From the game instructions sheet: "This is a simple game designed to help the players understand and appreciate the cultures and customs of the different communities in Singapore. Through the game, the players can also learn to appreciate the importance of racial harmony in our multi-racial society." The game is played on a large paper board with a picture...
20TH and 21ST Century Skirmish Wargame Rules These miniatures rules have the unique feature of, your side keeps going until you either fail at something, or the other side successfully interrupts your actions. From the designer notes: "The rules are designed to be used for World War Two, Korea, Vietnam and The Soviet-Afghan War. That does not mean that...
This game is based upon C. J. Cherryh's Hugo winning Downbelow Station novel. It uses area like movement between jump points for starships to move around a map of explored space. Conflict can either be resolved strategically or in an optional tactical hex and counter method. The game's victory is determined on how many supplies can be delivered or enemy...
In essence, Competition is a four-handed game of Checkers. However, there are several unusual twists to the game that keep it from fitting neatly into one category. First, each player starts with a limited supply of play money. There are costs associated with various moves, so it is possible to lose by running out of money. Second, each player only starts...
This game is a gem used in the Boy Scouts to teach orienteering - this skill of using a compass to navigate. You set up 10 stakes spaced at 10 foot intervals, there are several cards that you give to each team and it has a direction and distance of 3 legs. Each team starts at one stake and navigates to the final stake. You get points for how close you are....
Complete the Atlas, a.k.a. ブランクワールド (Blank World) is a Japanese game of world exploration. Set in Portugal in the late 15th century, King Afonso V enters into a trade agreement with Lisbon's great merchant Ferdinand Gomez. Instead of granting subsidies to explore, the agreement entitles Gomez to exclusive trade in the specialty products obtained from the...
This is a "simulation" of fan experiences at an average science fiction convention. The rules and event cards are full of "old school" fannish in-jokes. After registering at the hotel and convention, you wander through four boards with the various function rooms of a convention hotel. Players gather Pleasure, Glory, Survival, and Embarrassment points by...
This game war released approx. in the mid 1960s by Verlag Hoppenstedt from Darmstadt/Germany as a merchandising game for the Dresder Bank AG. The name Concentra is the name of a big German investment fund and the game leads players to learn about investing and divesting with stocks. Up to 8 players move around the board three times. The player with the...
Confederate Rails is a game that allows the players to operate the historical railways of the Confederate States of America (CSA) during the American Civil War. Not only do they have to deliver goods, supplies and military loads during difficult time, but they have to adjust to a dwindling rail network." This is a great pick-up and deliver game, the 24...
This is a self-published expansion to Richard Berg's Confederate Rails. In addition to further loads and contracts, players are now forced to deal with the interference of Confederate Generals Braxton Bragg and Joe Johnston as they lead the South into defeat. To complicate matters further, there is now interference from Richmond as well as a Navy that...