The object of BLACKOUT is to win the game by having the greatest net investment in power plants on the board. Each player owns and operates a power company. Each player strives to improve his competitive position by investing in new regions and power plants, upgrading existing power plants and acquiring competitors' regions and plants through acquisition...
Warning: This game explores issues of racial inequality and it is useful to read the context of the game design before playing. Some may find the method of exploration of these issues offensive. In Blacks & Whites players experience life in the ghetto. Live on Welfare. Try to buy a place in a white suburb. Your challenge: To keep the land-hungry majority...
America’s realest real estate game is back! It’s Blacks & Whites: 50th Anniversary Edition. Fifty years ago, Prof. Robert Sommer and Judy Tart created a socially-conscious version of Monopoly, highlighting the racial inequity of the housing market and capitalism in America. Inspired by the original, the 50th Anniversary Edition features a new foreward by...
Each player is dealt six cards. Each card has a number from one to ten. A player who is dealt a hand totaling thirty-five or more is a Replicant; otherwise one is Human. The object is find a Replicant and destroy one to win the game. A player may take a look at any card in the player's hand by landing on any of the opponent's "VK Monitor Terminals."...
Bland Blommor och Blad ("Among Flowers and Leafs") is an educational game that via dice rolls and set collecting intends to teach the latin names of domestic Swedish flowers. Collecting flowers and learning their names was a compulsory school subject (and considered very important) on the national curriculum in Sweden up to about the 1960's. This fact, and...
Backwards...Left...Any Straight Angle...Right...Forward...let's "BLARF" Each player has five pieces with the letters B, L, A, R or F printed on one side and A on the other. On each turn, players roll a six-sided die and move one piece the number of spaces indicated in the direction allowed for that piece, or in any direction if the piece is resting on a...
In Blasphemy you take part in the fate of a would-be Messiah. Your aim is to convince your compatriots that your Jesus, and your Jesus alone, is the genuine article. To accomplish this, your Jesus must cut as impressive a figure as possible. He must give stirring sermons, perform miracles, attract devoted followers, and generally carry on in a Messiah-like...
Space race game. Object of the game is to move 4 satellites completely around the orbit in a clockwise direction and into their correct position in "Final stage" marked by corresponding colour. Movement of satellites is by the roll of the dice with a 1 or 6 to start a satellite from inside its rocket to the blast off position to begin the orbit . The...
This is a space race game that uses a spinner for movement and has 3 types of cards for different spaces landed upon. The goal is to complete a race around the solar system and back to earth. Entering and leaving planets requires a special roll on the spinner. It is patented - #3985361 and the text below is from the patent. Abstract A game device embodying...