The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri begins among the punishments of sins and ends with the beatitudes of virtues. Join Dante and Virgil in their journey through the Circles of Hell until... we again behold the stars. Through a "spiral" draft, players must collect Encounter cards with different numbers (possibly just a single copy) in order to convert...
This is an easy playing card game which is something like Old Maid and Simple Rummy. Players pick cards from each other's hands trying to get matching pairs of comic strip characters and most important, 4 cards in numerical order of their own kind to form a comic strip. Players have to avoid the "bad" cards while picking the ones they need to score points...
User summary A quirky comic-based card game where the players play cards from their hand onto the panels of a comic book, trying to elevate the popularity of the character specified on the card. The game mechanisms involve blocking and card drafting. Game comes with one deck of cards and four 20p comic books (uncluding manual). Translated card box back A...
A family gin-rummy style game where players take turns drawing and discarding cards while trying to get a set of the ten commandments, but watch out for rebellions and the greatest commandment cards that can make and break sets of commandments quickly. Collect one each of the Commandment cards before anyone else - including a Greatest Commandment card. Get...
This game is from 1900 and was published by the J. Ottmann Litho Company of New York. The directions say that Commerce is "the most amusing game on the market" The game is comprised of a deck of cards with 8 suits (Pork, Sugar, Cotton, Corn, Coffee, Oats, Flour and Butter) of 6 cards in each suit, making 48 cards in all. After shuffling the cards, deal...
Pit is an open-outcry commodity trading game. The first edition in 1903 had a deck of 63 cards, 9 each of 7 commodities, each with a value (ranging from 40 for Flax to 100 for Wheat). Players offer trades by crying out the number of cards they want to swap (“One! One! One!”, or “Three! Three! Three!”) but not their identity. The winner of the hand is the...
Commissioned is a 2-6 player cooperative-style board game with a simple deck-building mechanism that plays in 1 hour. Players are the early Christian Apostles and must work together to mature their faith decks, grow the church, collect the books of the New Testament, and overcome persecution. You do not need to know anything about Christianity to play. The...