1994 anti-nationalized healthcare game in response to the early, failed attempts by the Clinton administration to introduce a system like Obamacare. The object of the game is to outlive the other players and benefit the most, financially, from a nationalized healthcare system. The instruction book is filled with right-wing sarcasm -- the playing pieces...
In this game, children learn how to protect nature and how to sensibly handle garbage. On their turn, the player moves their meeple towards garbage in their respective player colour. If they reach garbage in their colour, they "pick it up" with their pawn. The meeple can only carry one piece of garbage at a time, so it has to return to the bin and put the...
The Story behind of this dice driven game is the truck convoy to Romanian orphanages. The board game shows multiple tracks from Germany to Romainia. There are many different Action fields. Some of them you need to hit, e.g. phone, gas station in each country and Orphanage in Romainia. On some fields you can upgrade your convoy. New truck, new trailer, good...
A Cyclo-Cross / mountain bike board game published in 2013 in the UK. There are two editions of the game, named "Slim" and "Pokket". The rules for the smaller "Pokket" game are a simplified version of the already simple rules for the bigger "Slim" game. The game uses a roll & move mechanic as the players race over a track that features mountains, to reach...
Hilton Head Island Fever can be best described as a Monopoly variant. Players move around a board and can buy properties by landing on them and having the appropriate card in hand. The businesses on the board are (or were) actual businesses on Hilton Head Island. The goal of the game is to be the first person to make $250,000 and land on their plantation...
Players move their mountain climber and Sherpas along the arduous path to the great summit. Avalanches, landslides and the unpredictable Yeti impede the long march. By skillful positioning in the game, one can withstand the adverse climate of the mountain. Whoever arrives first on the summit wins. 4th Place 1995 Hippodice Spieleautorenwettbewerb (as...
A very old pair of games (1930s?) in German. Himmel und Erde is a chutes and ladders type game where players travel from Spring through Christmas by either going on the Earth or through Heaven. The description on the box cover states "Das lustige Wurfelspiel der bunten Welt im Jarheslauf". Die Tierschau has pictures of animals with a pair of dice with...
The players have to get their 4 pawns into the blue center space (heaven). Movement is dertermined by a die. The 5th pawn is called "hellhound" and is placed on the big ringed space of it's own color to guard the neighbouring hell of the same color. Enemy pawns may be captured while moving on the outher ring of the game board and are placed on the...