To begin two rings are placed together on the table, the sides which connect the hexagonals matching. The remaining rings are divided among the players. In turn, players add on 1 ring at a time, trying to connect each ring with 2 sides if possible. Each time a player lays down a ring with 2 sides connecting he scores 1 point; 5 points if if 3 sides connect...
Sixteen Tons is a game for four players designed for a gallery setting, created by architect Nathalie Pozzi and game designer Eric Zimmerman. It also exist in a tabletop version aimed at dinner parties. On its surface, Sixteen Tons looks like a large-scale boardgame, in which players move very heavy pieces around a four-by-four grid, trying to maneuver...
"Three dimensions for a classic strategy game". The game is a platform on which players can put piles of square stones. The sensors on the platform will help the computer to take track of the moves. Two different games are included in this early electronic device. In the first (like 3d tic-tac-toe), players have to put 4 stones in a row; the computer will...
You've just stumbled onto a small secret pond, hidden right in your own neighborhood. Three odd little creatures and their frog-friends are playing, and whatever their game is it's good! There's a duck made of paper, a bug trapped in a rock, and a toad spitting sparks from its tongue. They're all squealing and jumping, leap-frogging and bumping, and racing...
Merrills-meets-memory game where players try to eliminate stones of the opponent by getting three of their own pieces in a row. All pieces, though, are hidden, and all of them have the same figure on their backs: initially the orientation shows which figure is which but after a couple of turns players will have moved, swapped and twisted the pieces often...
Skedoodle was published in Sid Sackson's A Gamut of Games. It is a mathematical game where a master number is chosen among the following: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 and, starting with a number from 1 to 30, players try to obtain the master number by the following operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication or division of the two digits of the chosen...
Skeem is a collection/building game where you try to build three columns of cards that fulfill a target card. On your turn you draw a card from each of the three decks: Target, Build, and Action. Targets let you change your target, Build cards let you build columns, and Actions let you move things around...either to help yourself, hurt your opponents, or...
This game could be described as Battleship with words. The board is a bi-fold, with a ribbon connecting the two sides to provide support for tenting on a table. Each side of the board has two areas - the lower portion contains a thin ledge on which to place the letter tiles and a coordinate system. The upper portion has the coordinates as well as holes...
Description from the publisher: Outmaneuver your opponents in this full-tilt action brain-builder! Arrange your tiles in Skiwampus so that the corners connect to form an array of patterns, whether most colors, all numbers, three of a kind, or more. But work quickly because everyone plays at the same time! It's a geometric jam that requires sharp eyes...
Sedlec Ossuary, 16th Century AD. The Black Plague and Hussite Wars have overcrowded the graveyard. Help the Bone Collector, a half-blind monk, by exhuming graves and arranging the skulls inside the crypt. You are novice monks, competing to create the best arrangement of skulls. Dig up graves from the graveyard to reveal cards, take cards into your hand to...
Sedlec Ossuary, 16th Century AD. The Black Plague and Hussite Wars have overcrowded the graveyard. Help the Bone Collector, a half-blind monk, by exhuming graves and arranging the skulls inside the crypt. You are novice monks, competing to create the best arrangement of skulls. Dig up graves from the graveyard to reveal cards, take cards into your hand to...