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...
Players are retail store owners who supply body parts to the local mad scientists. Viktor, a mad scientist, goes around window shopping. Whenever he stops to look at a particular type of parts, a demand for that type of part is created; all the parts at the cheapest price get sold. If there is still a demand, all the parts at the next cheapest price get...