Stora Turkish (2008)

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Category	Wargame Dice Sports Memory
Mechanic	Partnerships Pick-up and Deliver Simulation
Description	360° Air Hockey with sound FX. Snake, use your charm on that saloon girl and wheedle out the location of the sheriff's safe. The game includes:

Comments

I can not honestly say that these light SPI games have fared well over the years. Loved playing it.

Drive-In Knights! (2004)

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Category	Dice Animals
Mechanic	Dice Rolling
Description	A real-time card game in which players race to make words from the cards in their hand, while trying to stop their opponents from doing the same. Players move around 4 different animals (donkey, dog, cat and a cock). Players roll a die and move their Inuit to the fishing holes, but if they roll a walrus or a polar bear, the sun moves forward towards sunset. Two persons play at a time. The movies generate different income(represented by colourful and thick cardboard chips), and also have different rental prices to keep on showing them in your own theater.

Comments

Not my favorite from the Fluxx series as it can get to be longer than some of the others.

Cirkle Shiloh (1955)

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Category	Card Game Wargame
Mechanic	Campaign / Battle Card Driven Hand Management
Description	Shove Ha'penny is a traditional British pub (tavern) game of dexterity and skill dating from the the mid. It is your job to supply the building with beautiful and affordable lounge suites. As well as enabling the battle to be replayed as it happened, the game is designed to explore "what-if?" Questions (see "Scenarios", below), such as: Contents: The game was re-issued each year from 1993 to 1998, with a year update appended to each edition. 26 NEWS cards. Entrance to universities in the Federal Republic of Germany is dependent upon the German secondary school leaving certificate, called the Abitur.

Comments

Gorgeous Cards Very clever system where you try to 'break' one of your opponents three columns. The combat system is quite mechanical, rolling dices looking for hits according to the unt type's firepower.

Good game.

The only wargame I ever got my wife to play with me, so it gets a default rating of "5". Nice-looking map and excellent scenarios. While it lacks a Campaign Game, this is probably one of the best modules for ASL'ers looking to expand beyond geomorphic map scenarios. I'll stick to the tried and true dexterity games like Crokinole, WeyKick, Loopin' Louie, Piratenbillard, Tumblin' Dice, Zopp, etc. Then, after a few more plays, I think the game kindda grew on me.

Armies Castle Game (1993)

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Category	Wargame
Mechanic	Dice Rolling Set Collection
Description	If you love puzzles and games you will love From The Gecko™. Make a load of money!

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Reviewed on my blog.

A fun bidding game, now out in an English version, which extended family members and gamers alike are probably going to enjoy.

Looking for Filosophia English Edition. The theme is very attractive and I think most people would prefer the modern and jokey production chips and film titles to those of the original and much older ones. Played german version with very nice components.

Dion.

Glaub' Jr. Derby (2011)

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Category	Party Game Print & Play Dice
Mechanic	Pattern Recognition Point to Point Movement Simulation
Description	Rush Hour Scramble is a multi player competitive version of the popular solitaire puzzle game. Games designed to be played using the Warp Empires system are called Warp Empires modules. Victory: The first player to accumulate 75 Victory Points (VP) wins. This is no more than magnetic darts. All of this, is contained within a nicely constructed BOX about 2 1/2 inches deep, 6 1/2 inches wide, and 10 1/2 inches long. (2) PALE PEPSI. The electric panel is is operated on a 1.5 volt dry cell battery easily replaced.

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This is a new and exciting game for young and old. Low counter density, easy rules, fast playing. Counters are not stackable which simplifies the tactics. Easy to learn too but hard to master. I found a couple decks of old time western cards (copies) the kind with just the suite on them with little tiny card ID. Actually replicas of some famous card company from way back in the day.

A good, light, tactical war game. Very flexible game system, you can add in your own house rules depending on the scenario played. I'd like to add to the series. I enlarged the counters to make 3/4" extra thick clear coated beauties, made extra large maps and laminated them. Worth the price of admission!

This is a new and exciting game for young and old. I may be willing to trade for a copy. The card system makes for an interesting combat system. The game is handmade but of good quality.

Want to try it once more as a 4 player game.

Sinnet Junior (1994)

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Mechanic	Hex-and-Counter Roll and Move
Description	Wicketz is a Cricket sim using a quarter-board for the wicket, model batsmen, fielders, bowlers and umpires, a spinner for the deliveries and 246 cards for the strokes. Krypta Upiorow (Crypt of Wraiths) brings a new board and cards to encounter. But they are not alone, for early cannon such as the Culverin, clumsy as they are, have also been introduced. It's a lazy, crazy race around the house to end up right back where you started ... The winner is the first player to either complete a straight line of 5 of his own pieces or fully enclose any one or more opponent pieces inside 6 or more of his own pieces.

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It's so unpredictable and mostly based on luck but I have had so many enjoyable times with it.

Chaupama (1976)

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Category
Mechanic	Card Drafting Roll and Move Variable Player Powers
Description	(from the box) The aim of the game: Mice of different colors are hiding in a big Swiss cheese. They are also creatures of very high morality standards... Now, the farmers have had enough of it, and have decided to seize all the others' rabbits! But considering that every one of them wants to hide away his own bunnies, will it be that simple to catch others' bunnies? There are multiple ways to play. Passing the finishing line, the player receives a marker (not included - coins or matches are recommended!).

Comments

Being the designer, I won't rate the game. You haven't seen a luckfest yet!

Svussir (2011)

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Category	Wargame
Mechanic	Hex-and-Counter
Description	A simple roll and move childrens' game. The players take tiles from their hand which show either points or plus or minus.

Comments

I've got the Casper (1st) edition. But I do wnat it. Also a collosal set of cards that you can play at any time, thus killing opponents militaries, cultural personalities or to gain wealth, stop other cards or stop the current turn. But then, it is quite caotic, so anything could happen... Well done! I'd play it again but it isn't something I would ever consider purchasing. A less annoying problem is simply geography...just about every hex on the entire map has at least one slope hexside, even though the article makes it clear the gentle slopes weren't signficant. Strength advantage (no. Of attacking to defending units), position advantage (attacking to the flank or rear of the enemy), defender's defense DRM (yeah, you can read it as defense strength printed on the counters in other games), leader presence (+1 DRM for each leader participated in the battle), attacker status (-2 if the attacker it disordered when it attacks), defender's status (+2 DRM to attacking retired units).

One of the most weird games I have ever played. ;)

Man Game (1948)

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Category	Card Game Sports Racing
Mechanic	Auction/Bidding Set Collection Tile Placement
Description	A magazine game from Jeux et Stratégie #30. Each trivia card has 5 categories of questions: You can then place the piece on the base, building up your Thomas. The first player to complete their Thomas wins. Maida 1806 The player who manages to carry more containers from port to port is the winner. Players use these cards and a supply of fuel counters to complete historic NASA space missions in a race to be the first to land on the Moon. Can you overcome the new monstrosities and claim the Thunderstone?

Comments

The new smaller box and better dividers are excellent. Perhaps this was due to the fact that the monsters which came up first were too strong, as I was unable to go to the dungeon until I had a deck of 42 cards...

Poor card game with sloppy design.

Filyseiq (1999)

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Category	Card Game World War II Sports Wargame
Mechanic	Pattern Building
Description	Vae Victis issue 25. The rules of this game are similar to the card game "War". The game board (A2 size) is a 40 field long, 4 line wide oval track. This game use a "Time Point" driven mechanics and each time point represents one minute in real time. This is one of Vae Victis's larger games in terms of counters and markers, but still fits on the standard VV map (which is far smaller than the typical ca. You have saboteurs around you. Play with traditional rules or wacky new ones.

Comments

Excellent game of deduction, simple and logical rules, with part of tactics.

1 play An abstract (well, there is a painted on theme), quick-playing game of set-collection and tactical maneuvering, with some bluffing and deduction thrown into the mix as well.

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