The abstract strategy game Quoridor is surprisingly deep for its simple rules. The object of the game is to advance your pawn to the opposite edge of the board. On your turn you may either move your pawn or place a wall. You may hinder your opponent with wall placement, but not completely block him off. Meanwhile, he is trying to do the same to you. The first pawn to reach the opposite side wins.
Reimplements:
Pinko Pallino
Reimplemented by:
Quoridor Kid
There's hustle and bustle at Istanbul's grand bazaar as merchants and their assistants rush through the narrow alleys in their attempt to be more successful than their competitors. Everything must be well organized: wheelbarrows must be filled with goods at the warehouses, then swiftly transported by the assistants to various destinations. Your goal? Be the first merchant to collect a certain number of rubies.
In Istanbul, you lead a group of one merchant and four assistants through 16 locations in the bazaar. At each such location, you can carry out a specific action. The challenge, though, is that to take an action, you must move your merchant and an assistant there, then leave the assistant behind (to handle all the details while you focus on larger matters). If you want to use that assistant again later, your merchant must return to that location to pick him up. Thus, you must plan ahead carefully to avoid being left with no assistants and thus unable to do anything...
In more detail, on a turn you move your merchant and his retinue of assistants one or two steps through the bazaar, either leave an assistant at that location or collect an assistant left earlier, then perform the action. If you meet other merchants or certain individuals at the location, you might be able to take a small extra action. Possible actions include:
Paying to increase your wheelbarrow capacity, which starts the game with a capacity of only two for each good.
Filling your wheelbarrow with a specified good to its limit.
Acquiring a special ability, and the earlier you come, the easier they are to collect.
Buying rubies or trading goods for rubies.
Selling special combinations of goods to make the money you need to do everything else.
When a merchant has collected five rubies in his wheelbarrow, players complete that round, then the game ends. If this player is the only one who's reached this goal, he wins immediately; otherwise ties are broken by money in hand.
Each player represents the leadership of a 17th century Scottish clan looking to expand its territory and its wealth. The success of your clan depends on your ability to make the correct decision at the opportune time, be it by establishing a new pasture for your livestock, growing grain for the production of whisky, selling your goods on the various markets, or investing in the cultivation of special places such as lochs and castles.
Glen More offers a unique turn mechanism. Players take territory tiles from a rondell. Picking a tile has not only influence on the actions you get by the surrounding tiles in your territory, it also determines when you'll have your next turn (and how many turns you will have in the game). But having a lot of turns is not always the best strategy for a successful chieftain.
Glen More is 6 in the Alea medium box series, and is rated a 4 on the alea complexity level.
Note: This game is available by request only and requires having a membership to play.
See game associate for details.
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.
This includes two expansions for GIPF and one for ZÈRTZ.
Contents:
6 DVONN-potentials for each player
6 ZÈRTZ-potentials for each player
12 ZÈRTZ rings
See the project GIPF wiki page for more details on the potentials' powers.
This expansion can integrate DVONN and ZÈRTZ with the original GIPF game. Additionally, it contains ring pieces to extend the ZÈRTZ board into new configurations.
The ZÈRTZ-potential has the power to jump other pieces. The DVONN-potential has the power to land on top of other pieces, changing their color.
This is part of project GIPF.