Parkplatzrennen (=Parking lot race) belongs to the small 4-games series of Children's Games by Pelikan; Hummelchen, Ali Baba and Der kleine Prinz are the other 3 games. It is played on a board showing a 60 space long race track.. 4x11 spaces of the track are coloured in one of the player’s colour. Each player has 3 cars and 1 police officer. The police...
This horse-racing game, undated but likely 1930s, uses a deck of cards to determine movement. The game contains six thick cardboard cards, each having a track of 12 holes from Start to Finish. Each track is marked with one of the suits and represents the horses "Club Foot", "Diamond Jim", "Spade Tail", and "Heart Throb". For the basic Stake Race game, each...
In this game players take the role of politicians in the Australian Parliament. Introduce bills "to turn Sydney Harbour Bridge upside down", or to "make time go metric", or to "ban any work between meals..." and get them passed through the House of Representatives and through the Senate and turn them into Acts. During the game the players will need to...
Be the first to score four touchdowns. Each play is determined by rolling two standard dice and finding the result on a chart. Possible results are touchdowns, gains, sacks, incompletes, interceptions, fumbles, and penalties. Some of the results require the player to flip a special wooden chip, which has a "5" on one side and a "10" on the other, and is...
A 19th century indoor game designed to simulate the sport of Polo. It was described, with rules, in "The Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Games and Sports" (John D Champlin & Arthur E Bostwick), published in 1890 by Henry Holt & Co of New York [hence the US spelling. 'Parlor']. Played on a 15×19 grid of squares, which are shaded alternately like a draughts /...
In the Monopoly Socialism game players move around the board working together to make a better community by managing and contributing to projects such as a no-tip vegan restaurant, an all-winners school, or a museum of co-creation. But nobody said that cooperation is easy! Drawing a Chance card presents the flip side of striving for the perfect utopian...
A game about saving money to deposit at your local credit union. Components: four pawns, one die, four Ledger sheets (laminated heavy cardboard), one large game board, play money. Each player starts with $1.00 in their deposit box; the game is a race to make it to the end of the 37-space track to deposit whatever money they have at the Credit Union. Boxes...
Partán is a game of throwing dice and advancing squares, with a mechanics of interaction between the tiles that makes them "push" each other and pass to another player. The goal is to put 5 tokens in the final tile. Initially, we have 8 tokens in the initial tile. We can only move the tokens that are in our lane. When we move a token, if the adjacent tiles...