Jerusalem is the boardgame of the 1948 conflict in which Israel established itself as a nation. The tactical battle has the Jewish forces attempting to keep open or bypass with a new road, the only source of food for the city. In Jerusalem, the players do not merely move, but conduct an operation. This creates a unique flow of play which gives a true feel...
Jeson Mor ("9 horses") is a two-player board game played on a 9x9 checkerboard that originates in Mongolia. This game was described in "The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants" (by David Pritchard). Each horse moves like the Chess knight. The goal of the game is to move one of your own horses to the middle cell of the board and then to move that horse outside...
Jester’s Court, Suit Thyself! is a 2 to 4 player game for ages 9 and up. It has unique movement and competitive mechanics with subtle degrees of luck and strategy. Using cards, players maneuver their Mage on a grid and attack other players to weaken their avatars and eventually cause them to lose some of the suits they’ve collected. Blocking stones may...
Jetan, or Martian Chess, is a two-player abstract game played on a 10-by-10 board. Each side has a set of twenty pieces of varying types, with each type having its own set of movement options. The game is unlike traditional Chess in a few important respects: All pieces in Jetan have limited movement (i.e. the Chief moves three spaces in any direction or...
The game is played with 20 pieces each on a 10x10 square board. Each piece has a numeric value, based on a military rank, which is hidden from the opponent and only revealed when an attacking piece moves in front of a square occupied by an opponent's piece. In most cases, the piece with the highest value wins and the losing piece is removed from the board....
Easy to learn, simple to play, yet always a challenge. Complete your puzzle and find your mastercard to win...but move the wrong way and you could be jiggered. In Jiggered, players traverse a board with their markers collecting numbered personal puzzle pieces in order, then finally their mastercard. Dice is used for movement, but rolling a six means the...
"Jihad!: The Rise of Islam, 632-732 A.D." is a board-wargame simulation of the first century of Islamic expansion after the death of Mohamed, the Prophet and founder of the Islamic religion. During this period a holy war of conquest and the religious conversion of non-Arab peoples were the mainsprings of Islam and the Arabs progressed from a religious...
There is only one pawn to be moved by all players: Emma, the train. Each player has 6 colored tickets in his hand and may play several on his turn, if the train can be moved in the correct direction to the next destination (= next number on the board). The color is correct according to the position of the Gurumusch mountain, which can be changed when you...
Jin Li (锦鲤) is the Chinese word for Koi. Koi are friendly fish. They love getting close to other koi, rubbing up against each other, gathering in small groups. In Jin Li the players each control two koi in a pond. They swim their fish through the placid water, maneuvering around or jumping over stones that are dropped into the pond, and score points by...
A card-driven horse race game in which players secretly bet on either a winner, a second-place horse, or a double of the two. Each of the four horses can be moved by any player. Some of the cards allow specific movement of one horse a number of spaces; the rest of the cards can move any of the horses, but only one that is in a certain position in the race...