A tenacious Farmer against a herd of Pigs greedy for pumpkins. Who will win? Bite the pumpkin! is an asymmetrical abstract game for two (or three) players. Each player moves in a different way: while the Farmer just plants a new pumpkin every turn, the Herd of Pigs eats pumpkins and rushes in a chosen direction, until an obstacle is found. Each player has...
Bitskrieg is the game of tiny tank battles. Each player gets a platoon of five tanks and maneuvers on an 8×8 grid to destroy their opponent’s tanks. Nobody knows why they have it in for each other. Are they fighting over a simple misunderstanding? The last slice of pizza? Arctic water rights? What’s important is that they will stop at nothing to destroy...
The board consists of a starting zone for the figures (numbered 1-6), a space that is a hospital (where a piece goes when it is attacked and loses) spaces where a piece is protected, and spaces where an attack may be made to an adjacent space (determined by the direction of the arrow). Players roll to see who goes first. That player then selects a figure...
Get ready to lift the anchor and sharpen the saber. The battle for the Hegemony of the seven seas is about to begin. Impersonate one of the four power-hungry captains and lead your ship to the archipelago chosen for the challenge. Create your winning strategy and hit your opponents with cannon shots to conquer the coveted Black Bones title. Everything is...
A blackbox is a device, system, or object which can be viewed in terms of its inputs and outputs, or transfer characteristics, without any knowledge of its internal workings. Its implementation is "opaque" – or black. This kind of system may exchange matter with its environment. The term originates from military signal engineering and originally designated...
Blade & Bow is a moderately complex game depicting combat between ancient armies with the goal of showing the evolution of infantry combat from the adoption of the Greek hoplite formation through the Roman maniple and cohort. Two players take control of historical armies to see how well they might fare as compared to their historical counterparts. In what...
From the Invisible City Productions website: Looking for someone to shove? Strategize in Blam! with two to four elbow-room seekers. Object: To push high-scoring pieces off the board and add them to your treasure chest. You Need: A chessboard. One stash of Icehouse Pieces for each player. No stash may have the same color as another stash. On your turn...
This game is somewhat similar to Milton Bradley's Pathfinder; it also has each player create a maze and then try to solve the opponent's maze by moving through it and being told when walls are encountered. However, in Blind Alley the wall pieces come in a variety of shapes, each of which is a different color. When your piece hits a wall you are told what...
Twenty blocks move in a board of forty houses in order to block the movement of the other twenty of different color. Initially each house is filled by one block; these are aggregated forming larger pieces that when moved to empty houses are divided into two smaller ones. The same movement rules result in different paths when applied to the various sizes of...