Chancellorsville was the third "Tournament" wargame from The Avalon Hill Game Co. It marked the introduction of hex based maps to the hobby (contemporaneously with D-Day and Gettysburg) It also marked an unfortunate experiment in early wargame map graphics -- instead of using illustrations to depict terrain features, the hexes were simply filled with a...
ChanZes.R is a two-player dice game using 3 six-sided dice that show numbers from one to five and one blank face. Players sit opposite a honey-comb board (side of 3 hexagons) where corners have 3 numbers (1 to 5 or blank) next to them. The 3- and 4-hexagon rows nearest a player and the central row of 5 hexagons are considered that player's playing field...
Once upon a time there was an enchanted forest in a magical land where a playful lioness cub happened upon a storybook with the most wonderful tales. Little lioness imagined herself as the main character with a flowing cape and super strength. She showed the book to all her creature friends, who also dreamed of what it would be like to be one of these...
From the box: LDS (as in Latter-Day-Saints) Sketch Charades is a game of charades identifying words or phrases familiar to Latter-day Saints by drawing simple pictures rather than acting them out. As you identify the sketches you advance from "Earth" to the "Celestial Kingdom" on the game board. LDS Sketch Charades has nearly 3,000 words or phrases in two...
You’ve seen the sprinkler, you’ve even seen the lawn mower, but you have never seen anything like this. You get a 40 second song clip during your turn. You dance as many items as you can. For the items other people guess correctly, you get one point. BUT HERE IS THE TWIST! You get rewarded points from others if your dancing is awesome. Everyone else has...
"Solo Dice & Record Keeping Game. Simulation of the Charge of the Light Brigade, the final phase of battle of Balaclava in 1854." "Materials: Six sided Dice, Paper, Pencil. Your Men: The player controls a British cavalry group of 12 men known as a ‘Troop.’ All men are mounted on horses. All men are armed with a sword. One of the men is the Captain, the...
Charge of the Light Brigade is a solitaire, tactical game depicting the Crimean War "charge of the noble 600" during the Battle of Balaclava, October 25th, 1854, made famous by Tennyson. The game is low complexity, and emphasizes high playability and historicity. As Lord Cardigan, commander of the British Light Brigade, you have received orders from your...
"Commander’s Log - Solardate 11.12.30 Due to an unforeseen systems malfunction, while passing through an anomaly, our warp drive has lost all power. Additionally, it has managed to power down all of our weapons systems onboard the U.S.S. Frontiersman. Usually, such a malfunction would be little more than a minor setback. It may even prove a useful piece of...
Château Gardens is a polyomino-drawing game where players compete to draw the optimal arrangement of plants and viewing platforms around a French Château. Players draw cards from a standard deck of playing card to learn what size, shape, and/or location of polyomino they must draw in their garden, or what noble's viewing platform they must add to combo off...
Discover the letters secretly in your opponents hand by suggesting them words related to a given theme. How much letters does the word contain ? One ? Two ? Three ? Will you be the first to guess which one ? Tentez de découvrir les lettres secrètes de votre adversaire en lui proposant des mots sur différentes thématiques ... Combien de ses lettres s’y...
This a a 2 player game by the designer Shane "Bogue" Bogardus. This read and write 1 v 1 competitive game is an easy way to interact with our companion on a dinner date or at any restaurant table. You both simultaneously read the menu searching out specific words that match the random matching card given to each player. The first player to score a row...