Sea Chess is a board game, like Chess, or Checkers. Chess, however, is a game that interprets Medieval land warfare while Sea Chess interprets a modern Naval Battle. Every Sea Chess game piece represents a warship. Both players get 24 game pieces representing 3 battleships, 4 cruisers, 8 destroyers and 9 escorts. Each type of "ship" moves freely about the...
"Second Empire" is a Sci-Fi 4x multi-player board-wargame published more than a decade before the term "4x" was even coined by Alan Emrich in his "Computer Gaming World" September 1993 preview of Master of Orion. Loosely based on any of a number of Science Fiction stories (such as the Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov) where a Galactic Empire reached its...
Simultaneous plotted movement plus instantaneous travel to any system in the galaxy makes this a very wide-open game. Clean, simple rules for two players only. Solitaire suitability is zilch, and there are only counter sets for two players. Unfortunately poor production quality, especially the counters, detracts from the game. Counters are generic...
From the publisher: The Game of Great Questions! Kids love to ask questions, and Secret Square encourages great questions. One player secretly hides a chip under a square, then the other players ask questions to remove squares . . . until the only square left is the secret square. Simple enough for a 4 year-old, challenging enough for parents and older...
In Seiðruna, two players compete for the favor of fickle spirits by using elemental runes to craft precise ritual patterns. On a turn, a player drafts a card from the central market, adding the card and its associated token to the corresponding position on their board. Over multiple turns, the player will draft cards based on various traits to create...
Sendas is a two player, abstract strategy board game. The action takes place in a 9x9 grid board where players control 6 pieces each (differentiated by light and dark colors) starting from mirrored positions on opposite sides. Players take turns moving and/or rotating one of their pieces in an attempt to reach the opposite side of the board and be the...
Shuffie the colour card deck and piace 16 on the table forming a 4 x 4 square. The remaining cards are placed face down in piles. Three target cards are drawn and placed face up in plain sight. The youngest player begins by drawing a colour card from one of the piles and inserting it in a row or column of the 4x4 square, shifting the entire row or column....
Serengeti is a tactical game of 8 zebras vs giraffes. Both players start with their 8 pieces around the edge of the board, and each turn move one animal one or two steps. An opponent’s piece is captured by enclosing it with two of your own pieces (“Custodian Capture”). One wins by having all animals neighboring a central oasis field; or by capturing all...
This game is played on a Go-like board initially empty. Larger boards imply more strategic matches. Setup. One player drops two black stones and one white stone. The second player decides to swap (and becomes Black) or continues as White. At each turn, each player must do the following sequence: • First, drop a friendly stone on an empty cell adjacent to...
A fairly simple abstract strategy game for two with a Nordic feel, which combines elements of hnefatafl and chess. Stated to be a traditional folk game with rules handed down in the family, when marketed online, but it appears not to have been previously recorded. Played on a square wooden board, divided into 7×7 undifferentiated squares (the game can also...