A strategic two-player abstract with a heavy deduction element. At the start of the game, neither player knows how their own pieces move. Via performing attempted moves, each player tries to deduce the movement of their own pieces. As you determine how to move your pieces, your goal is to capture the neutral piece, initially located in the center of the...
Congo Line is a game where goods move from city to city across the Congo. During each turn, players will chose whether to load their goods onto a train or move a train toward the next city. Players also have the opportunity to purchase stock in the train companies as well. When a train reaches the next city, stocks and goods are converted into money. At...
Your mission is a deadly one, find the Laser Diamond in the City of Zinj. If fear doesn't stop you - hippos, earthquakes and gray gorillas just might, Can the expedition survive long enough to reach the city, then find the hidden diamond? Set your life energy dial. Then roll the dice to follow the jungle path. Escape danger by spinning special spinners and...
In Connecting Flights, players take a role of airline managers who compete for passengers and resources required to fly them to their desired destinations. Players make money for each transported passenger, with the player making the most money in the last round being the winner. The airport, plane and passenger cards, which can be purchased in auctions...
The board displays thirty planets which are randomly connected by "warps" (the warps change each game). The game generally involves moving to planets with raw materials and transporting the raw materials to your home planet (or in some scenarios, to any home planet). Combat can occur between ships that arrive at the same planet, and some scenarios are...
There are four capitals, four bankbooks, one top secret briefcase and eight greedy spies that anyone can control. The object is to move the briefcase to your headquarters. Players can either secretly pay off or openly move a spy one space on their turn. Each player has an account of $10,000 and can bribe spies in increments of at least $100. If you move a...
Constellation is an exciting space adventure game. The year is 3001 and you are a finalist in the great Constellation Space Race. As a spaceship captain you are dealt three of the 88 constellation cards at random. Now the race begins...choose a pewter spaceship and roll the die. To travel through space you either have to answer questions or follow actions....
From Boardgame News Spiel 2008 Preview: Container: The Second Shipment includes four different expansions that can be mixed and matched as players want. These expansions are: Luxury Containers — In addition to the other containers, players add 12, 16, or 20 gold luxury containers to the supply. As a pre-turn action, a player can convert two containers in...
From the Instructions: "The object of Contraband is for a player to become the wealthiest by purchasing 100 pound bundles of foreign and domestic grown plants, smuggling them into the United States or Canada, and selling them for fantastic amounts of cash." Player collect bundles from Mexico, Hawaii, Colombia, and Jamaica, and then travel North where they...
"Control Tower" is a family boardgame about the management of the planes in an airport. The players are air controllers who must land and take off the planes and distribute those planes in the diferent areas of the airport like repair/maintenance garage or refuelling to satisfice their requeriments. The game has three phases. Twice of them are played...
As Soviet entrepreneurs in the game Conversion (Конверсия), players attempt to expand their businesses by exploiting the shifting exchange rate between the Soviet Union and the rest of the world. The basic structure of the game is to mine raw materials, convert them to goods, and then either sell these at home or transport and sell them elsewhere. However...
Convoy is played on a board with 48 circles. On each of the four sides are 4 circles colored red, green, blue, and yellow, to indicate players who own these colors. Each player takes four ships of his color and one cargo block of the same color. The object of the game is to transport the cargo across the board to any circle on the outside edge directly...