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...
BIKIDO is an abstract strategy game with complete information. Subtle, elegant and challenging, it tests the players’ planning and anticipation skills. They must work their way through the opponent’s defense, cross the river by taking over the banks, and use the opponent’s pieces to climb up and reach the opposite bird’s nest to cover it. The magnetic box...
In the geometrical racing game Billabong — currently available on the market as Billabong Race — players maneuver teams of kangaroos by jumping around a "billabong", that is, "a dead-end channel extending from the stream of a river", with this term being used in Australia. The board is filled with checkerboard-style squares around the billabong in the...
Bimbo the monkey starts on a black space on one narrow side of the game board. The two keepers start on two black spaces on the opposite side. The monkey moves diagonally forward or backward. The Keepers may only move diagonally forward. To win the game, the monkey has to pass the keepers to escape. The keepers win, if they enclose the monkey, so it can't...