UR FERTILE CRESENT circa 2,100 BCE One block at a time, the Sumerians built wide, flat pyramids, called Ziggurats, in their city of Ur. Be the first to move your block on top of two of any players’ blocks which are stacked on a foundation block. Stop your opponent’s blocks from moving by stacking on top of them. But watch out! Everyone loses when someone...
This game is played on a 7x7 square board.The board shows several "win-fields", each depicting two symbols (male and female). The players take turns drawing a tile from his own stack of tiles. They then place the tile on the board. The tile shows one of three symbols: male, female and mountain. The tile must be played next to a win-field, in such a way...
From the TLI Games website: "Let the stories begin…..Zing! gives you a delicious set of words (with three difficulty levels). With those and a few of your own, you develop a sentence. You’ll score points for every Zing! word you use. Players take turns adding to your sentence until you have a story! Can’t write? You’ll be surprised… Zing! brings you in and...
Zingamino is dominoes with a twist. It is played on a board with four interconnecting circles. The game uses domino-like tiles with colored dots in four colors - orange, green, purple and yellow - and 16 tiles in each group that must be played in the corresponding colored circles. The connecting colored circles can be bridged with doubles tiles or "wild"...
Numbered counters valued 1 - 4 are placed upside down on the gameboard. From the middle of the board a pawn is moved according to the number of squares mentioned on the start counter. An even number makes the pawn land on on counter, an uneven number lets the pawn get next to a counter. The start counter can be removed from the board and is the first gain...
Be an animal at the zoo! 4 Baby-elephants, -tigers, -bears and baby parrots are lost in the huge zoo and far from home. If you are the first to bring these babies home, then you will win the game! Wind your way through the zoo maze. Take short cuts on boats, bridges, and trolleys-whenever you can! The game board consists of separate pieces that can be put...
This is a tile based game where players are in the role of Knights who venture into the mysterious castle of Zlatohrad in search of treasure. Each player has a cart with four knights. By gradually flipping over the tiles that have been placed in a 9x9 grid, players discover the secrets of the castle and try to find as much treasure as they can, so long as...
Zobrist cubes are similar to the classic "Soma Cube" puzzle, except that there are many more 3d shapes having sizes up to 5 small cubes. There are enough pieces in the set to simultaneously construct 5 3×3×3 cubes. The set comes with a code book containing thousands of codes, each of which specifies a set of pieces from which a 3×3×3 cube can be...
This game features 96 "domino" tiles, consisting of different pairings of the 12 zodiac symbols. Each symbol appears red and black. Twelve of the tiles have stars at one end and are "wild". 2 to 4 players play, each using a rack of 6 tiles. Tiles can be placed anywhere in the layout provided that they match the same symbol in opposite color of at least one...
ZOKI is a unique set of 34 cards/tiles that can be used to play dozens of different games in the Zoki system. Most of these games are played by matching the four sides of the cards to adjacent cards, either to form a square or in domino-style fashion. These games can be played either solitaire or against opponents. Other games use the cards as part of...
Description from the designer: Zombie Apocalypse – The Dice Game is a solitaire dice placement game where you control [4] elite Navy SEALs trying to get home by searching for [5] SATCOM electronic communication pieces, through sixteen possible locations containing a variety of hostile combatants: zombies “slow, fast, mutant and radiated”, plus dangerous...