For years prospectors, speculators, and frontier folk flocked to remote areas of the American Southwest in search of their fortunes. Makeshift towns cropped up around rich mines of copper, silver, gold and other precious commodities, only to fade away as the resources ran out. Now only ghost towns are left as testament to the community that once lived...
This simple game is played with a standard deck of cards. There is a pot won by the player who holds the highest trump at the end of the game. Each player is dealt 3 cards face down, and a trump is chosen. In a turn a player reveals the top card of her stack. If it is the highest trump at that moment, it can be kept or sold. This continues until all the...
Speculation is a game about having as much worth as possible when the game ends. And unlike some Monopoly-like games, this one definitely ends when one of the draw piles are empty. You start the game with €150,000 and that's all the money you get from the bank. No beauty contests to win here, so you'd better spend them wisely. You will get cards with...
Speculation is an auction and strategy game for 2-6 players, built around property acquisition in a metropolitan area. The object of the game is to amass the greatest wealth through property ownership. Players first compete in an auction to purchase options on the various properties. An option gives a player the right to purchase a property, if they can...
The Speicherstadt is an auction card game. Players compete for victory points, which come mainly from contracts (sets of resources) and special cards (like a collected set of 1-4 identical "counting offices", the port rewarding collected ship cards etc.). The game is built on two core concepts: 1. Players bid for cards by building "towers" with their...
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Game description from the publisher: With Kaispeicher, there will be even more to do between the warehouses and channels of The Speicherstadt. This expansion adds new wares and cards to the game, including not only new buildings, orders and ships, but also several actions that will allow you to gain an advantage or make life difficult for your opponents....
Unusual, tetrahedral board with 121 dice in three colors. A series of games, some involving dexterity, other abstract movement. A gaming system in which the inventor encourages players to devise new games. Aesthetically interesting. First published by Edition Perlhuhn in 1980 (301 dice for 57 games), by Kosmos in 1986 (281 dice) and re-issued by Abacus in...
A simply and funny business game, Urs Hostettler created for the "Migros Genossenschaft Bern". Migros is the largest supermarket-enterprise in Switzerland. The game was part of the annual business rapport, every member of the cooperative got one. The game was never sold in shops. The rules were written in the business rapport, and there were some funny...
A trick-taking game based on winning electoral votes. There is a card for each state, with the value of their electoral vote total (as in 1976); they are split into two suits so the votes are split evenly. (The cards also have common info about each state: capitol, population, area, state bird/tree/flower, etc.) There is also a card for D.C., and 3 cards...
The game is based on the popular 80's television series of the same name... Each player is a world leader with three scandals to protect. The object of the game is to expose all the other players' scandals before they expose yours. No dice are involved. A player may choose to move between one and six spaces clockwise around the board. The player then...
Spitzbub is a bidding and bluffing game with 66 cards: 9 times the number cards 1 to 6 and 12 jokers, which can copy any number card. Each player has 6 cards on their hand. It is played in turn. The player picks one or more cards from their hand and the value of the cards, e. g. two times wolf (value 3). The player must claim that all of their cards have...