OVER THE HILL is a Poker variant with a trivia element thrown in. The game contains a pack of playing cards with 12 cards of each value from 1 to 6. The first player is dealt a hand of 5 cards which he looks at before declaring the value of his hand (hands are valued in the same way as for Poker Dice - Four of a kind beats a Full House, beats a Straight...
Looking for an alternative to three-dragon ante? Arena is an easy to learn dice and cards game where players select terrible monsters and force them to face off against one another for gold and glory! —description from the publisher Arena is published as a print-and-play game requiring each player to have three standard dice. The document includes...
Arena of the Elders is a competitive strategy battle arena game for 2-8 players set in a fantasy world. Games can last between 30 and 90 minutes. Players divide themselves into two teams. Each team controls a deck containing four heroes, two towers, and thirty spells. Teams must fight with their heroes, destroy enemy towers, and capture the enemy flag to...
The goal is to rise your firms stock times 20 it was at the beginning of the game. The whole game is a cross-breed from Monopoly and Cashflow. Each player gets one firm at the beginning of the game and starts to develop it step-by-step by moving from the developers track to the wall street track and from there to the win. During the game you do a lot of...
In a nutshell: Perudo (q.v.) with cards. There are fifty cards. Each card contains a fine of $10, $20 or $30 and a license plate of six digits. At least one digit is repeated on each card. A number of cards are dealt to the players. If there are less than six playing, at least one stack of cards is placed in the center of the playing surface. The players...
In Arlequin, each player in turn, draw 2 to 5 cards and announces a combination of cards to his neighbor who accepts or checks this combination. If he accepts, he must himself annouces a greater combination of cards. If he checks, and the annonced combination is a bluff, the player how bluff will loses points,... but if that was not a bluff the player who...
Art Smart is an art auction game for 3-5 players in which all players buy and sell art – but watch out for fake pieces. Depending on the number of players each player gets dealt a number of Painting cards and an equal number of Fake/Real cards. Every round of the game is an auction where a Painting card gets auctioned off in which the auctioneer...
Arxhenge is a castle stronghold and like all strongholds, it keeps something safe, in this case, an enormous cache of treasure. The goal of the games is to enter this immense and mysterious citadel, steal its treasure, and escape with it before your opponent does the same. There are three different games with a couple of variations that we play on the...
This Persian game uses a special deck of 25 cards in 5 suits. Two cards are dealt to each of the five players. They bet or fold. Each player remaining in the game is dealt two more cards. They make an additional bet or fold. Each remaining player gets a fifth and final card, then they bet a final time or fold. Those who are still in the game show their...
This early game from John Jacques featured a very unique method of determining the winner of the race. The game itself was a large wooden box. It had up to 8 horses attached to the box with wires. A hand crank on the side of the box attached to the horses by a variety of gears was turned resulting in a different horse winning the race. Players bet on which...
Ascot is a horse race betting game for 2 to 18 players. The game consists of the game board (six racing lines – one for each horse, numbered columns, representing forwards or backwards movements), 6 horses in 6 different colors, 108 betting slips (each 18 in the colors of the horses), and 72 movement cards in a neutral color. For each horse, there are 12...