The pieces are set up as in checkers, the difference being that each player's pieces are numbered and placed on the corresponding numbered squares on the board. The lowest-numbered pieces are placed in the front row and represent the pawns in chess: they draw out the opponent's pieces, especially those with higher numbers, clear the board by capturing...
2 players ages 8+ An 8x8 board. 4 bee meeples ('beeples') in 2 colors. 60 flower tokens in various colors. Setup The board starts out empty. Players in turn place their 2 beeples onto any empty squares of the board. And each player starts the game with a pool of 30 flower tokens. Play Players take turns. Per turn take into your hand from 1 to 4 flower...
Description from box Bermuda Triangle, the legendary area in the Atlantic Ocean where dozens of ships and planes have disappeared without explanation, is the setting of this exciting game of suspense. The sinister mystery cloud hovers, weaves and sweeps, swallowing some ships as it passes. Can you make it 'home' with your cargo, or will your fleet become...
A placement game with a goal of highest score. Played on a checker board, or on a drawn square grid. Can easily be adapted to other grids. To Play, first decide which scoring method to use. (see below) Then players alternate, optionally either placing one of their pieces onto an empty light square on the checker board, or passing. The game ends when both...
Beyond The Edges of The Maps is a two-player territory exploration game inspired by the fictional world of The Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson. Players sail their ships and explore land in order to surround and discover more territory than their opponent. Each turn, a player moves their ship to discover more land and also adds more land pieces to...
Beyond Tic Tac Ten is played on a 9x9 grid divided into nine 3x3 grids, as is the fake "Tic Tac Ten" game that inspired it. (This appeared in one of the fake ads in an earlier issue of GAMES.) Players take turns marking an empty space. After the first move, each move must be made in the 3x3 corresponding to the position of the previous move in its 3x3...
The players start at the corners of the game board and try to reach the center space. Movement is determined by a roulette wheel. If the result is a number, the player moves the corresponding number of spaces. On the result of a "Jeannie" the player draws a card and a certain player is blinked to another section of the game board. If another player...
Bible Match It Link It is played with 57 unique octagonal tiles. Each tile has eight images, one on each edge of the octagon. On any 2 Bible Match It Link It tiles, there is always 1 (and only 1) matching image. The 4 exciting ways to play Bible Match It Link It are all super easy learn: Match It like “Snap!” then Link It like “Dominoes”. Game 1: Lightning...
People come to camp, and the Patagonian species that inhabit the place want to hide! In this game we must play and pass the cards from our hand to the other players, forming a personal grid on the table. In turn, each player will give a location where each player must place their next card on the grid, which can be above, below, left or right of another...
The Big Push covers the gigantic battle of the Somme in summer-fall of 1916. Rivaling Verdun in ferocity, scale and casualties, Somme was Britain's first real chance to open up the Western Front in World War I. French and British allies, wanting to take initiative away from Germany at Verdun, launched a large joint offensive at the Somme, where their...