In the golden green woodlands of the Alpine Slopes, stands Bethel Woods; an orphanage once explored by young, creative minds pushing the limits of space and time, gravity and light. But when an ominous force invades the world, Bethel Woods becomes a distant memory, lost inside the thickets of the forest. Now a group of young people, wearing the crest of...
A blackbox is a device, system, or object which can be viewed in terms of its inputs and outputs, or transfer characteristics, without any knowledge of its internal workings. Its implementation is "opaque" – or black. This kind of system may exchange matter with its environment. The term originates from military signal engineering and originally designated...
Bohnenspiel (Bean Game) is an old German game for two players that belongs to the Mancala family of pit and seeds games. As for the other games in the Mancala Family, the goal of the game is to accumulate more seeds in player's storehouse than the opponent. This is done by landing the last seed you are "sowing" in some pit bringing the total number of...
A Somali mancala game with Indian-style sowing. From Mancala World: "Bosh is a game played by the Darod clan in Somalia. It was first described by the ethnologue G. Marin in 1931. The game is similar to Indian mancala games such as Pachgarhwa and Sat-gol. Rules Bosh is played on a board of two rows, each consisting of five holes dug in the ground. There...
Some plans were made to be broken… Claw your way from low-level operative to master strategist in The Break System, a solo heist adventure. Scout, negotiate, infiltrate, and (hopefully) escape! Every decision shapes your experience. How will you manage your timeline? How will you spend your loot? Do you have what it takes? You won’t be without resources....
In the vast realm of Backyardia, the Bug Council convenes to discuss important things like picnics, how to ruin picnics and, of course, income tax reform. The different factions of bugs — ants, flies, bees, mosquitos and cockroaches — find themselves in an ever-shifting balance of power and only those who ally themselves with the most powerful will seize...
Hark! Backyardia once again beckons you, friend! Long Live Backyardia! is an expansion to the award-nominated mancala meets trick taker, Bug Council of Backyardia. The expansion includes the following four modules, each one offering a new quirk to spice up the base gameplay. The Peacekeeper: Rein in the chaos of Backyardia with the Peacekeeper, a new token...
“2-4 Player Mancala Variant using a square 36 pit board. Capture the Most stones by the end of the Game. The Game ends when there are only 6 or less stones remaining on the board. The board is composed of 36 Pits (spaces) laid out in a 6 by 6 Grid. Use glass beads or whatever (seeds, nuts, pebbles) for Pieces. Players share a common set of Stones. Each...
Campus Wahala is a Mancala based card game set in a Nigerian university. Cards either show books (with different values) or characters (each with a unique skill). On their turn, players draw 5 cards from a stack and, starting with their own "locker" (tableau), place one card in each of the next four lockers (clockwise). However, the character cards...