With It Or On It is the first wargame in the Shields & Swords Ancients series. Like its Medieval era cousin Shields & Swords, this series takes a broad brush approach to simulating battles, this time of the Ancient period, with an emphasis on speed and playability. While the basic philosophy and the core system of using Command Markers to activate Wings...
Witt incorporates the single piece movement and the jump and capture mechanism of checkers along with allowing players to jump their own pieces as in chinese checkers. There are multiple objectives that individually could be an agreed upon as a single win condition or in various combinations where all are needed to win. The possible winning objectives are:...
Welcome to the Wizard's Garden. In this part of the garden is the Alesalitis plant, a rare and strange little plant that has a tendency to change its color, and flowers every time another Alesalitis is planted next to it. From this plant you can harvest two types of needed flowers: Dovetail, which is a white flower, and Ravenclaw, which is black. Wizard's...
In Wizwords! one or more players gradually build up a crossword grid as the game progresses. (The box says "1+" but six seems like a reasonable maximum number of players.) On a turn a player draws a letter card and adds a word containing that letter to the grid, connected it to existing words as in Scrabble. The grid starts with no black squares; after the...
The wolf and 17 sheep are placed on the spaces indicated on the game board and the game can begin with 1 player taking on the role of the wolf and the other that of the sheep. The wolf starts in the middle of the board whereas the 17 sheep occupy two neighboring sections. The wolf begins moving from point to point, forward or backward in any direction. His...
In WolfWalkers: My Story, two players compete to create a grid using cards from a shared deck, with those cards bearing illustrations from the Wolfwalkers movie. Each turn, you take one of the six available double-sided cards and place it in your grid, taking either one of the two Objective cards that indicate how you can score points or one of the four...
A collection of old fairy tales has been torn apart. Pages from different stories are all mixed together and strewn about. Can you find the connections between the scattered characters to put their stories back together? Reunite the characters in clever ways to win the game! Wonder Tales is a quick tile-laying set-collection micro-game for two players....
User summary Word Chess (ワードチェス) (Wa-do Chesu) is a brain game that can be described as the combination between a word puzzle and Chess. To move, you say a word that begins with the same letter as the letter written on the piece. You can then move your piece the same amount of spaces as there are letters in the word you chose. If you are able to land your...
Each player takes five face-down letter tablets after shuffling. Divide black tablets equally between all the players. Players then take turns placing black tablets on the board, leaving at least one square (including diagonally) between tablets. Players then take turns making words on the board using the letter tablets, ensuring that the word fits between...
From the box: This game combines features of both chess and word games. The objective is to move markers to different squares that contain letters, in order to connect letters, in order to form words - thereby scoring points. The markers move like chessmen, though their moves are simpler than chess. The formation of words is simpler than in other board...