From the box (translated from Italian): Go to the outer limits of the Solar System with your spaceship, between asteroids, spaceship wrecks and pirates. An ideal 'First Contact' with Space for the young generation that, soon, will really navigate in it. User summary: Anno 3000 is an Italian game published in the '70 about travel and commerce in the Solar...
It is January 14, 1972. You are the commander of an ANSA Icarus interstellar exploration spacecraft. Along with your fellow crew of three astronauts, your mission is to be the first human beings to travel to the nearest star system of Alpha Centauri. To do so, your spacecraft will travel at the speed of light on a ten year round trip mission. ANSA...
This "Scene It?" variant is based on the Christian children's radio show "Adventures in Odyssey." Players take turns rolling a die and moving their character around a game board. There are five different kinds of trivia categories that can be landed on, including two that utilize a DVD player. First person to get to the end of the board wins. The DVD also...
In Ant Swarm, you take on the role of running an ant colony. You will need to acquire Food and Water Pods with your Worker Ants, capture your opponent’s Ants with your Fighter Ants, and, most importantly, protect your Queen Ant from being captured by your opponent’s army. During the game, each player may move either their Worker Ant OR Fighter Ant tiles....
Object of the game is to be the first player to navigate by the points of the compass and reach the South Pole. Each player begins by placing their marker in the red rectangle on the various countries. Players spin a teetotum to find out which direction to travel – north, south, east or west. Players then roll the dice to move the number of spaces in the...
“The spiders are on the march, they have their sights set on Antburger Hill, Grid Ref. 86N 27.4E. The bugle sounds and Ants scurry to man hurried fortifications. With stout hearts the defenders stand in wait for the spiders to rush their hill.” The ants must defend their anthill against the rush of the spider hordes. “Hold that hill at all costs.” Using...
Game from Games and Puzzles magazine, issue 38. The game is for 2-6 players and is played on a board laid out as shown in the diagram. Each track or run is in two parts, the Base along the edge of the board, and the Approach. Each pair of Base and Approach runs would be of a different colour, but are lettered in the diagram for the purpose of...
Each of the players represents a Nuclear Power. The aim of the game is to maintain world peace and avoid nuclear war. An "Arms Spiral" is in the middle of the board, representing the arms race. When the "BOMB" arrives at the end of the Arms Spiral, world peace is over and everyone has lost! However, if all players work together in such a way that one...
The goal is to capture enemy ants to get parts of the ant queen that are pictured on the bottom of the pieces. All ants are magnetic and if the piece that you try to capture repels from your piece that piece captures you instead. Move your 14 ants around on the dice roll, come back to your base and flip the pieces you have caught on your way. The base of...
...fast-paced and fun to play. You never know what's going to happen next! But it's more than a game. Kids will learn the value of gentleness, kindness, loyalty, encouragement, and laughter. They will be reminded of the downfalls of impatience, anger, rudeness, and grudges. ...a great way to learn about friendship while playing a game. ...a fun way to...