14th October 1806: The clash between the new French ideas about war regarding movement and psychological energy and the old fashioned Prussian traditions on discipline and invincibility. Degree of difficulty: 4/6 Contents: Rigid, plastic cardboard box printed in 5 colors, giving the indications of the number and age of players, the duration of the game...
Jetan, or Martian Chess, is a two-player abstract game played on a 10-by-10 board. Each side has a set of twenty pieces of varying types, with each type having its own set of movement options. The game is unlike traditional Chess in a few important respects: All pieces in Jetan have limited movement (i.e. the Chief moves three spaces in any direction or...
Easy to learn, simple to play, yet always a challenge. Complete your puzzle and find your mastercard to win...but move the wrong way and you could be jiggered. In Jiggered, players traverse a board with their markers collecting numbered personal puzzle pieces in order, then finally their mastercard. Dice is used for movement, but rolling a six means the...
Jinxx is an abstract strategy game for 2-4 players featuring striking stacking pyramid-shaped pieces in three sizes and four colors--black, white, gray, and clear. In Jinxx, players jockey for position on a 3x3 grid. Pyramid size and a die roll determine your possible moves on each turn. Use your move to capture an opponent's piece or better position one...
The Game simulates the legendary world of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Barsoom. Players are involved in Barsoomian epics in the role of one hero or one of his companions, and strive to perform as nobly as those heroes of the past. There are evil villains to be met, Martian wildlife to be tamed, great treasures unique to Barsoom to be gained and lovely lasses to...
Jok dice game: Each player gets 1 meeple and starts at space 1 of the section of his color. The Players take turns to roll and move. On the roll of a 6 the player gets an extra roll. If a meeple gets on a prime number (framed spaces), the gets a "Jok"-token (joker). Each player may only get two tokens per game. The tokens may be used any time in the...
From the Italian company International Team comes this fairly simple game of piracy on the high seas. On a map that can only be considered a fantasy world you sail your galleon around the outer islands picking up treasure chests in the hope of delivering the treasures to his island in the middle of the board. Movement is handled by way of a wind disk....
Jot is a Scrabble-like game, played on a "write-on, wipe-off" board with special pens. Rather than building words from a limited number of letters, each player first rolls a special die, which serves both to dictate the limits of his/her word, and as a one-minute timer. (The die itself is pressure-sensitive, and will start timing when rolled.) Players must...
This is a very rare and strange wargame, if we call it so. It was published in order to sell it at the provincial Armory Museum and printed by the diputación (local government). Published in three languages, Spanish, Basque and English, it is a simple and bad wargame, but includes the full order of battle that can be used in order to recreate the last big...