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...
Leap Frog! is a game for 2-4 players. In Leap Frog! each player takes control of a frog in a pond filled with lily pads of varying heights. Players then hop their frogs between lily pads in an attempt to eat a variety of different flies. At the end of the game, each player counts the point value of the flies his or her frog has eaten. The frog that has had...
A mini game for 2 players by David Smith Published in Plato magazine Before You Start Draw a large circle and place 9 circular spaces at equal intervals around the circle. One player uses 4 small silver coins as pieces. The other player uses 4 small bronze coins. The Play Each player in turn places one of their pieces on the playing board until all but one...
Leap Frog is a game created in New Zealand where opponents pieces are captured by leaping over them. To start each player in turn places one of their four counters in any slot of the nine slots around the circle on the board. Each player in turn then performs a slide move, double jump or jump move, though if the next player can not move, the player who...
A Chinese Checkers-style game From website; Start: 10 stones of their own color for each player on the triangular sections whose point is the center of a side of the board Play: Take turns jumping any one of your stones over another stone directly next to it, to an empty intersection immediately on the other side of the stone being jumped, on the same...
Leapfrog is an alquerque-style game played on a square board of 97 spaces in a complex pattern. Each player has a Frog King and 8 Frog Pawns and the winner is the first player to get their Frog King to the central space. Each player on their turn moves one piece a series of "leaps" — each leap being over exactly one occupied or unoccupied space. If the...
A mini-expansion for Leaving Earth (a pseudo-historical game about the Space Race) adding support for the planet Mercury. It comes with location cards to allow travel to and from the planet, along with missions to complete on and around Mercury, and component cards to represent samples taken from the surface. This expansion was offered for free to anyone...