Crystals is played on a square grid - 21x21 is a suggested size. Players take turns marking squares with their symbol (e.g. X and O). These are called "atoms." When a player can form a "crystal" they outline it, shade it, and score as many points as there are squares in it. A crystal is any shape that has at least four atoms of one player in it, none of...
You are a department head at Area 51, assigned to The Cube reconstruction project. Manipulate, move, tessellate, and plan as you work to rebuild the alien craft with your fellow department heads. You’re all working together to reactivate the ship, but only one of you can be the ship’s captain and interface with the companion AI! Which department will gain...
Before chess, there were the ancient Tafl games of the Nordic & Celtic people. Rooted in the same idea of military strategy, but with a less complicated rule set. Due to the less than stellar documentation of these games, there's a number of ways to setup the board, and approach your strategy, but the basics are always the same. Two teams, a king and his...
In this game, you will play the role of a scheming hacker, hired by a space agency, with the intention of using it for your own benefit. Your mission is simple: operate to discover valuable and strange mineral deposits on the arid alien landscape. But be careful! While looking for treasures, you could find remainder of old missions from your own space...
This independently published game was sold in conjunction with the exhibition of King Tut's treasures that toured the United States in the late 1970's. Packaged in a cardboard poster tube, the game consists of a laminated mapsheet, six plastic pawns, a set of 27 cards, and a standard six-sided die. The object of this roll-and-move game is to be the first...
Custer's Last Stand is a Tactical level Free mini-wargame. American West: Indians vs Soldiers. Each figure represents a group of cavalry soldiers or Indian braves. Victory: Destroy your enemies completely.” The game is played on an 8x8 grid or chessboard. The middle four squares are each occupied by one Soldier. All edge spaces each contain one Indian. A...
A dice-based abstract strategy game featuring Custodial Capture as a main mechanic. Played on a 5x5 board, both players grab five dice in their own colour, roll them onto the table, and set them up along their edge. On their turn, a player then moves one die according to the number on top, trying to pinch the other players' dice. The game ends once one...
In Cut the Crop card game, you reap what you sow. You're a farmer working your fields to plant and harvest the most valuable crops. Plant three matching crops in a row and you can harvest them to score points. Be careful not to pass along crops your opponents need. Do you harvest easy points now or hold for higher points later? The player who manages their...
Primarily a learning game for IT specialists. Either you and your teammates secure your server as an admin or you try to take over the opponent's server in your hacker team, whereby the game is played like a tower defense with deck building. Computer scientists can learn key terms from the IT industry and acquire important soft skills such as team...
D-Day to Berlin is a fast playing game designed to recreate corps level battles of the Second World War, using miniatures to represent the combat battalions and counters to represent the supporting air and artillery assets. As a general commanding one or more Divisions, you must decide how to make the best use of your battalions, detachments, and supports...
This game from Swedish Lappland represents the struggle between landowners and the tribal Sami ( Lapps ). The Sami king, prince and warriors face off against the landowner, his son and tenant farmers. The game is won by a player when his opponent loses all their pieces, cannot make a legal move, or resigns; a draw can be arrived at by mutual agreement or...
ダグエイトチェス (DaG Eight Chess) is a two player abstract game from Japan, a mix of Chess and Stratego on a smaller 5*5 chequer board. Players have a small Chess army that move across the board, but as face-down tokens. The pieces are one each of King, Queen, Rook, Knight and Bishop, and three Pawns. These pieces all move and attack as in normal Chess. But if a...