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...
"Dag en Nacht" is Dutch for "Day and Night." The board is an nxn squared board, where n is an odd number between 11 and 19. A 15x15 board is considered average. The board is laid out in a checkered pattern of black and white spaces. The white spaces are the most numerous, with the four corners all being white. The board starts off empty. The players are...
Dai Hasami Shogi is a variant of Hasami Shogi. It is played on a 9x9 grid, traditionally on a shogi board. The word dai mean large and the name is apt because this game uses twice as many pieces as Hasami Shogi, 18 per player placed initially on the two back rows nearest the player controlling those pieces. The two sides are called sente ["black"] and gote...
Dama is a classic two-player strategy board game that tests player’s tactical skills and foresight. Players take turns moving their pawns, aiming to capture their opponent’s pieces by jumping over them. The ultimate goal is strategically maneuvering your pieces to the opponent’s side of the board, crowning them and enhancing their movement capabilities....
A Checkers-like game that uses linear movement. Men can move straight or diagonally forward. Similarly, a line of men can advance as a group straight or diagonally forward. Kings move like a queen in Chess. Men and kings capture orthogonally only. Kings can capture at the long range. Maximum capture is enforced. Since men can move over other men of their...