This game could be described as Battleship with words. The board is a bi-fold, with a ribbon connecting the two sides to provide support for tenting on a table. Each side of the board has two areas - the lower portion contains a thin ledge on which to place the letter tiles and a coordinate system. The upper portion has the coordinates as well as holes...
Many balloon travelers want to reach the clouds. The balloons come in the six colors, but the travelers show different combinations of these colored balloons. The players move the travelers, but very player favors in secret one of the six colors. The players also move 7 crows that destroy balloons in the other players' colors. The player with the most...
(From designer's web site) "A fast, simple, combined air, sea, and land combat system. Hidden deployment, sometimes compromised by Allied "Magic" code-breaking intelligence. Primary emphasis on the naval war, with a sleek, factorless combat results system a 3rd Grader can understand. Game includes: B-17s and Bettys, Japanese "Long Lance" torpedoes, YAMATO...
Skystrike is a World War 2 Pacific Theater of Operations Nautical wargame cited by the designer as very suitable for novices in that genre. The game is based on the crucial battle for Midway Island on the 4th June 1942. To win, the Japanese player has to sink the United State's aircraft carriers and thus capturing Midway Island. The American player wins by...
This web-expansion for Greg Porter/BTRC's SLAG! is authorized by Greg Porter, and is listed on his support page http://www.btrc.net/html/suppmain.html#SLAG. Players build the stellar map tiles, place their systems upon them, and build the space map from them. From there, it is a low randomness 4X game using the SLAG! rules. There are a few new SLAG!...
This game was funded on Kickstarter and a few basic copies appear to have been delivered. However, most users backed KS deluxe copies which were not. Slash-accre!: A Slasher Movie Game is a board game tribute to 1980's slasher films, drawing inspiration from the stereotypes and conventions of the genre. A group of unsuspecting teens are throwing a party at...
From the publisher: Slasher Flick: Revenge of the Bogeyman in Exciting 2-D "This Butcher Does More Than Bring Home the Bacon!" Simulates the action in body-count movies such as Halloween, Friday the 13th, Silent Scream and others. One player represents the Bogeyman, a superhuman maniacal mass murderer, and the other takes the part of the collection of...
In Sleepers, you are the leader of a resistance network operating in occupied France during World War II. Your primary mission is recruit a network of operatives working throughout the country; failing that, eliminating the other networks which are interfering with your own would allow you to build your network without interference. When first recruited...
Explained in Gladstone's Games to Go, Sliders is an abstract strategy game played on a 1x9 grid with coins (or similarly small objects). Players determine the amount of coins in 8 stacks as well as the maximum movement (slide) along the grid by secretly writing down numbers and adding them together. The player to move the final piece into the 9th box...
From the game rules : Smithereens : The End of World War II in Europe is a simulation of the last five months of the World War II on that continent. A "what-if" alternative history scenario is also included that allows players to examine the possibility of World War III breaking out at the conclusion of World War II. This is a two- or multi-player...
Smoking Gun is the winner of the 2015 BGG Microgame Design Contest! Smoking Gun, a noir tale of crimes, secrets, and investigations. Players take on the role of detectives, piecing together a central case in which their reputations (and even their lives) are at stake. In the end, only one detective will crack the case and become the hero... but at what...