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...
The game is played on a 13x13 board, with black and white stones. On each turn, each player dispatches a stone in an orthogonal direction starting from a friendly stone already on the board, as far as he likes provided it never encounters and non empty cell. When it stops it grows a pentomino, a tetromino, a trimino or a domino, provided those cells are...
Doge (short for "the Dumbest cOnnection Game Ever") is a drawless connection game for two players: Black and White. It is played on the intersections (points) of an initially empty square grid (board). The top and bottom edges of the board are colored black; the left and right edges are colored white. Black plays first, then turns alternate. On your turn...
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...
The game, which is known by many names and has been released in many versions, was invented in 1889 by the French mathematician François Edouard Anatole Lucas and first named La Pipopipette. Boxes is a plasticised version of a game we used to call Dots and Dashes. In the paper and pencil version, you draw a grid of dots and then each player must...
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...