The game is a draughts or checkers game for a 3-D board of the type popularized by the TV and film franchise Star Trek. The rules for that game including how the board works can be found at the following link on Chess Variants: http://www.chessvariants.org/3d.dir/startrek.html Play begins with black pieces on all dark squares of the lowest fixed board and...
3-high is a solitaire or co-operative Icehouse game in which the player(s) attempt to construct five trees of Icehouse pieces on a chessboard. Pieces are placed randomly on the board at the start of the game. Players are subsequently dealt a hand of playing cards. These cards can be played next to the board to move a selected piece a number of spaces equal...
A little game of conquest. Two Houses against each other, one kingdom to conquer! In this 8 card microgame, 2 players each vie to conquer three of the five lands, or become king (by conquering 2 lands with a total value of 18 or more). The first to do so wins. Each land battle takes place as players add one of 5 army types to the land, then maneuvers them...
3 Man Chess is played “in the round,” that is, the field of play is circular. For the most part, 3 Man Chess is played just like conventional Chess. – there was NEVER any intention of trying to make the game “better” because that can’t be done. However, being able to play with three minds interacting creates situations that never arise in conventional...
3D Pawn is like a simple 3 dimensional chess, played around a 3 by 3 square cube just using pawns. Players take turns (starting with white) to move a piece. Pawns can be moved forward and sideways but not backward. Pawns can also take diagonally. If a pawn is on its starting side, it can be moved twice in the same direction. Goal: players aim to win by...
3D XYZ Chess is played on four levels, with 4x4 spaces each, effectively a 4x4x4 array of cubes. The game thus contains 64 spaces, or cubes, the same number as a regular Chess board. Moreover, each player controls a 16-piece army that is identical to the regular Chess army, albeit with some altered powers. The board is placed with vertical corners (rather...
A two player game played on 3 standard chess boards arranged vertically one above the other. The "light" squares are transparent to help see what pieces are where. Each player starts with 16 pieces on each board in almost the same setup as standard chess. There is only one king and he starts in the normal position on the centre board. Kings, Queens and...
"3rd Millennium Chess does for chess what Christopher Columbus did for the world." - Shannon Rene Gardner, designer 3rd Millennium Chess, AKA 3MChess, is a chess variant played on a wrap-around cylindrical 8 x 14 board. There are two other differences from conventional chess: 1. Each player begins with a row of eight pawns on each side of the home rank....
40 Bridges is an abstract strategy game played on a grid of squares and octagons. Players try to win by either being the first one to move a piece into the opposing corner square, or by capturing all of the opponent's pieces. A piece may move to an adjacent space of the same type it started on (square or octagon) or jump over any adjacent friendly piece....