Triplexity, and its sisters Triple-Triplexity, Duple, Double-Duple, and Monotony, were created in 1984. The designers had been playing Go, but couldn't find a balanced way to play three. So they created a grid composed of triangles laid into a hexagon shape, and designed Triplexity. Stones are played on the intersections of the grid-lines. The object of...
Tromino Go is played using two differently-colored sets of 15 trominoes, which are all three squares in an "L" shape. The trominoes are lettered A, B, and C. After the first four trominoes are played using a different set of rules, players have to play in the letter sequence (A, B, C, then back to A), and also play so that no trominoes with the same letter...
(ENG) Cogwheels is a 2-person abstract strategy game, where using standard 6-sided dice guarantee balance of the game, as well as random factor. A single game lasts for about 10-20 minutes. The object of the game is controlling square consisting of 4 fields by your checkers. The characteristic of Cogwheels allows each player to move, or even pusch away the...
Tom the Turkey is no dummy. He knows that Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and he needs to get out of here before you and your friends fence him in. Players take turns playing fence pieces trying to capture Tom. But with every piece, Tom also makes a move! Plan your moves carefully, but if you get stuck, you can always lure Tom back with Turkey...
2 players Dark and Light Materials 8x8 checkerboard 56 bi-color pieces A supply of plastic rings Object The game ends with victory for the first player that makes a four in a row; consisting of friendly ringed or non-ringed pieces that are orthogonally or diagonally adjacent. Otherwise, the player still able to move is the winner. Setup Stack the 56 pieces...
Players sit on opposite sides of the playing board, with scoring columns in the lower right corner. Each player takes 27 regular chips (one will use the pink side while the other will use the orange side), 2 double chips and 1 stop chip. Each player puts all his chips into the holder and takes 3 scoring pegs in his color. The scoring pegs allow tracking...
Twigs is a tile-laying game that uses polytwigs of 5 segments called ‘pentatwigs’. There are 12 different pentatwigs (discarding symmetries). Players alternate turns placing one of their pentatwigs according to some simple rules, trying to enclose as many areas as possible. This stand alone expansion contains the same components as the base game, but in...
TWRS is a strategy game for 2 players, which can be played in about twenty minutes. The game board consists of a grid of 11x11 lines. Playing takes place on the lines of intersection (like Go). Each player possesses three towers (hence TWRS). Each turn you must move one of them. You can move a tower horizontally or vertically, as far as you wish. You can't...
Uncertainty Principle is a quick-playing original abstract game played on an 8x8 grid board. The starting position is an empty board. The objective is to end the game with the most stones or markers of the player's color. The uncertainty principle demonstrated by game play is that a player may choose the location of their next move but not the type of...
Parker Brothers pentomino game for 2 to 4. Play the last piece to win the game. This game is an updated version of the earlier Pan-Kai by the same author, to which Universe adds the three and four players variants. The game box featured publicity stills from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey." In the movie, one of astronauts plays Universe with Hal (the...