Each player starts the game in charge of a small wine trading company with contacts to wineries in three different countries. Your company is represented on the board by a wine merchant and a buyer. These pawns move around the board in hope of buying fine wines and their requisite grapes. A wine and grape combination together form an agency. The game ends...
This is a one-of-a-kind prototype game designed specifically for the 2009 Gulf Games 23 Convention, held in Chattanooga, Tennessee, at the "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" Holiday Inn in the historic railroad station. The game is somewhat based on Rail Baron, the classic Avalon Hill game, but utilizing auctioning of rail lines on cards as the mechanic. Whereas Rail...
Cheater is a Rummy type game with one person having special powers. There are 4 suits of cards with the letters C, H, E, A, T, R on them. With 7 cards in hand the goal is to acquire the cards to spell CHEATER in one suit (color). There are also special cards that allow you to search and take a card from someone else's hand, expose a players hand to all...
This game came with a TI-400 5-function calculator. Setup: give each player a checkout counter (board) and $23. Each board has spaces for 4 servings each of Fruit & Vegetables, Bread & Cereal, and Dairy, and 2 spaces each for Meat and Bonus items. On turn, spin the spinner then draw a card from the food group matching the color spun and decide if you want...
It's the start of the day, and you are late for work! You rush to your favorite convenience store to grab some breakfast, but unfortunately, it's everyone else's favorite, too! The clock is ticking, and speed is of the essence! Grab what you can before others can get their grubby hands on it, and be the first in queue to check out to get priority access to...
The deck consists of 48 food cards, each displaying one of six kinds of food, including three cheese cards. The nine cards in each of the five non-cheese foods (suits) are numbered in such a way that each such suit contains three triplets that add up to twenty five, eg, 4, 6, and 15. The object is to collect the most triplets. Each player begins with a...
This is a game for children who like to play doctor. The vertical board features a picture of Charlie who "has the Icky Wickys and needs you to help him feel better!" On your turn, you select what sort of check-up you'd like to perform: Ear Scope Check-Up, Thermometer Check-Up, X-Ray Check-Up, or the Ankle Cast Check-up (which must be done last). Each...
A simple die-rolling game for children, where everyone has to visit different shops and fill their shopping list first. Everyone has a shopping list with five different things on it. The number of items also ranges from one to five. Shops are colour co-ordinated - bakery is orange, market green etc. There are coloured squares on the list as well - bread is...
The push-your-luck game Cheeky Monkey includes eight sets of animals – three elephants, four seals, and so on up to ten monkeys – with a plastic chip representing each animal. To start the game, you place all the chips in a bag. On a turn, a player may draw chips until either (1) he chooses to stop or (2) he draws an animal that he has lying in front of...