Each player places a set of 9 cones, 8 pawns and a king, in one of the corners of the board. The aim of every player must be to occupy the cone pattern in the middle of the board with their cones. The movement always occurs on the black lines by 1 square, outside the square bordered by a red line in all directions. Once entered, the red square may not be...
"NORAD" is the Mishler Company revised edition of a wargame originally published in 1973 by SDC's in Conflict Magazine #4. A solitaire variant is included. "NORAD is a representation of a hypothetical nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 . . . In 1977 the Mishler Company purchased the rights for NORAD. Only minor changes were...
The players take turns to roll and move. The game begins with the number 1 and ends with the number 60. Three dice are rolled, always at the same time. Whenever three dice are thrown, the points from only two dice are added together. The number of points the two dice have together is the number of numbers the player advances with his figure. However, if...
Vast obelisks, existing beyond time and space, are believed to represent the very essence of purity and chaos. Unknown powers endlessly summon, shift, and banish these obelisks, igniting massive rifts between dimensions. Through these rifts, Mensors have learned to channel their powers to manipulate this phenomenon. They have come to call this eternal...
In Octopus' Garden, players take the role of Octopuses competing to create the most beautiful gardens. Attract colourful seahorses and clown fish, without losing pearl-producing oysters to the hungry sea stars! Octopus' Garden is a tile-laying game for 2 to 4 players. Players chose which plant and animal tiles to purchase from a central market and then...
Okägo is an abstract 2-player game with simple rules and game-changing moves. In Okägo, players take turns placing pieces to outsmart their opponent and dominate the battlefield. But beware! The awesome tactic of jumping will quickly turn even the best offense on its head, disrupting, and dismantling strategies. Sometimes a strategy pays off. Sometimes you...
Doc Pop's One-Dimensional Chess is a chess variant that puts a new spin on the classic game of chess. The board consists of 16 squares in one row. Each of the two players have a pawn, a knight, a bishop, a rook, a queen, and a king. The pieces have modified rules that allow them to move in one-dimension. For instance, knights can jump 2 or 3 tiles from...
An abstract game (lightly themed as a 'King of the Mountain' style game in the Roman Coliseum), OM is played on a circle divided into 20 sections. Each player starts with 10 pieces. Rolling 2 dice (a Red die & a White die), the Red die forces each player to move a piece in the direction indicated, while the White die allows the player to move ANY piece in...
A chess variant for 2, 3, or 4 players. Orbital Chess is played on a large circular board which is assembled from four large puzzle-piece style segments. The board is double-sided, with one side being used for two and four player games, and the other for three player games. There are separate rules folders for three player and two/four player games, plus...
The two-sided game board allows for 2-4 and 3 player participation. Each player receives 4 pawns of one color. These are placed on the corners. The players take turns to roll and move in the direction of the arrows of the same color, along the track from "A" on the outside, clockwise to "B", then changing to the middle, anti-clockwise to "C", then changing...
The water stretches to the horizon. But even though the sea sometimes seems quite calm, the animals of the Baltic Sea know how to pass the time. Who is beating whom here? Does the starfish beat the seagull or the seal beat a cockle? Ostsee-Schach is a refreshing, fast chess variant by Dirk Holdorf, in which 2 players aged 8 and up compete with Baltic Sea...