Rival gardeners compete to see who can grow the best flowers for the annual flower show. Will your sunflowers be spectacular or simply second-rate? Will your marigolds be magnificent or merely mediocre? Whoever grows the tallest and most attractive flowers will be awarded Best in Show! Players play cards to their flower beds to increase the height of their...
Bug, winner of the 2017 best combinatorial game award, is a 2 player combinatorial game where you build shapes on a hexagonal board, which then eat each other. The shapes that survive grow into different, larger shapes until one player runs out of space to grow (and thus wins). The game is played with white and black stones on any hexagonal tiling. The...
Bug Trails is a 6-legged color matching domino game. Place your Bug Tiles by matching the bug’s colored legs. The first person to run out of bugs wins! Match two or even three legs by connecting bugs with legs of the same color and advance further in the game. Bug Trails teaches simple strategies and visual matching to younger players and is fun for the...
Players program a simple Turing Machine, also known as a State Machine. One cube, called the pointer is positioned opposite a line of 7 other cubes, called the tape. For each state that the pointer/tape is in, a player writes an instruction changing the state, and moving the pointer. Points are scored for the number of times the pointer moves, unless the...
You’re one of the Master Builders of a brand new community called “Puzzle Town”. You and your opponents take turns playing Tiles that form complete town blocks, attempting to score the most “profit “ points (while avoiding “losses” for construction stoppage and zoning violations). When no more Tiles can be played, the scores are tallied. If you’ve made the...
Builder Bees is a bee hive building hex polyomino tile laying game for 2 players, ages 10+, playing time around 30 min. In Builder Bees, the players are bee hive builders and they have been tasked by the Queen Bee to build a new bee hive. The player who manages to build a better bee hive by building honeycomb tiles and grouping the same type of honey...
In Building Sword as Soon as Possible, a.k.a. ナルハヤのつるぎ, players each have their own set of six cards that depict portions of elaborate swords. Each round, reveal one request card from the deck to show the one or two swords that need to be created. Players then race to arrange their cards the proper way — flipping and overlapping them as needed — to...
Penny Arcade's Mechanically-Inclined Niece enters the bullet hell! With her workshop, Anne-Claire Forthwith fuses two patterns together to create the right tool for every situation! As a Boss, Anne-Claire summons the Kewpitrix Engine, a giant doll automaton that forces Heroines to play 2 patterns at the same time or lose instantly! Anne-Claire is a...
This is a simple Bingo-like game. There is a board with a 5 x 4 grid. Each of the spaces contains a picture of a particular grocery item as well as a background color (one of 5). There are also 20 cards which match the 20 spaces of the board. These cards are divided among the players. The object of the game is to be the first player who places a card on...