History's First Understandable Set of Game Directions The 15 Timeless Classics: Backgammon Checkers Go Nine Men's Morris Cats and Dogs (aka Blue & Gray) Solitaire Roundabouts (aka Surakarta) Brax Mancala (aka Kalah) Hasami Shogi Hoppers (like 2-player Halma) Dalmatian Pirates and Volga Bulgars (aka Fox & Geese) Hex 3-D Tic Tac Toe (aka Qubic) Fandango (aka...
By all appearances, Go is just two players taking turns laying stones on a 19×19 (or smaller) grid of intersections. But once its basic rules are understood,Go shows its staggering depth. One can see why many people say it's one of the most elegant brain-burning abstract games in history. Players place one stone at a time on the board at an empty...
Subtitled "The American Go Game." Campaign! was published in 1961 to reflect on the War Between the States. The game board is made up of squares 18 long and 15 wide, with various "battlefields" interspersed among the blocks. Each player starts with 72 wooden discs. Each turn, a player rolls the dice and adds discs to his or her lines, attempting to...
"Go-Moku" (Japanese - also spelled "Gomoku") or "wuziqi" (Chinese) is a very old game played with a Go set. The game can also be played on a sheet of graph paper using X's and O's. It is similar in idea to tic-tac-toe, but far greater in scale and complexity. The name means "five points." It is debated whether this game originated in China or Japan, with...
Against the Odds magazine #6 A solitaire game simulating the three day battle for the pass at Thermopylae from 18 August to 20 August 480 B.C. Includes a 23" by 34" mapsheet, 240 half-inch die-cut counters, 8 page rule book, and two copies of reference charts. No ground scale is specified, each combat unit is 100 men, each full game turns represents one...
"GOAL: Campionato di Calcio a Squadre" put 22 1:72 plastic miniatures football players on a playing field represented by a green cardboard with a 25x17 grid overimposed. Each player rolls two dice and moves one or more of their 11 players to reach the ball and run it along a straight path. Goal is to bring the ball over the goal line. 15 minutes to try to...
Göbeklitepe, which has a sacred consciousness, bears the traces of productivity culture. In addition, it is the oldest known cult building group with its beliefs about death and rebirth, the belief that there is life after death, and compositions applied on stones. My work is an ancient board game consisting of t-columns, animal drawings, figures and the...
Godsfire is a space conquest game with politics, government and production rules. Three dimensional movement is simulated by showing multiple levels within each hex, a system later used by Holy War. Published by Metagaming in two versions, the first in a ziplock bag and the second in a box. Later re-published by Task Force Games. Godsfire has counters for...
In this beautifully decorated game, you use tools to explore asteroids and unearth galactic treasures that earn victory points. But be careful: there are pitfalls, aliens and bot glitches. The game initially consists of 9 stacks of 9 cards each. In each turn, 2 of 6 tools are available. Only 3 tools can be used at the beginning. Each round you choose two...
From Wikipedia: Gonnect is a strategy board game for two players invented by João Pedro Neto in 2000. The game is played with standard go equipment (though 13x13 boards are often preferred to 19x19) and all the rules of Go apply, except that players can't pass and the pie rule is used to determine who goes first. The goal of the game is to construct a...
Slappy, the mischievous ventriloquist dummy, has unearthed a cursed secret, unleashing spine-chilling monsters from Horrorland upon the unsuspecting town. Your mission in Clue: Goosebumps: thwart Slappy's sinister plan by uncovering which monster is aiding him, where they are concealing him, and the treacherous traps they've laid. Will you save the town...
The Tower-Doors of the Hindu Temples, known as Gopuram, have a pyramidal shape and they are orned with heavenly scultures and other divine and celestial beings. This is the sancta-santorum entrance to the whole Temples in the South of India. We are in the South of India, in the 11th century. The Chola dinasty is governing peacefully within the borders for...