One of the most complete books about paper and pencil games in the world. It contains 101 games among traditional, less known and totally original ones, all to be played with just paper and pencils. Featuring contributions by renown game designers as Spartaco Albertarelli, Domenico Di Giorgio, Alessandro Gatti, Dan Glimne, Beppi Menozzi, Paolo Mori, Water...
Diez Negritos (translated as And Then There Were None) is a cooperative board game based on the Agatha Christie novel of the same name. In this game, players take control of a group of characters isolated in a mansion on a lonely island. The characters start getting murdered one after another, and players need to make groups with the characters and send...
From the publisher: Stack them if you can! A clever game of quick thinking with numbers - race to be the first to stack all your number tiles in sequence. 1. Distribute all the tiles, face down, evenly amongst all players. 2. All players look at their own tiles and when they turn over a "1" place it face up in the middle of the players. 3. Players all play...
An assortment of 12 Christmas-themed games. Most are party-type games of one sort or other. They are Christmas Pairs- a basic memory matching game using a deck of cards with Christmas themed illustrations Festive Guesses- a musical game where players try to guess a Christmas song while someone is humming it on a Kazoo Santa's Letters- Player try to come up...
Will you take off from your planet before the supernova? In 12 Parsecs, players simultaneously use rolled dice to build their ships, train cadets, and gather fuel. On your turn, three dice are rolled. Two are used to form two numbers, which fill in spaces on ships to build them, although the numbers must ultimately fit in ascending order. The unused die is...
There is a dangerous virus outbreak and the authorities have instructed people to minimize their social activities and stay at home as much as possible for at least 14 days (the virus’s incubation period) while they decide on how to deal with the situation. You are a group of coworkers trying to handle the whole situation. Will you stay at home or will you...
1648 seeks to portray the "Concert of European Powers" following the Peace of Westphalia. Players assume the role of European statesmen seeking to outclass their geopolitical rivals and attain a position of predominance. The game is based upon Allan B. Calhamer's classic Diplomacy. However, its treatment of minor powers is strikingly different as these...
"and a Guide to the American War of Independence".A standard size booklet of miniatures rules with charts for conducting battles of the AWI. The game scale given is fifteen minutes per turn, one inch equaling twenty yards, and each figure representing twenty men. The basic organizational unit is the battalion/regiment. There are detailed explanations for...
This book contains the Table Top Rules for Naval Battles. The rules are suitable for both fleet actions and also small one on one encounters. It includes an introduction to 18th century naval actions and tactics. The battles are fought on hexagons with fleets manoeuvred with a system using specially designed order cards which players are invited to...
1930! is a game that requires 5 players and you each take leadership of one of the major powers of the time; Great Britain, Germany, France, Russia or Italy. There are also a number of (initially) neutral minor powers countries such as Spain, Belgium, Ireland etc etc. Each country has two key properties: Military strength and Political strength. The...