From the designer's website: Xochintlan means 'garden' in Nahuatl, former language of the Aztecs. If this game existed 600 years ago I bet you it would have been a real hit on the Mexican High Plateau. In the deep Mexican Country The Human live surrounded by animals. The Monkeys (Ozomatli), the Lizards (Cuetzpallin) and the Birds (Quetzalli) try to settle...
Xoliba is a fast-paced, surprising and totally new abstract strategy game. It has no standard starting position. Instead, before each game a new starting position is created by placing game pieces on the board at random. As there are billions of possible starting positions, each game is different from the next. Because the starting position is randomized...
The game is a variation of TicTacToe. Players play six games and score points. There are 16 ceramic tiles one inch square. 4 black with “X”, 4 black with “XO”, 4 white with “X” and 4 white with “XO”. There are no tiles with just “O”. Players score points by making a line of three tiles of same color (25 pts), 3 Xs or 3 XOs in a line of two colors (50 pts)...
To get the highest accumulative score at the end of 3 rounds of play by strategically dropping your tiles in your rack so that they stack up into rows that score horizontally or diagonally but not vertically. On your turn you roll the 4 dice which all have symbols on them. The symbols are cherries, oranges, bells, and dollar signs. If you roll two or more...
In Yakimess, we're a group of friends who went out to dinner at our favorite Japanese restaurant, only to discover they only have one plate of Yakimeshi (mexican/japanese fried rice dish) for everyone. So, we'll have to fight over the ingredients using chopsticks to be the player who can eat the most of this delicious dish. This is a game of dexterity...
Yam Master combines the dice-combination game play of Yahtzee and other such designs with a competition for prime spots on the game board in order to create rows of tokens. On a turn, a player rolls the five dice, setting aside any he wishes, then rolls up to two more times with dice set aside in the first round being available for reroll on the third...
Yards is a two-player football-themed strategy board game. The game begins where the most exciting football games end: it is sudden-death overtime, and the first team to score a touchdown or field goal wins. The game is played in drives in which players alternate driving the ball towards opposite ends of the field. Players are dealt cards with simple...
Yavalade is a Yavalath derivative for 3 players that can be played with the same components (hexhex board of size 5 and counters in 3 colours). It is inspired by Gute Nachbarn (which also inspired Splade for Series: Shibumi). RULES SETUP Each player has an allocated colour (White, Black, Red). The playing order is White-Black-Red. White player takes a red...
Yavalanchor is a Yavalath derivative for 2 players that can be played with the same set of components (hexhex board of size 5 and counters in 3 colours). RULES SETUP Each player has an allocated colour (White and Black). Red counters are neutral and will act as 'anchors'. HOW TO PLAY Starting with White players take turns placing either: a) A red counter...
Yavalath is an abstract strategy game for two players. Players strive to make a straight line of 4 pieces of their colour, but lose if they make a line of 3 before doing so. The board (a hexagon 5 spaces on a side) is initially empty. Players take turns placing a piece of their colour on an empty cell. Yavalath was invented / discovered by a...
Rules for Yavalax Goal: Simultaneously create two or more rows of exactly four stones of your color. Components: Square grid board at least 13x13 in size, with a sufficient number of white/black stones to fill the board. Note: n-in-a-row counts both orthogonally and diagonally. Play: White starts by placing a white stone at an empty cell. Players then take...