Description from the publisher: “All the tension on the carrier exploded the moment we heard Comdr. Dixon's voice come in strong and clear: ‘Scratch one flattop! Dixon to carrier: Scratch one flattop.’” -- Stanley Johnston, war correspondent for The Chicago Tribune, on the sinking of the Shōhō The Japanese Empire invincibly thundered across the Pacific...
Wind Dizzy Bee up and listen as he buzzes around and moves up down and around the garden, scooping up honey pots and bringing them home to his beehive. The dial on top of the beehive tells players which color flower to put their honey pot on. But you can never tell if Dizzy Bee will scoop up a honey pot... or which one it will be. If he brings home all...
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...
The board consists of 12 hospital rooms bordered by hallways. Into each room is placed a randomly chosen patient card, which in turn is covered with four randomly chosen cards that are turned face-up. Each of those four cards represents an ailment. Each patient's ailments must be cured in the order that the cards are stacked, top to bottom. Each player...
Dodgem is a simple abstract strategy game invented by Colin Vout and described in the book Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays. It is played on an n×n board with n-1 cars for each player—two cars each on a 3×3 board is enough for an interesting game, but larger sizes are also possible. The board is initially set up with n-1 blue cars along the left...
In Dogs, each player owns a kennel and want to turn it into the largest and most comfortable shelter for city dogs. Each game round is divided into three phases: In Phase 1 players move their vehicles (trucks) through two different scenarios of the board, Field and the City, collecting stray dogs, rewards will be worth it, and abandoned dogs of various...
Work... like a dog! Dogville is a tableau-building worker placement game with over 50 unique purebreds and mutts – each with custom, breed-specific traits. Dogs thrive on responsibility, so adopt the ideal pack and match each dog’s traits to activities and authentic dog careers that make their tails wag. Their Joy (VP) will be your key to victory! Make...
Two players face off on a 9x9 board, trying to either capture their opponent's King or move their own King into their opponent's Castle. Four special squares allow the board to be rotated 90 degrees by the player who lands on them. The unique two-step moving process makes the game a challenge to master, and getting across the board to occupy your...
The Dolphin Training Game... The title says it all. Teach your dolphins many tricks like a Tail-walk or a goodbye wave and become the best dolphin-trainer of the bunch. The game is based on and uses actual dolphin names from the Dolphin Academy in Curacao. The game is actually a trivia game for the most part with over 200 cards with questions and...
Domina is a traversal game by noted New Zealand game and puzzle designer Karl Scherer. The object is to get one of your pieces to the opposite end of the board before your opponent does the same. The board is an 8x8 square grid, and the pieces are rectangles in two colors, seven for each player, each spanning two square spaces. Dominos in two colors on a...