いたずらこびととしましまの島 (Itazura kobito to shimashima no shima) is the Japanese title of this game, meaning Naughty Gnomes on Shimashima Island. しましま is Shimashima, meaning Striped, 島 is Shima (sounded like しま) meaning Island. But the publisher has given it a simpler English title 'Gnomes in Burano'. The theme of the game is the rows of coloured houses that need...
By all appearances, Go is just two players taking turns laying stones on a 19×19 (or smaller) grid of intersections. But once its basic rules are understood,Go shows its staggering depth. One can see why many people say it's one of the most elegant brain-burning abstract games in history. Players place one stone at a time on the board at an empty...
"Go-Moku" (Japanese - also spelled "Gomoku") or "wuziqi" (Chinese) is a very old game played with a Go set. The game can also be played on a sheet of graph paper using X's and O's. It is similar in idea to tic-tac-toe, but far greater in scale and complexity. The name means "five points." It is debated whether this game originated in China or Japan, with...
A fast paced game of acquiring matching component cards to make a full knight or dragon. Match up all four cards to make a Knight or Dragon to add to your army. Arm one of your knights or dragons with their magic weapon and slay your opponent's forces. Game includes 126 playing cards and rules. The cards are labeled in English, German, French, and Spanish...
Get together with your friends and have a Soccer match! To honor the Soccer Championship in Africa 2010 the czech author Jirka Mikoláš releases a Soccer card game, that is both easy to learn, quick to play and fun to live through! You can have a friendly match, or get more involved and play through a small championship or a series of matches! Two starter...
In this game the players try to build food chains ranging from algae and muck up to raccoons. According to the instructions, all of the possible combinations actually exist in nature. The cards for this game each have an animal, a description of what that animal eats(smaller animals or algae) and a number from 1-5. There are also cards for algae and muck...
This game is currently seeking publishers. Goblin Factory is a cooperative tile-laying puzzle game for 1-6 players that can be played in less than ten minutes. Players take on the role of industrious goblins. A Challenge card drawn from the Challenge card deck determines what sort of machine the players must build. Players take turns drawing two tiles from...
The Swindler's Chest includes all gameplay content from Emerald Skulls and Goblin Vaults. The chest also includes a double-sided playmat (one side for each game) and 3 plastic trays for easy game setup and storage. Additionally, the larger box supports sleeved cards for both games! This Swindler's Chest includes the following items (all sold separately):...
Five Goblin Pirates, marooned on a deserted island by treacherous crewmates, cobble together a raft and set off towards home through the Goblund Gauntlet, a dangerous pass full of sharp rocks, shipwrecks and merciless fellow pirates. Surviving the trip would be great. Collecting a big pile of loot would be better. Goblins, Guns and Grog is a solitaire...
Place 3 in a row of the same color or shape and your opponent scores a point in this maniacal memory game. It's enough to make your mind spin as you try to remember the pattern on the board before it's spun around and another patterned plug is added into play. Was black on the right and whit on the left? and square below and circle above? Avoid putting 3...