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...
どうぶつサッカー (a.k.a. Dōbutsu sakkā, which means "animal soccer") is a soccer-themed cousin of the simple Shogi variant Let's Catch the Lion! which replaces capture/promotion of a king with movement of a shared soccer ball. Player pieces can move one space orthogonally or diagonally. Moving onto the soccer ball token allows kicking it either one or two spaces...
Time streams have been crossed and now several versions of the doctor are running about the TARDIS at the same time! Choose from six modern regenerations of the doctor and try to make it across the TARDIS. But be careful, there are Daleks, Cybermen, and worse lurking about. Gameplay Tiles are randomly set up in a 7x7 grid, with each time representing a...
Welcome to Dolcania, the last refuge of the peaceful dodos... but also of a raging volcano! Save the dodos from the terrible eruption, but be careful, volcanic rocks are raining down and the dodos are panicking! Bring as many dodos as possible back to the center of the island, where they will be safe. Each turn can bring new threats: dodge the burning...
DOG House is a 4-player fixed team, trick-taker that uses 2 sets of double six dominoes and a 6x6 grid. Scoring will take place for winning tricks and for scoring majorities on a 6x6 grid. Pieces will be placed on the board by the losing team each trick that matches the coordinates on the grid of the domino they played and one of the colors present on that...