Magazine game from Jeux et Stratégie #4 A simple cooperative adventure game with a basic "Dungeon and Dragon" aim : get to the castle and pillage it without being killed by various monsters. Sitting between a role-playing-game and a board game, this was meant as an introductory RPG which could be played with or without a dungeon master. At the start of the...
A family strategy game accessible to all: those who already love the world of Alix and those who are discovering it! From 2 to 3 players individually, From 4 to 6 players in a team. Set off on a race through the Roman Empire to visit the cities to which Rome sends you on missions. Stop off in the great cities of the ancient world and be the first to return...
Easy abstract maze game. Every player start with 4 pawns in one of the four corners. On the board there are lying pieces (shaped like in Blokus). On your turn you can do both of two actions in the order you like: 1. move one of your pawns as far as you like in an orthogonal direction, blocked by obstacles. 2. move 1 piece as far as you like in orthogonal...
In teams, or one on one, you are trying to make your side victorious in the Québec referendum. By moving from region to region, you're collecting cards that will give you votes (points) at the end of the game. When pawns meet in the same region, a trivia question is asked to the player who has just landed. If the player fails, the other team can try to...
Abstract connection game played on a 17x17 board. Each player has a "Manipulator" piece which moves by making a rook move, then dropping a pawn on the square arrived on, then making a second rook move at right angles to the first. On a player's turn they either move their Manipulator in the manner described, or they capture one or more opposing pawns by...
Le Sultan du Feu is a solitaire game simulating the campaign of the Egyptian expedition from July 1798 to September 1801 Directoire required by the Directoire and led by General Bonaparte. In this game, a map in two parts (2xA3) is the historical area of this campaign: the Upper and Lower Egypt, Palestine and Syria, from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. 1...
Trivia game from the same people who brought us the famous and much loved Le Docte Rat. This time, they chose the Québec province (Canada) tourist attractions as a theme. The object of the game is to be the first to reach Québec, the province's capital. You move around the lily (tour du lys), the province's emblem, trying to reach each of the four...
This game of French origin derives its name from the French names of the wind directions West-North-East (Ouest-Nord-Est) and is played on a circular board showing four arms, like the vanes of a windmill. Each such arm consists of three paths of seven cases, leading up to a eighth case (one per path) which is located on a mounted, turnable disc in the...
(from Pratzen editions webpage:) This game system is a double-blind system using an umpire. Players can communicate only through written messages. It uses maps of the period and a simple system to manage units. Combats are solved using a face to face system, simple but precise, with the morale as the main endpoint. Combats can also be fought using any...
It's a race around the board to advance yourself, and trip up your opponents. Do you have the 'heart' to 'club' down your opponents? Beware, they might just give it back in 'spades'. A little gem of a game for all you 'diamonds' in the rough. Be the first player to move all your tokens safely around the board. Players move tokens around a board, based upon...
In The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percival Blakeney Baronet and his group of friends aim to undermine the bloodthirsty revolution by saving French aristocrats from the guillotine. Danger of being captured and delivered to the guillotine themselves is real. Their final objective is to discover the location of the young Dauphin and free him. The...