PÜNCT, the fifth released game by design in project GIPF, is a connection game.
The goal is to connect two opposite sides of the board. A player's turn consists of either bringing a new piece into play or moving one already on the board.
This game is part of project GIPF.
In Niya, each player tries to arrange her tokens to gain the favor of the emperor. Alternatively, you can prevent your rival from placing a token in the Imperial garden, showing that you have more control than your opponent.
To set up the game, shuffle the 16 tiles and arrange them in a 4x4 square; each tile shows one of four types of vegetation (maple, cherry, pine or iris) and one of four types of poetic symbols (rising sun, bird, rain or tanzaku - the small pieces of paper on which people sometimes write wishes).
The starting player removes one tile on the border of the square, sets this tile aside, then places one of her tokens in this space. The opponent must then do the same thing, but can choose from only those tiles that depict the same type of vegetation or poetic symbol shown on the tile first set aside. Play continues, with each set-aside tile determining where the next player can go until:
A player forms a line with four of her tokens in any direction,
A player forms a 2x2 square with four of her tokens, or
A player chooses a tile which doesn't allow her opponent to place a token.
In any of these cases, the player has won the game. A match can be a single game, a "best of three" series, or a point-based match, with the winner of a game earning as many points as the number of tiles remaining in the grid when she wins; in this case, the player who first collects ten points wins the match.
Knight's Domain is played with similar rules to chess. Each side has only three types of pieces, 8 Knights, 3 pawns, and 1 King. The object is to Checkmate your opponents King. The King is restricted to movement within a 6 space area called the "King's Vale" at the rear of his board.
Game components as published include:
1 9x8 board with "Vale" area clearly marked
2 kings
16 Knights
6 pawns
instructions.
Itinerary is a game themed around worldwide air travel. The board is divided into six continents, with six special, low value spaces around the edge of the board which don't belong to any continent. Each plane can go on to two continents, plus the low value spaces. Players roll to move around the world, and must land by exact count, but the nature of the board often makes it possible to reach a desired space with multiple different rolls. To win, players must be the first to collect the required number of points in destinations.
This includes three expansions for GIPF.
Contents:
6 YINSH-potentials for each player
6 PÜNCT-potentials for each player
3 extra basic pieces for each player
See the project GIPF wiki page for more details on the potentials' powers.
The YINSH-potential can slide off its piece, any number of empty spots, for sneaky deployment. The PÜNCT-potential can land atop certain other pieces (different ones than the DVONN-potential), changing their color, or possibly introducing more GIPF-pieces mid-game!
GIPF Set 3 contains 6 white and 6 black YINSH-potentials, 6 white and 6 black PÜNCT-potentials, and 3 white and 3 black extra basic pieces to play "Ultimate GIPF". For the very brave amongst players: that is GIPF with 21 basic pieces and all 5 different kinds of potentials.
This is probably the last part of Project GIPF - after all those years players can combine all games :)
First product of cooperation of Kris Burm with company SMART.