Volatile Vintage is an engine builder that will have you building up vineyards in competition with others to produce the most wine barrels, all the while fighting off mob attacks, investing in your workforce, and signing accords with local villages. Print off a vineyard page for each player, shuffle a standard deck of playing cards, and grab a writing...
German war propaganda game to promote Stricker bicycles: A journey through Poland on the trail of the German army. The players take turns to roll and move. They start at space 1 in Danzig and have to reach Warschau at space 40. If a player gets on a red space, he wins a point. The player with the most points at the end of the game is the winner. Each red...
Each player represents an island inhabitant, who all are members of the mafia. Each player gets a set of certain tasks to fulfill, that means to get to certain places on the board. After rolling the dice you move your meeple, if you stop on a green field, you have to fulfill a randomly drawn card, if you stop on a field occupied by another meeple, you can...
"Waka Waka" means "Do it" in Swahili, and what players are doing in this game as African traders is buying goods – hides, salt, tea, textiles, jewelry and fruit from faraway lands – as cheaply as possible. The goods on offer, however, are mostly obscured, so whoever doesn't want to buy a pig in a poke, so to speak, might want to send out his chimpanzee for...
The WAKOUWA-Apparat is a device where the entire game board beneath a glass pane is shifted by turning the wheel, while the playing pieces remain stationary on the glass pane. When the wheel stops, all, or at least a larger or smaller portion of the pieces, are positioned on different images on the game board. This creates a completely new game situation...
Each player chooses one of the 4 colors of cones and places them stacked on top of each other on the starting area (compass rose in the corner of the playing field). At the beginning, each player may roll the die 3 times. If they roll a 6, they may place their first cone on the space of their color and may roll again, as after every 6. Depending on the...
Walk the Rainbow is a Pad Pad Game. Pad Pad games are board games on small pads (1/3 A4). The board and the rules are on every sheet and everyone gets a sheet. The pad and a pencil is all that is needed. No big board to lay out, no fiddly pieces, easy to carry and simple rules, so the games can be played almost anywhere; on a ferry, train, waiting room...
While Canadian publisher Somerville clearly licenced the name Easy Money from Milton Bradley, it published a very different version of MB's 1935 game during WWII and for a short period of time afterwards (dropping the word wartime from the title). The Monopoly-like mechanics are the same: roll and move, buy properties and businesses and make money. In this...
The World is adrift, in dire conditions. Climate change has upset every corner of the Planet, causing average temperatures to rise everywhere. The Desert is spreading everywhere creating new threats and new paths. The inhabitants of the Globe are fighting for control of the few remaining sources of drinkable water. Lead your Faction in this fight for...