The 1952 game Stadium Checkers was the most complex and the liveliest version of this gravity-based, logic-puzzle race game. A special concentric 'stadium' is required, along with 5 marbles or balls beginning at the start quadrants on the stadium's uppermost and outermost ring. The earliest version of the game had 7 internal stepped rings, while later...
From the publisher's Web site: Paris, Berlin, London - you are off on an exciting city tour! However, rather quickly it becomes evident that everyone wishes to visit a different city! So everyone attempts to direct the journey so that the next bus stop will be at one's planned destination. In the end, who will have visited the most of their favorite...
"City rallye" is a fairly simple roll-and-move car racing game. The cars race through city streets obeying basic traffic laws such as driving on the right, not stopping in the middle of intersections etc. In conjunction with each die-roll a card must be revealed which tells the player how they can move (or cannot). There's a no-overtake zone where cars in...
This is a kind of chess game on the three-dimensional game board which has to be assembled from cardboard components before the first game. The winning condition is to either reach the highest square of the field ("throne") with the king or to check-mate the opponent's king. Other player's pawns cannot be eliminated, though. Besides the king, the "pawns"...
The Stake-Out is a 2 player unequal-forces strategy game. That darn Vampire has gone too far! With his flowing locks, eye-liner, and accent, he's setting the bar too high and the women-folk aren't willing to marry a simple guy anymore. They want poetry and compliments, charm and *ugh* romance! *shudder* Enough is enough! It's time for us villagers to stand...
Stalingrad Solitaire is a solitaire game simulating the last weeks of the encircled German 6th Army in the pocket German troops nicknamed “The Cauldron” that formed in and to the west of the city of Stalingrad when Soviet troops broke through the Wehrmacht’s front lines in December 1942. You represent 6th Army’s commander, General Paulus. All actions of...
Stampede is played on a 12x12 grid of circles, with a square of nine circles removed from each corner. There is a central “open range” area of thirty-six circles that separates four side areas, one for each player’s starting positions, where they will place nine Cattle pieces and nine Cowboy pieces in numerical order according to the markings on the board...
Oh, no! The barnyard critters have gotten loose! And it's your job to round them up. The objective of the game is to 'round up' the most points worth of critters, which consist of different barnyard animals that vary in point value. However, the critters move on their own; so you have to direct them to your corral with fences or surround the critter out in...
Two Variants of "Stapeldammen"There are at least two different games called "Stapeldammen" (i.e. "stacking checkers"), which are played in the Netherlands. They are both boardgames of abstract strategy. Variant IStapeldammen I has been reported to exist at least since the early 1960s, although it may be much older. It is played on a 10×10 checkers board...
Star Borders: Aliens from designer Lance McMillan and developer Alan Emrich is a complete, 2-player stand-alone game that introduces two new factions, the Rhame Swarm (a.k.a., the “Bugs”) and the C1B0R6 Collective (a.k.a., the “Bots”) that are fighting to establish control of a contested region of the galaxy in the Star Borders universe. This game is...
From the product page: In Star Borders: Humanity 2nd edition, two factions: the Grand Imperium and the Free Alliance are fighting to establish control of a contested (if not particularly important) ‘backwater’ region of the galaxy. Each player represents the commander of one faction’s forces. Unfortunately, each player’s position as a Governor / Viceroy /...
You are a merchant in space, traveling throughout the galaxy looking for the best cargo to sell. The most sought-after goods come from the frontier worlds, for which the colonies back home will pay top price. But you’re not the only merchant in the business… your competitors are after those same profitable goods! As you race to get there first, the...