The ever-changing gameboard for Zark City is made up of playing cards and is created during the game by the players. Icehouse pyramids are used to indicate who's in control of which cards. The goal is to completely control a connected trio of three cards which are either Three-of-a-Kind or which form a Suited Trio (a three-card Straight Flush). Zark City...
Zatre is short for Zahlen & Treppen, numbers and steps. The publisher was obliged to replace the phrase "scrabbling with numbers" for "dominoes for the 21st century" on the box, but really it is just Scrabble with numbers. And very good for it, it is too. There are 121 tiles with 1-6 dots like a standard die or domino (20 of each number plus an extra 1)....
From Spiel 2011, a sample version of Zatre, packaged with Blockers! 2 in 1 Schnupperspiel. This version uses 25 cardboard tokens (five 1-pip, and four each of 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6) versus the 121 tokens of the regular version. Zatre is short for Zahlen & Treppen, numbers and steps. Players alternately draw and place tiles on the board extending the pattern...
Zaxo is a Game of tile laying to complete a line of at least 5 tiles. This is therefore just like Tantrix, but each player chooses his color secretly and can change it while playing! The layout of the tiles is different to Tantrix (only straight lines, no wiggly curves here) but there are also 4 colors (black, red, blue, green) just like Tantrix (yellow...
The game shows the expansion of Sulejówek in the first half of the 20th century. Players place tiles representing roads and buildings on the table, creating three historical layers. Correct placement of a tile on the lowest layer is awarded with victory points, while on the second layer it allows the player to make an additional move. The highest-scored...
Zbuduj swój Kaczogród (English: Build Your Own Duckburg) is a collectible mini card game for children added to a few subsequent issues of "Kaczor Donald" magazine (English: Donald Duck). Players build the town of Kaczogród (English: Duckburg), where the action of the Donald Duck comic books takes place. Every turn they draw up to 5 cards in hand and either...
Zebrazucht. Northern Germany The year is 2119. Global warming has pushed northern Europe’s yearly average temperature to 27.7 C. The sale and breeding of exotic animals is one of the fastest growing businesses in the world. Breeding in captivity has become a necessity for the survival of most of the species existing 30 degrees longitude north and south of...
2-4 players try to build enclosures for lions and zebras with fence tiles. The tile edges have different color and just similar color can be placed next to each other. As soon as a player builds an enclosure he places one of his animals within it. The first one to place all his animals wins the game. This is an easy strategy game for children with...
Players take turns placing a number tile on a grid (11 x 11). When a row or column is formed which sums up to ten, the player who placed the last tile gets as many points as the number of tiles involved. Some "double" or "triple" squares exist which increase the players' points. The player with most points after 100 tiles is the winner. There are : 40x...
The game was one of the titles in the final round of the "Hippodice Spieleautorenwettbewerb 2010". The players try to get the most profitable contracts in this competition. But which player is playing for which guild? This secret is only revealed at the end of the game! During each turn, the player rolls a d6 and places a matching numbered tile on a...