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...
Black Narrows is played on a rectangular grid of size 2x2 or larger [each dimension is greater than or equal to 2], initially empty. Two players take turns placing black stones onto unoccupied points on the board, one stone per turn. After your placement, there must be an orthogonally interconnected path of unoccupied points, of length at least 1...
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...
Blackstone is a two-player game played on a square board of any even size, of side length 6 or longer. The perimeter cells are initially populated with red and blue stones. Mark Steere designed Blackstone in March 2024. Alek Erickson made a material contribution to the design of Blackstone. PlayThe two players, Red and Blue, take turns making a...
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...
The forest is teeming with creatures scurrying and crawling everywhere! There’s plenty to discover not only up in the trees, but also beneath the fallen leaves! Use your magnifier strategically and find as many matching forest creatures as you can under the leaves. You might even come across some fruits or mushrooms. Only with the right strategy you will...
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...
Blobcut is a drawless connection game for two players: Black and White. It is played on the intersections (points) of an initially empty, odd-sized square grid (board). The top and bottom edges of the board are colored black; the left and right edges are colored white. Some definitions: A crosscut is a 2×2 area with two diagonally adjacent black stones and...
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...