Loophole is a battle royale on a 5 x 5 grid. Players control a game piece with 9 lives and an immortal ghost piece. Dice are rolled to determine movement. Squares containing loopholes allow players to transport themselves around the grid. Players navigate opponent's game pieces, ghosts, and a mirror at the center of the board. If a player's life counter...
Loose Change is played on a diamond-shaped board of spaces with eight connections to their neighbors (except on the edges of the board). One player plays with four pennies and a nickel showing heads, the other with four nickels and a penny showing tails. On a turn a player moves any one of their coins any number of unoccupied spaces in any direction. The...
Line Up The Gemstones To Win! Loose Ends is an entertaining game of constant surprises, where good old-fashioned fun meets strategy and luck. Just roll the Pyramid Die and start taking the Gemstones out of the bag. But where should you place them on the Grid? Line them up in color patterns to form Scoring Combinations and win points. But fall short and...
Loot the World is a tile ownership, connect-the-board, & push-your-luck strategy game for 3 to 4 players. Take control of Victorian era trading companies in a rabbid race to convert land into cold hard cash over a series of rounds where each player takes their turn using a Progressive Turn Order mechanism. There are two ways to win the game: either be the...
At last you've found it; a legendary and mysterious labyrinth, rumored to hold many treasures! Unfortunately, you're not alone; you've been followed by other treasure raiders, and you'll have to act quickly and shrewdly to secure the plunder for yourself. OVERVIEW This is a thematic abstract spatial strategy game for 2-8 players in which players place and...
My design goals for this game were to mitigate the weaknesses found in ancient games using custodian capture, games like Dai Hasami Shogi and Latrunculorum. Features: 1) Random setup 2) Four moves per turn 3) Two special forms of Custodian capture I believe I came close to succeeding but I'll let you be the judge of that. Introduction: Lords and Vassals is...
Lords of Conquest is a strategy game of territorial struggle. You begin by taking turns selecting territories on a game map. Because of their locations and wealth, some of these territories will be important and powerful, while others will be insignificant and weak. The rich ones contain "resources" such as Gold, Horses, Iron, Coal, or Timber, which you...
Lords of Lore and Loot is a turn based game that allows each player to build their kingdom from within, explore their surroundings, and defeat the other players. Each round consists of accounting for income, building improvements in their kingdom, training combat units, and exploring the countryside with the player's heroes. The heroes can amass an army of...
". . . that above the drowned lands, the Middle Sea as is known to men, or else as the Shroud. It buoys we of the Salvar, its issue strengthens our bellies, it alike washes storm womb and the ashy roots of the Forges, it salutes the steaming Godwall and the last island Wardom before the Greater Sea, it guards us well from the lost lands where iron walked ....
Microgame #18 in the Metagaming Microgames series. From the box: Underearth is the ancient stronghold of the Dwarven Lords. This game covers the earthy realms' full history: from the height of Dwarven power to its decline in the days of dragonfire and destruction. Here, you will lead bands of Humans, Dwarves, Orcs and monsters on raids, wars and treasure...
From the box: "Mighty, magical holocausts, awe-inspiring Dragons, weird and terrible monsters, military battles on a grand scale. Which of the combatants, Order or Chaos, shall win? And can the forces of Neutrality maintain the precarious balance of power . . . An exciting, fast moving game of movement and combat in a fantastic world, where skill and...