Contrabando is a strategy game for two players. The player who moves the smugglers wants to get their pawns across the border (line in red and white). The player who moves the tax guard and the dogs, pretends to arrest as many smugglers as possible. The fiscal guard is positioned in the center of the third row (row with the red and white line), with his...
Dive into Coral Clash, a chess-like strategy game where you command an aquatic army of dolphins, turtles, and more, to outmaneuver your opponent in a war to create and own the coral reef. Victory is achieved through clever strategy: either checkmate your opponent's whale or dominate the board with coral control. The primary objective in Coral Clash is to...
From Zillions of Games: Court begins with each player having a force of twelve Peasants on the field. Each player has two Red Stones, two Blue Stones and an additional two Peasant in reserve. Play consist of either moving a piece on the field or placing a piece from reserve on a Peasant to form a new piece. Pieces move accordingly: PEASANT - The Peasant...
Before chess, there were the ancient Tafl games of the Nordic & Celtic people. Rooted in the same idea of military strategy, but with a less complicated rule set. Due to the less than stellar documentation of these games, there's a number of ways to setup the board, and approach your strategy, but the basics are always the same. Two teams, a king and his...
Primarily a learning game for IT specialists. Either you and your teammates secure your server as an admin or you try to take over the opponent's server in your hacker team, whereby the game is played like a tower defense with deck building. Computer scientists can learn key terms from the IT industry and acquire important soft skills such as team...
ダグエイトチェス (DaG Eight Chess) is a two player abstract game from Japan, a mix of Chess and Stratego on a smaller 5*5 chequer board. Players have a small Chess army that move across the board, but as face-down tokens. The pieces are one each of King, Queen, Rook, Knight and Bishop, and three Pawns. These pieces all move and attack as in normal Chess. But if a...
Dama is a classic two-player strategy board game that tests player’s tactical skills and foresight. Players take turns moving their pawns, aiming to capture their opponent’s pieces by jumping over them. The ultimate goal is strategically maneuvering your pieces to the opponent’s side of the board, crowning them and enhancing their movement capabilities....
A Checkers-like game that uses linear movement. Men can move straight or diagonally forward. Similarly, a line of men can advance as a group straight or diagonally forward. Kings move like a queen in Chess. Men and kings capture orthogonally only. Kings can capture at the long range. Maximum capture is enforced. Since men can move over other men of their...
Damier géographique is French game from the WWI-era. This game is a variation on the classical game of checkers, with a World War I theme. 2 teams of 2 players compete on a map of Europe that is overlaid with a checkerboard pattern. Each team has an equal number of pawns that represent armies. One team represents Germany and the Austrian Empire. The other...
Dark Spires is a small box 2-player abstract strategy game. A ring of 8 realm cards form the playing area. Players will summon their spire dice onto these cards and move them around the ring in an attempt to block and banish their opponent's spires while resurrecting their own. If your opponent is unable to either move or summon on their turn, you win!...
Diamonds & Pivots is a two player game played on an 5x5 hexagonal board. Each player passes or drops a friendly stone over an empty cell. If diamond patterns, with four friendly stones, are made the player must choose one, choose a stone from it (the pivot) and place its other three stones in a line starting from the pivot. If any enemy stone in the way is...
Djambi, or Chess of Machiavelli is a game for 4 players that can be played with only 3. There also exists a 5-player version called Pentachiavel. It is a game of treason. Each player is the leader of a political party composed of 9 pieces: 1 Leader 1 Journalist 1 Assassin 1 Provoker 1 Necromobile 4 Activists who roam a 9x9square board where all squares are...