to rule the universe! You could even own Mother Earth! And as you play, flip over the deeds and learn something about each cosmic element you own. Buy favorite celestial bodies and increase your rent by collecting Stars and trading them in for Orbs. Sounds easy enough until your launch fails...
In a galaxy far, far away... The pig clans are in a furious competition to control the planets which produce the precious acorns from which the Beer can be brewed. The Beer is a source of power and strength for those who drink it. You are the head one of the six great pig clans; you must impose your Beer recipe and thus become the most powerful pigs in the...
“Bidding & Placement Game. Each player represents a space agency: NASA, European Union, Russia, Japan, etc. Players are working together to build the ISS (International Space Station). Players add Modules and score points.” The game is played on a chess board or other 8x8 grid. The center four spaces of the board represent the Core Command and Control...
This game is being revised. I wouldn't suggest playing by the posted rules. 3/30/09 The people of Earth make a lot of trash, and there's no sign this will change anytime soon. Crates full of banana peels, boxes of secondhand chicken poop, industrial mumbo-whatever, it's all here, and it needs to go somewhere. At one point, a fantastic US President said...
SPADE TOWN CHALLENGE is one of a series of Monopoly style board game developed by local YMCAs in the UK to generate funds for their activities. The games in the series are essentially the same, but as in the different versions of Monopoly, the board and the businesses are specifically themed to the town or city represented in the title - in this case the...
Spain Rails takes us back to the tumultuous time of the creation of railways in Spain in the 1800s. Unlike other countries, there was no real standardization or controls, it was reminiscent of the old west, with a plethora of rail gauges and no real government controls. The game is for 3-5 players for about 90 minutes, the player with most money wins the...