The aim of the game is to find enough food for your dinosaur so that it can found a nest and ensure that its species will survive. It is possible to collect food but also you can fight for it with other dinos. As well as in prehistoric times in this game dinos get into dangerous situations. They can be threatened by cruel Tyrannosaur Rex or by lava coming...
Dioses del Nilo is a strategic and tactical board game for two players based on Egyptian mythology. The objective of each player is to defeat their opponent by skillfully moving their pieces on the board. How to play? The game is divided into two phases: the placement phase and the combat phase. Each player's field is divided into two: vanguard and...
From the box: The battlegrounds are quiet, but full of tension. One false move, a deliberate or accidental casualty, and hostilities will be renewed. Then the game is declared Lost. To win, a lasting peace must be made. To realize that objective, the players each send out a team of Diplomats to each other's Castles to secure the respective Royal Signatures...
"A Bloodless Battle for Two Players" The premise (from the magazine write-up): "If chess is an abstraction of war, how differently might the game have evolved in a world where war was unknown? Perhaps a strategy game like this one is played on some peaceful planet, where a nation can conquer its neighbor not by war but by infiltrating its citizenry with...
Dipole, played with a Checkers set, begins with two stacks of checkers: a stack of 12 white checkers in White's nearest row, and likewise for Black. A stack, or a portion of a stack, is moved a distance equal to the number of checkers in the moved stack. So a three-stack, for example, can be moved a distance of three squares. Non-capturing moves must be...
Disc-Triangles is one of A-O-A's "Big Games," with a 25" x 25" board (large for an abstract) and pieces 3" across. The game is a sort of Reversi/Othello variant - as in that game, you try to surround the opposing pieces and flip them over to your color. The difference is in how surrounding works. Here, you can do it either Go-style (occupy all points...
In Disci, you want to move your pieces across the board and into the opponent's starting zone before they can do the same. You can move pieces individually or jump over a piece to land on the empty space just past it. In doing so, however, you may not enter the large space in the center of the board. What's more, if you end up on a space marked with an...
Discover The Way is a strategic game that requires adaptation, planning, risk vs reward choices, and luck. Each player builds the world as the game is played and the decisions start off right away. Players need to decided if they are going to defend, attack, upgrade, or a combination. Each player has a relic to grab from another player’s board which means...
The game is played on a 13x13 board, with black and white stones. On each turn, each player dispatches a stone in an orthogonal direction starting from a friendly stone already on the board, as far as he likes provided it never encounters and non empty cell. When it stops it grows a pentomino, a tetromino, a trimino or a domino, provided those cells are...
Distrix is an award-winning game of skill in which two players, Red and Blue, battle to control a 6x6 region called The Matrix. The number in each square of the matrix equals power, and Red and Blue are equally powerful. During the game, players use colored tokens to group the squares into 9 districts, one square at a time. As districts are formed, power...
Disuko! is an abstract puzzle strategy sudoku dice game in which players strive to run out of their dice first by taking turns rerolling, moving, and/or placing their dice on a 6x6 sudoku grid. Extra actions are acquired by completing sections of the board (rows, columns, boxes, or the sixth of any number). Players must keep an eye out for opportunities to...
Djambi, or Chess of Machiavelli is a game for 4 players that can be played with only 3. There also exists a 5-player version called Pentachiavel. It is a game of treason. Each player is the leader of a political party composed of 9 pieces: 1 Leader 1 Journalist 1 Assassin 1 Provoker 1 Necromobile 4 Activists who roam a 9x9square board where all squares are...