西藏夾棋 (Tibetan wedging game) or 青海藏棋 (Qinghai chess) is an abstract strategy game played on a 5x5, 7x7 or 9x9 Alquerque-style board. Players take turns to place their stones on an empty intersection until the board is full except for the center intersection; then they take turns to move a stone to an adjacent empty intersection. When a piece of one color is...
Ticket to Ride: Märklin is the third installment in Days of Wonder's best-selling Ticket to Ride series. The board for Märklin is based on a map of Germany and each individual card in the deck depicts a different Märklin Trains model. A DVD introducing players to the Märklin line of model trains is included [Edit: DVD no longer included in recent runs.]...
Alvin & Dexter – A Ticket to Ride Monster Expansion can be added to any of the various games in the Ticket to Ride series that designer Alan R. Moon and publisher Days of Wonder have released since 2004. These monsters stymie players both during the game and once it ends. During play, no routes can be built into or out of a city where Alvin or Dexter are...
Possibly trying to cash in on the Twister fad, Tie 'N Tangle aims for the same type of party/dexterity play experience. Each player is given a disk in one of four colors to stand on. A ball of the same color is attached to the disk via a 12 foot length of twine. An outside player ("the umpire") uses a spinner to direct the players how to loop their...
Tierra a la Vista is a cooperative game for 2 to 4 players and 40 minute games, where we will become treasure hunters, crew members of a drifting ship trying to return to the mainland with their coffers as full as possible. The game consists of 2 phases. A planning phase where players will move their characters around the ship collecting action points in...
A relatively fast, very playable point-to-point game at roughly regiment/combat command/brigade unit scale and 1-day per turn time scale, using my simple Dark Crusade combat table and system, plus Disruption and fortification. U.S. starts with 19 units, Germans with many more. Playing time is a couple hours. Special Peiper, Bayerlein, and Abrams leader...
Game allows players to play on two PGA Tour courses, St. Andrews (Scotland's home of golf) or TPC Sawgrass (Florida) with its famous island green. Players can choose from Tiger Woods, John Daly, Colin Montgomerie, and Jim Furyk each with different abilities. See what happens on the DVD, then decide what you would do! Play solo or with up to three other...
Co-operative trivia game on history, mainly Belgian and European. Players move their pawns through six different periods in history. For each move he makes, the active player must answer a question about that period. When answered correctly he draws a token (mostly hour glasses) and gains one point on the players' mutual life scale. For each wrong answer...
The board is made up of 81 tiles placed differently each time you play. The configurations and fun are nearly limitless. With such a dynamic board, you may only be able to move a few tiles on one turn, while on another turn you might be able to cross the entire board! Win by collecting points scattered around the board and getting the highest score before...
A set of 4 cards given to people whom pre-ordered the game at the Board & Dice website or whom will buy it at Spiel 2022. They can create an asymmetric start: each player places their architect and merchant as indicated on the cards and gets the indicated bonuses. When playing with the promo cards, the amount of starting gold for the 2nd/3rd/4th player is...
Tilt is yet another marble race game. The object of the game is to be the first player to move all four of his marbles around the board and into the center "home" area. The twist is that the board see-saws up and down depending on the position of the marbles. At the start, the board is perfectly balanced, but as the players move the marbles, the board...