七福廊 (Shichi Fukurou) is a 2 player card game from Japan. Players are trying to collect seven wise owls to win, or lose getting the five unhappy cats. The publisher says the English title is Seven Lucky Owls. The Japanese title is likely a reference to the Shichi Fukujin (七福神), the Seven Lucky Gods; replacing the word fukurou (梟; owl) with a clever...
User summary 七味ならべ (Shitimi Narabe) is a Japanese game of speed and recognition. (Shichimi is standard spelling rather than Shitimi). Shitimi Togarashi is a Japanese spice mixture, which contains red chili pepper and six other ingredients which vary depending on producers. In the game of Shitimi Narabe, you form a set of seven spices including chili pepper...
You work for the council in a small town, and this year have 'volunteered' to organise the town's Christmas decorations. It's important to do a good job, to cheer up the townspeople as we head into winter... but it's more important to ensure that more people turn up to your lights switch-on ceremony than those of other towns around the county - your job...
Splatch, Katch, Shlak! It's a collectible game similar to pog but it uses larger discs made of metal. Each player put on the ground a pile of the same number of Shlaks (the metallic discs). With the use of a Splatch (a sort of giant plastic hand) the pile is hit and shuffled around. The player, in their turn, try to catch as many shlaks as possible using...
Step into the refined world of Shochikubai (松竹梅), a strategic trick-taking game inspired by Japan’s traditional tiered ranking system of pine, bamboo, and plum. Players compete to win tricks using cards that must follow lead suit—or may follow—a previously played rank in the trick, carefully balancing the strength of their suits with the potential to...
Inspired by the traditional Italian game of Scopa, Shokoba is a card game in which two to four players play cards from their hands to collect jewel cards from the table. (With four players, Shokoba is typically played in teams.) The forty-card deck consists of 27 sapphires, 9 rubies, 3 emeralds and 1 diamond. At the start of a round, each player receives...
The object of this game is to have the lowest final score after seven (7) hands of play. There are two decks of cards, each consisting of five colour-coded suits of fifteen cards, plus one SHOOT THE MOON card, one GO CHICKEN card, and two PLAYING HANDS (reference) cards. There are also includes twenty-one tokens, a three compartment tray, and two score...
The annual pheasant shoot at Leverstoke Hall is always eagerly anticipated and forms the principal topic of speculation at September soirees across four counties. This year promises to be no exception, with two dozen of the region's most prominent landowners shortly to descend upon those hallowed woods for a weekend of impeccable social graces and bloody...