From the box: "Intersect brings the skill and fun of crosswords to a fast paced action filled card game. Intersect can be played three different ways - Intersect - Intersect Solitaire - Intersect Rummy. The deck consists of 90 playing cards: 69 one-letter cards, 10 each two and three-letter cards and 1 four-letter card. The object is to be the player to...
Intricatus (from the Latin word meaning "entangled") is a captivating solo abstract puzzle. Strategically swap and organize discs in the most efficient way before the clock runs out. Goal of the game: Successfully organize all the discs into the correct order before time runs out. The rulebook can to be printed in order to play, there is 1 main board to...
Unusual party game from the mid-trivia binge. Players are to collect five experience tokens and one skill chip from each of the seven intuitive areas. The game includes hundreds of props for the different intuitive skills, which are as follows: Pattern Perception: name a word which is printed in a very blurred fashion. Psycho-Osmosis: Determine the meaning...
IQ-5 is a clever 5-in-line game where players sit on either side of a vertical grid with holes for pegs. Each player has 10 pegs each in three-color combinations: red/yellow, red/blue, and blue/yellow. Each turn, a player places a peg into one of the grid holes so that one color shows on his side and the other color on his opponent's side. The first player...
Irensei is a mixture of Go and Gomoku played on a Go Board (19x19). Players win the game by getting seven stones in a row of their color. In addition, they may capture and eliminate enemy stones in the same way that is done in Go. The winning condition is to have seven in a row, vertically, diagonally, or horizontally, if and only if all these stones are...
Iris is a two player abstract strategy game that is played on a "hexhex" board (a hexagonal shaped board made with hexagonal cells). An Iris board has rainbow colored perimeter cells and gray interior cells. Boards of sizes 5-8 cells per side are recommended. (Size 5 is recommended for beginners.) Player 1 plays with black stones and Player 2 plays with...
User summary: いろかたおりがみ (Irokata Origami) is a puzzle game that uses origami (Japanese folding paper). You are given a sheet of four-colored grid paper, and from a deck of cards you draw a pattern card. This depicts a certain shape with color pattern and a number of folds allowed. You pass the test if you have made that shape and color pattern by folding...
Ironclad is a commissioned game from Frank Lantz for the game design textbook "Rules of Play", by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman. Ironclad is played on a 6-by-8 checkerboard, using checkers on the spaces and go stones on the intersections. The checkers represent battling armored robots, and the stones represent arguments in a philosophical disagreement...
(now available as Isla Tetra 2 - please check BGG page) The first game from Will Sargent's Solway Games uses a colourful new puzzle system to create essential inventory items which can be used to explore the mysterious island, ISLA TETRA. The same colourful grids are built to earn Exploration, Health and Fishing actions, making for a puzzling castaway...
Following in the sandy footprints of Isla Tetra comes its card-driven 2-player cousin, Isla Tetra 2. It’s been three days since that terrible event: The violent turbulence; the acrid smell of smoke; the sudden descent and then the panicked screams of other passengers. You’re in shock, hungry and disoriented. The shore is littered with debris from the...
In Island Fortress, you play a master builder chosen by Governor Cortland Hansen to help construct the mighty Fort Aldenford using the penal colony on Alcott Island. Your goal is to become the most distinguished architect with the help of your Taskmaster, Workers, and the Governor himself! In the game, all players use identical decks of five Role Cards to...