The Year is 2112. Earth's resources are running out and your mission is to explore a planet to transform it into the new home of our species. Dice Colony is a roll & write style game in which you are going to be presented with many options. It is easy to understand, but only the player who plans and adapts best to unforeseen events will be the winner....
In the game of Dicke Dämonen, the players are magicians trying to rule the world. Curiously the world is smaller than you might think because in the eyes of a magician the world consists only of magical power lines and power fields, specifically four power lines: earth, fire, air and water. Wherever these lines enfold the space, the power fields are...
Most know of the tournaments of knights hosted by Arthur, but only a few know of Merlin's "Beast Hunt" tournament! In the tournament held on a remote isle, mages use magical seeds and their own sorcery to create fences of natural elements to enclose and capture various beasts. As one of the competing mages, you use your share of eighty custom dice as seeds...
You’ve heard the stories, seen the movies, but now the chance is yours to create history. For nearly 200 years, humanity has been fascinated by dinosaurs, ever since the first unearthing in Oxfordshire, England. From the mid 19th Century onwards, dinosaur discoveries were made around the world, on every continent and the rush was on. Throughout all of...
Imagine you are a dog. You've got a nice big lawn to play on. You have some sausages to eat, and a bone to chew on. You have even picked out a couple of comfy spots where the grass is a bit longer. Perhaps after lunch you might take a little nap. It's great being a dog! Now imagine there is another dog sniffing about on your lawn. It looks like this other...
From the publisher's press release (the game is scheduled to be introduced at The American International Toy Fair in New York City, February 17-23, 2005, and should be in stores by June 2005. You’ve never played Dominoes like this before ... it’s strategic, challenging and suspenseful, while at the same time, classic in its simplicity. Play dominoes on...
An entry in the 2001 About.com 8x8 Game Design Competition. Dominox is played on a standard Chess/Checkers board using a standard set of Domino tiles. Only tiles with 0 to 6 dots are used. One player is designated 'white' while the other is 'black.' The players take turn placing tiles on the board, starting with the player who is dealt the lowest numbered...
A version of the pencil-and-paper game Boxes, modified to allow (1) play by 2 to 4 players, and (2) a spinner that can dictate the number of segments the player must play or even their orientation (horizontal or vertical). Once the fourth segment of a square is played, the player claims that square by placing a dot of his or her color in its center and...
This book analyzes the Dots and Boxes game using Combinatorial Game theory. Berlekamp is a coauthor of the classic Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays. From the back cover: "This book is an essential guide to the game of Dots-and-Boxes and its mathematical underpinnings. Chapters of strategy are interspersed with 100 sample problems and their...
In this game from the Netherlands, the game pieces are half-spheres in red, white, and blue – just as the national colors of our neighboring country. Each player has game pieces of one color. The playing area consists of hexagonal spaces, each with a hollow in the middle. Players alternate taking turns. You move one of your game pieces until you arrive at...
Played on a 5x5 square board, this Canadian game is subtitled "The Classic Game", presumably because it is an orientally themed uber-variant of Tic Tac Toe. Each of the 3x3 corner quadrants of board represent the different seasons, and the goal of the game is to get a row of three stacks of counters placed in one of the seasons. Players alternate placement...