A word game. The pieces have both letters and black squares on them. The objective is to use all your tiles by making a correct Crossword. The player wins if he has used his last tile. It can be played as a puzzle or it can be played competitively. The box claims: A Boon to the Sick Days of Amusement Entirely New and Novel A 'Service' Favourite 186 tiles...
From the designer: The firsts are born in bursts, and the best of the rest are obsessed." This is how I defined that illusive state, the 'open' or 'perfect' game, in 1976. Since perfection is all but impossible to achieve, I decided to design all-inclusive or 'peri-' games, Jigsol' is the first of the series. Designed to play with more versatility and...
Jin Li (锦鲤) is the Chinese word for Koi. Koi are friendly fish. They love getting close to other koi, rubbing up against each other, gathering in small groups. In Jin Li the players each control two koi in a pond. They swim their fish through the placid water, maneuvering around or jumping over stones that are dropped into the pond, and score points by...
Designed for the 2010 Christmas Print and Play Game Design Contest, Jingle Jangle is a domino-like placement game which scores points for arranging tiles into the appropriate patterns. Jingle Jangle uses a special set of 30 tiles with two bells on them called jangles. The game can be played by two, three or four players and the size of the hand varies with...
Jintol is an abstract 2-player game and is played in 2 rounds. Each player starts the first round with an identical set of tiles ( 1 player black - 1 player white) and 3 action cards ( picked from a set of 8). In turn each player places one of these 2x2 tiles on a 5x5 grid and/or plays an action card (depending on the type of card). When playing a tile, it...
A simple children´s game that has 2 phases. In the first, you lay cards from your hand, building a road in the kingdom of Ooo using a mechanic that is similiar to dominoes. In the second phase, the game has a simple roll and move mechanic and landing on spaces that tell you to move forward or backward some spaces, makes you or your opponent lose your turn...
Join 5 Turn is an abstract strategy game for people ages 4 and up. It is basically a new twist on an old game. The old game being Connect Four - or in this case, five. each player has 13 tiles either red or blue and they try to get four or five in a row depending on the variation being played (there are three included with the game) the twist is that the...
A Joker was sent to prison because he called the queen fat. He's had a week to think about it, and he's decided to try to break out. The game uses the Aces and Faces to create the board. Aces represent traps, while Kings, Queens, and Jacks represent guards. The goal of the game is to find the Ace of Spades, a powerful and intricate trap like none other....
An additional set of special cards for Jokkmokk: The Winter Market. This set of cards can be used in combination with the existing sets in the game. Straw Goat card rules: When claimed, take turns doing the following actions, starting with you and proceeding clockwise: Move one of your cards from in front of you to the middle of the table. The card must be...
Morning in an unfamiliar room. Hotel. Headache. Buzzing phone. Roaring chief editor: "Where is the promised article? Where are you messing about?" Tangled language. Your gibbering voice can't stop this onslaught. "I don't care about your excuses! Get up and do something! I want to have a damn good story on the table right away. Otherwise you're fired!"...
[From the publisher's web site] The JSCH (pronounced “Ish”) from faraway Planet Erra observe the struggle between Good and Evil Forces on Planet Earth. Which will gain influence over the Minds and Souls of Humans? JSCHWJSCH/JSCHRJSCH mean Kings and Queens of Wisdom in the Plejaran language. The players help each other by clever laying of tiles to make Maps...