Abstract Board Games

Abstract board games, sometimes referred to as "abstract strategy games", often test a player's planning, reasoning, and decision-making, usually in a one-on-one battle of skill. In the strictest sense, there is no "luck" in an abstract game -- players succeed by plotting their moves and trying to anticipate their opponents' moves. Many of the world's classic board games, including Checkers, Chess, Go, and Mancala, are abstract board games. Players love these old games for their simple rules, rich history, and endless challenge.

Other Abstract Board Games

Abacan
Don't let the simple appearance fool you. ABACAN is a fun new strategy game that uses simple rules to provide a depth of strategy that grows with the experience of the players. ABACAN is a variation of the nearly 3000 year old Chinese mathematical game of Nim. To play, players alternate turns sliding 1,2, or 3 beads on the same bar from one side of the game to the other. The winner is the player who forces their opponent to move the last bead. There is always a winner -- no ties, stalemates, or cat's games. Hand crafted from high quality hardwoods, ABACAN is pretty enough to be left out on the coffee table or bookshelf to be played again and again. Great gift item!
Abalone
In Abalone, you are literally trying to push your opponent over the edge! You'll face off against your opponent moving one, two, or three marbles at once. The more marbles you have in a column, the more weight you'll have to move a lighter column. You can move them one step in line or one step sideways. Tip a marble over the side-lines to get ahead. As you push the shining line of marbles, tipping your opponent's color over the edge one final time, you know you've won at Abalone! Abalone has sold over 4,000,000 copies and was the Mensa Select award winner in 1990.
Arimaa
Arimaa is one of the deepest 2-player strategy games ever invented, but it's also one of the most intuitively simple. In just the first ten moves of Arimaa there are more possible games than there are atoms in our universe. No two games of Arimaa are ever the same. There is much to learn and discover about this intuitively simple, yet intellectually challenging game. While it is easy enough for kids to learn and enjoy, you will find that it is also a very deep game that can take a lifetime to master. Selected as a 'Games 100' Best Abstract Strategy Game.
Army Of Frogs
From the designer of the Mensa Select Award winning 'Hive' game comes Army of Frogs. This family-friendly abstract strategy game uses different colored hexagonal shaped Frog stones that are connected to one another to form an amphibian island. As players try to link their frog stones, the shape and size of the island constantly changes. The goal is to build your Army Of Frogs into one large group through clever maneuvering and strategic placement of both yours and your opponents stones. Be the first to connect all of your own stones with a minimum of seven to win Army Of Frogs!
Blockers
A minute of rules, then a lifetime of fun for the whole family. See the numbers, letters and symbols? You have one tile for each type of space on the board. Play your tiles strategically to form the fewest clusters of your color on the board AND to block and capture your rivals. Rules include different ways to play as well as tips on strategies.
Callisto
Once in a while a board game arrives that combines complete simplicity with brilliant game design. Welcome to Callisto, a seriously satisfying and undeniably simple game to learn but it's a game that uses strategic skills and a little luck to master. The object of the game is to be the player who successfully places the most tiles on the board; tiles must always be placed next to another tile of the same color. While placing your tiles you not only want to cover the most ground so you gain points, but you'll want to block the others from doing so too!
Cambio
The objective is to be the first to form a line of 5 of your own symbol. This is achieved by placing a cube at the end of a line and pushing it into place, which has the effect of changing the position of not 1 piece, but 5.
Cat and Mouse
Cat & Mouse is a simple game of luck that can be played with 2-6 players. The object of the game is to be the first player to get their marble to the Finish hole in the center of the board while following the track. At the same time, the player is trying to knock off any player that is in his way. While in the lead, the other players are chasing the leader from the board. The lead marble is the Mouse and all other players are the Cats. the Cats are chasing the Mouse. More players equal more activity and fun!
Cathedral
Imagine yourself living during Medieval Times, the period of history referred to as the Middle Ages. The Roman Empire had recently collapsed and the Renaissance era had not yet begun. Medieval towns cropped up throughout Western Europe. The Cathedral, a place of sanctuary and worship, was the focal point of the city and located in the center of town. Shops and various trading stores surrounded the Cathedral, while residents and shop keepers lived within the stone walls which formed the town boundary. What went on within these walls was dictated by rich and powerful landowners. In the game of Cathedral, you are such a landowner. The playing board represents the site of the walled city. Two sets of playing pieces symbolize both the buildings and the two opposing forces who battle to gain control by strategically positioning their building pieces back on the board. In this award-winning game of competition and rivalry, victory goes to the player who is best at blocking and out-maneuvering their opponent.
Chaos
You never know what's going to happen in this easy to learn game of strategy. Easy to learn, yet challenging to master. Based on the sand pile chaos theory, this strategic game requires players to think several moves ahead to retain control of where game pieces may fall. Play boldly and you'll prevail, but be careful...your most skillful scheme can, by you opponent's cunning move, instantly turn to utter chaos. Take turns stacking discs on the square wooden board; any stack with four discs is redistributed in all four directions around it -- often resulting in chaos! Beautifully crafted from wood. Major FUN award winner!
Cityscape
Build to make your view of the city match your aspirations. Secretly plan the shape of this city from its primary view on your side. Then take turns building it to meet your plan, and/or thwart your opponent. This is a game of correctly anticipating other players' hidden agendas. A quick family game to play over and over again. It challenges you to achieve your secret goals and second-guess your opponent's actions, as you build competing views of a city.
City Square Off
Go head-to-head against your opponent in this tactical game of city planning. Build your city without going over the limits and consider yourself the master planner!
Cirkis
CirKis is a fascinating abstract strategy game for the whole family. Two to four players take turns placing one of their nine differently shaped pieces on the beveled game board next to the last piece played. The aim is to complete Circles and Stars to score points. CirKis is very easy to learn as there is only one rule: Each new piece must touch the last piece played. That's it! Although CirKis is quickly learned, it soon becomes apparent that strategic thinking is crucial to scoring high, making each game more rich and diverse than the next as players evolve their offensive and defensive strategies. Be the first player to score 40 points to win the game!
ColorFever
ColorFever is a point-scoring game combining a perfect blend of strategy and chance. You draw tiles, roll the dice, and place your tiles accordingly. You score by building strings of tiles horizontally, vertically and diagonally. With every turn comes the chance to draw special tiles that give you extraordinary action! Add in the several additional ways to score using special tiles that add extra action and you are set for a heated game of action. Once you've played color fever, you'll want to play it again and again!
Columns
This two-player stacking game's simple principle hides it's true nature. You'll need a pile of strategy to win it! Two colors of playing pieces (light for one player, dark for the other), come in two types: disk-shaped "roundels," which you can use to score, and square "blockers" which you use to... yep, block. Confounding, rewarding and completely different, it's a unique pastime you'll love. Crafted in quality wood, it also makes a sophisticated statement. For 2 players.
CoverUp
A great two-player strategy game! Cover Up takes seconds to learn and minutes to play. Cover your opponent's options, while uncovering your plan to win. Four in a row wins the game! Reach new levels with Cover Up!
CrossWise
CrossWise is an abstract strategy game for 2 players or teams that will have you thinking in all directions. Players earn points by matching three or more Shape Tiles across the rows while their opponents do the same in columns. You'll have to think ahead because every tile you place also scores points for your opponent! Plan ahead for a double play, shift shapes to block your opponent, and trade tiles to earn big points. Watch out though - Action tiles let players move tiles unexpectedly! The game is over as soon as the last open space on the board has been filled with a tile. The player or team with the most points wins CrossWise.
Da Vinci's Challenge
Da Vinci's Challenge is the ancient game of secret symbols! This classic strategy game contains mysteries as old as the pyramids. The pattern of circles on the game board forms the ancient symbol called the Flower of Life, inscribed on Pyramid walls by the Egyptians over 6,000 years ago and studied in depth by Leonardo Da Vinci. The timeless symbol that has inspired artists and thinkers over the ages creates a playing surface that is both beautiful and intriguing. Players take turns placing game pieces on the board to form 9 different patterns. The more complex the pattern, the higher the point value. The player who scores the most points in the end wins!
Dragon Face
Prepare yourself for an epic battle with Dragon Face! The objective of this game is to force your opponent's Emperor to do an about-face. An intriguing blend of chess, checkers and Othello, Dragon Face is sure to become a new classic strategy game. The world is divided into 2 spheres with each vying to conquer the other by making them do an "about-face". The end goal is to capture the Emperor by locking it in. When you want a great strategy game to challenge the imagination, Dragon Face is it!
Dvonn
DVONN is a challenging stacking game with very simple rules. It is played with 3 red DVONN pieces, 23 white pieces, and 23 black pieces. The players must try to control as many pieces as possible by building stacks, preferably by jumping on top of their opponent's pieces. While doing so, pieces and stacks must remain linked to the red DVONN pieces. If not, they are out of the game! When no more moves can be made, each player puts their stacks on top of each other. The player with the highest stack wins the game!
Eternas
Eternas is a fun new 3-dimensional strategy game of four in a row. The rules and concepts are simple enough to appeal to kids from 6 to 96 yeas of age. But, don't let the simplicity fool you. While Eternas is quick and easy to learn, there is a depth of strategy that will keep you thinking. Eternas is a four-in-a-row style game in which the first player to place four bead of their color in a row, either vertically, horizontally or diagonally, wins the game. Conceived around the shape of the circle (the symbol for eternity) Eternas was designed for borderless play.
Exago
With simple and straightforward rules, Exago is a fascinating family game. Each player starts out with 6 colored tiles (in 2 player games, each player gets 12 tiles). To win, you just need to be the first to place four of your hexagonal tiles on the grid in a straight line. Easy enough. But the challenge and strategy of good offensive and defensive tile placement becomes extremely obvious after just the first game. Each move requires planning for anticipated future moves such as in chess and other strategy games. Simply put, Exago is an fun and addictive game that everybody will want to play again and again!
5ive Straight - The Pegboard Strategy Game
It's your move and the possibilities are endless. Do you block your opponent? Make a run for 5ive Straight? Or draw a card and risk losing your edge? Play a card and place a ped on the board -- with as few as one or as many as 100 possible choices, where your move is up to you. The first one with five pegs in a row is the winner. Whether playing with 2, 3, or teams of players, 5ive Straight will keep you on your toes as you try to outsmart your opponent.
Fits
Fits is basically multi-player board game version of the popular video game Tetris. One to four players try to skillfully fill in the spaces using shapes that are made up of three, four, or five blocks. Cards are drawn that tell the players which piece to use next. They then slide the piece down the inclined ramp to try to arrange the differently shaped tiles in the best way possible in order to obtain the most points. After four rounds, all points from the previous rounds are added up and the player with the most points wins! Fits is a fun family game that will puts everyone's spatial reasoning to the test.
Hexover
Hexover is a fun and fast-moving new strategy game of reversing momentum. Hexover takes a new twist on play pattern with roots dating back to England is the 19th century. The play pattern, which consists of trapping and flipping opponents disks, is familiar to people worldwide who have played Reversi or Othello. Hexover is a game of planning, positioning and rich strategy. The obvious move, may not be the best! The rules have been drafted so that there is always a winner, no ties, stalemates, or cat's games. Hand crafted from high quality hardwoods, Hexover is pretty enough to be left out on the coffee table or bookshelf to be played again and again.
Ingenious
Ingenious is an amazing game for one to four brains! Are you ingenious? You are when playing this extraordinary game! Combining fun game-play, great components, and real strategy, Ingenious will have you quickly addicted. Developed by acclaimed game designer Reiner Kniza, this game features simple rules, quick playing time, and a clever scoring system that makes this one game you won't want to miss. Ingenious is a Mensa Mind Game of the Year Winner for 2005.
Isolate
In Isolate players can experience the strategy of separation! Grab your color tiles, arrange them on the game board, and isolate your tiles first to win! Simple to learn, but challenging enough for experienced competitors. Isolate is perfect for the entire family! Contents of Isolate: 16 tiles, Gameboard, Instructions.
Kabaleo
Be discreet and secretly win! Each players is the only person to know which color is their own and should try as discreetly as possible to ensure that this is the majority color across the playing board. Players take turn placing a colored pyramid on the board. These form piles -- and the color of the pile is determined by the piece at the top. If a player places a piece on top of a pyramid of the same color, they cancel each other out and are removed from the game. When all pieces have been played, the player whose color holds the majority on the board wins the game!
Khet Laser Strategy Game
Khet is the game that combines lasers with classic strategy! Players alternate turns moving Egyptian-themed pieces having two, one or no mirrored surfaces. All four types of pieces can either move one square forward, back, left, right, or diagonal, or can stay in the same square and rotate by a quarter twist. Each turn ends by firing one of the lasers built into the board. The laser beam bounces from mirror to mirror, and if the beam strikes a non-mirrored surface on any piece it is immediately removed from play. The ultimate goal is to illuminate your opponent's pharaoh, while shielding your own from harm! Batteries are included.
Knock Your Blocks Off
Stack 'em up... Knock 'em down! First, race to build a structure by matching up the patterns on your blocks. Then use the demolition die to knock down your opponent's crowns! Depending on what you roll, you may get to attack with an avalanche of boulders, a wall-smashing ogre, or even a fire-breathing dragon! Rack up the most victory points and crown yourself king of the block!
Miracle Five
Similar to Othello and Connect Four, the object of Miracle Five is to be the first player to get 5 of their pieces in a row in any direction in order to win the game. The game pieces are blank on one side and have a special symbol on the other. Blank pieces can only move up, down, left, or right until they have been flipped over to reveal the special symbol side after they have been moved once during the course of the game. Pieces with revealed symbols can now move in any direction available. The first player to get five in a row wins the game. Easy to learn and fun to play, Miracle Five is a unique abstract strategy game for players ages 6 and up.
MixUp
A great two-player strategy game! Mix Up takes seconds to learn and minutes to play. Get four in a row - one player goes for shapes, the other for colors. Upset your opponent's plan, while shaping your strategy to win. Ages 8 to adult. 2 players. 15-20 minutes per game. Molded plastic game board with parts storage.
Multiplayer Pentago
Pentago is a fast and fun strategy game that is both simple and sophisticated at the same time! The object of the game is to create a row of five marbles, in any direction. But the mind twisting part is that you will also twist one of the nine game blocks as part of your move. This causes the game board to constantly change, making for a perpetually challenging game experience, both for beginners and masters alike! Multiplayer Pentago allows for 2, 3, or 4 players.
Nine Men's Morris
Nine Men's Morris (also known as Mill) has been played for some 3,000 years. The pattern of the board is found twice, as graffiti, in the 1300 BC Egyptian temple, the Ramesseum in Egypt. Each player has nine pieces which move between the twenty-four intersections of three interlocking squares, and the object is to strategically reduce your opponent down to only two marbles. This version of Nine Men's Morris includes a handsome solid oak board (7 1/2" by 7 1/2"), glass marbles, and a drawstring bag to store the marbles when not in use.
Paradux
The aim of the game is to line up 4 of your balls in a row. But hold on a minute! A player cannot move a ball individually or with a ball of their own color. Moves MUST be made with an adjoining ball of their opponent's! The two balls are then moved together as a single unit, in any direction. Simple rules, intricate play.
Pathagon
Pathagon is an exciting, ever-changing new strategy game of building paths. While Pathagon is quick and easy to learn, there is a depth of strategy that will keep you on your toes. Players take turns placing their wooden game pieces on the board in an attempt to build a path from one side of the game board to the other. There is a trapping move that allows a player to trap and remove one of their opponents game pieces from the board. The first player to complete the path wins. Sounds simple, doesn't it? The catch is that the two paths cross. Every move has an offensive and defensive consideration. Pathagon is simple enough to be played by children, strategic enough to engage a true gamer.
Pentago
Pentago is a fast and fun strategy game that is both simple and sophisticated at the same time! The object of the game is to create a row of five marbles, in any direction. But the mind twisting part is that you will also twist one of the four game blocks as part of your move. This causes the game board to constantly change, making for a perpetually challenging game experience, both for beginners and masters alike! The Pentago board measures approximately 5 3/4" by 5 3/4".
Pillars of Plato
Pillars of Plato is a great two player strategy game! It is easy to learn but hard to master. Start with all the pieces in the reservoirs and the poles clear. Players take turns placing one piece at a time on a pole, trying to line up four in a row of their own color. The line can be diagonal, horizontal or vertical. Four in a row wins the game! This lovely hardwood game would be at home on your coffee table or your desk.
Pixel
Pixel is an abstract strategy game where players try to get three in a row to win. Each player chooses a color and places a piece in the center of the game board then the sliders are lined up with the first players piece in the intersection. One slider is moved to create a new position for the intersection and you put your piece in that spot. Players then take turns moving only one of the sliders and places their pieces in the newly created intersections. If you manage to not set up your opponents' next move and get three in a row -- vertically, horizontally, or diagonally -- you win! A fun, cross-action game of strategy for the whole family.
Poison Pot
In this 2 or 3 player game, the objective, when the 36 Cauldrons have finally finished being shuffled around, is that you end with the largest connected group. But beware! Even one of the group finishing adjacent to the Poison Pot nullifies the whole group.
Pylos
In Pylos each player has fifteen wood balls and has a chance at placing their last ball at the top of the pyramid. But their can only be one winner in Pylos. Skillful moves will determine if the winner is you! Pylos has won the Mensa's Top Five Best Games award, and the Parent's Choice Gold award among others.
Quadefy
Quadefy is a fast playing new strategy game played in three dimensions. Easy to learn and quick to play, Quadefy uses visual spatial skills and strategies that will keep you on your toes. When playing Quadefy, you have to think a little bit strategist and a little bit puzzle builder. Players take turns stacking their game pieces on the base, each attempting to keep their entire game piece in bounds. In bounds means that the piece must be completely over the game base and no more than four cubes high. The first player to force their opponent to have to play out of bounds, wins. Every move is both offensive and defensive, making Quadefy very fun to play.
Quadtria
Shift the Spheres to Form a Triangle in the Ruins of the Pyramids. A fun and easy to learn game in which a winning triangle pattern is formed by moving balls along passages under the Great Pyramids. Quadtria is a casual, easily understood, yet compelling game, where strategy shifts like desert sand and a watchful initiative is essential.
Quoridor
Quoridor is an award winning strategy game for two to four players! Move your wooden pawn across the board to the opposite side, as your opponent puts up wooden fence pieces, blocking your path. Can you get your pawn across and block your opponent from doing the same? The path is different each time you play!
Quixo
Quixo is a simple but not simplistic game, whose rules can be learned in just thirty seconds. Anyone can play! Line up 5 cubes in a row, pushing your lines of cubes horizontally or vertically. This is one of the few strategic games that can be played by 2 or 4 players (in teams). Quixo plays like a very advanced version of Tic Tac Toe where one tries to get five in a row. The game can be learned in a few minutes and moves along quickly.
Qwirkle
Combining tactical maneuvers and well-planned strategy, Qwirkle is a game that has players mixing and matching colors and shapes to score and win. The game consists of 108 thick wooden blocks with six shapes in six colors. Players score points by building lines that share a common attribute - either a color or a shape. Although the game is quickly learned, it soon becomes apparent that strategic thinking is crucial to scoring high. The challenge of Qwirkle is logical and clear enough to engage kids but complex enough to appeal to adult competitors. The player with the highest score after all of the tiles are placed wins the game!
Qwirkle Cubes
Qwirkle Cubes is a twist on the award winning game of Qwirkle. As in Qwirkel, players try to score points by building lines that share a common attribute - either a color or a shape. In Qwirkle Cubes however, players have more control over their hands because they can roll and re-roll their dice to try to get the shapes they need! Everyone can see what is in each others hands so players' offensive and defensive planning will change constantly. When you create a line, you score points for each cube in that line. If you add to an existing line, you score points for all cubes in that line as well. Complete a line of six cubes to make a Qwirkle and score six bonus points! The player with the highest score when all the cubes are used up wins the game.
Rhumb Line
Rhumb Line is a strategic nautical game for two pirates played on a compass rose! Players place markers at coordinates to create a radius, an arc, or a spiral to navigate their position and block their opponent. By definition, a rhumb line is the shortest distance between two points on a compass appearing straight on a chart but actually curved due to the shape of the Earth. The Rhumb Line game includes 1100 years of nautical history covering Fluer De Lis, mercator charts, sailing routes from Europe to America and sailors pastimes during ocean voyages. Includes polished stone playing pieces, playing mat, drawstring bag, rules and history of the game.
Ringgz
Surround your opponents to win the most territories in Ringgz! In this exciting strategy game, players challenge each other to win the most territories using colorful wooden rings. Find the right balance between gaining majorities and controlling your opponents to capture victory. Fast paced and addictive, this beautifully crafted game will be sure to please the whole family! Includes 1 wooden playing board, 1 starting base, 48 wooden rings, 12 wooden bases, and illustrated rules.
Rolit
Rolit has ingeniously simple rules making it a great game for the whole family to play. The object is to block your opponents' playing pieces and capture them by rolling their colors to your own. The player with the most playing pieces showing their color at the end of the game wins! Engaging Othello style fun for 2 to 4 players aged 7 and up.
Rush Hour - Ultimate Collector's Edition
This coffee table version of the classic Rush Hour game is packed with 155 challenges spanning five levels: Beginner to Grand Master. It is complete with a raised game board, parking spaces for the cars and trucks, a billboard to hold the challenge being played, a storage drawer for all the challenges and an exit ramp! The sleek, new look keeps players solving challenge after challenge in style! Escape! That's the goal. Rush Hour is a premier sliding block puzzle designed to challenge your sequential-thinking skills (and perhaps your traffic-officer aspirations as well)!
Set Cubed
Set Cubed offers the familiar game play and look of Set the card game in a dice format. Players try to connect their dice with those already on the game board to build SETs of like shapes, colors, or symbols. Bonus points on the board allow you to rack up points and Wild dice help you make SETs where they might otherwise not be possible. The more SETs you make up, down, and across the board, the higher you score!
Six
Discover Six, an elegant and subtle game of shape and strategy where the goal is to be the first to form one of three winning shapes with your pieces. Plan ahead your winning moves while keeping a keen eye on your opponent as defeat is often dealt by surprise. Play one-on-one or in teams. Great for travel!
Skybridge
The stakes are high with Skybridge! With simple rules and quick games, you will want to play this 3-D strategy game again and again! Players take turns using the wooden pieces to construct their buildings higher and higher. All you have to do is be the best builder to win Skybridge! Includes wooden gameboard, 44 wooden playing pieces, and complete game rules.
Spectrangle
What's your angle of attack? In Spectrangle, you angle for the best spot on the board in this fast-paced game of skills and numbers. Strategically place your game pieces where they will earn you the most points . . . while making it harder for your opponents to place their pieces. The more sides you match, the more you mulitply your score. Score the most points to win the game!
Spin & Trap
Spin & Trap is a unique strategy game where both offensive and defensive strategies are required for victory. On their turn, players try to trap one of the three green marbles on the game board so that it is surrounded by their colored marbles by using either the 3-marble rotator or the 6-marble rotator. The first player to successfully trap and capture two green marbles wins.
Spy Wire
In Spy Wire, a ticking time bomb is seconds away from exploding and you've got to diffuse it before it blows! You'll need to think quick, and move your fingers fast to find the hidden parts to your opponent's bomb. Sliding the circuit-board tiles in all directions to create virtual connections will allow you to probe his devious device. Decoys are everywhere. But if you can manage to solve your opponent's puzzle and dismantle his bomb, you win!
Stratum
Strategy skills get stepped up a notch once space runs out on the playing board and the game continues on top of the previously played pieces! Then each player tries to cover up their opponent's pieces, for in the end, it is the more exposed player who comes out the winner!
Tara: Ireland's Royal Board Game
Tara is a collection of three multi-award winning board games in the ancient legends of Ireland's Celtic heritage and royal past. The three games include: Sacred Hill, Poisoned Chalice, and High Kings of Tara. Get your head around this, take control of the enemy and watch them squirm! Overall, it is arguably the most impressive set of abstract variants ever developed. The game itself is very easy to learn, thanks to the clear and concise rule book and illustrations.
Tayu
This strategy game was inspired from a celebrated Chinese hero who engineered a series of waterways, thus saving his nation from flooding. Now you must form as many waterways as possible from one side of the board to the next. Your opponent(s) will strive to do the same, while simultaneously diverting yours, thus sabotaging your best laid plans. The player who completes the most channels to his/her side of the board, wins!
Telepathy
Unlock the power of your mind with Telepathy. This abstract strategy/puzzle-solving game combines deduction, logic, intuition, and more as you go head to head with the other players to see who can be the first to guess their opponent's secret square. Each Telepathy game board has nine colors and nine symbols spread throughout the eighteen rows and columns. On each turn your objective is to find out information about your opponent's secret square by making a guess and recording the response. Be the first player to determine your opponent's secret square to win Telepathy! If you like the games Sudoku, Mastermind, or Battleship, then you'll love Telepathy.
Terra Nova
Players lead nations in this new world where the most valuable resource is the land itself. The clever system of movement and boundary-building gives you the tools you need. However, it is your strategic vision which will ultimately decide whether or not you will rule Terra Nova. Contains game board, 88 border stones, 44 pioneer playing pieces, and 4 scoring counters. For 2-4 players. Ages 13 and up.
Tic-Tac-Ku
If you love new twists on old classics, if you love games of strategy-planning and if you love controlling where your opponent can play... you will love Tic-Tac-Ku! It is a great and new adaptation of the old classic Tic Tac Toe! Tic-Tac-Ku is the durable wooden game that is full of strategy that really makes you use your marbles and much more! Tic-Tac-Ku is played on square board with nine 3 x 3 square playing zones. Each player controls where the other player must play. Tic-Tac-Ku involves a lot of skill and strategy in order to win.
Trango
This simple and extremely exciting pattern recognition strategy game will have you outwit and trick your opponents with every move! Your goal is to build out as many geometric patterns to score points. But watch out, your opponents may try to block you to make their own Trangos, so place your pieces wisely, as the player with the most points, wins!
Trappex
Playing Trappex is little bit like reuniting with an old friend. While it is comforting rekindling childhood memories with the time tested Dots and Boxes play pattern, there is still something new and different how the game has grown up in the meantime. Even though Trappex is quick and easy to learn, there is a depth of strategy that will keep you alert from your first move till your last. To play, players take turns placing their wooden wall pieces on the board, attempting to complete squares while preventing their opponent from doing the same. The player with the most completed squares at the end of the game wins. Trappex is simple enough to be played by children, strategic enough to engage a true gamer.
Trapture
Trapture is the game of connect, trap, and capture! Squiggle your way to victory with this tactical strategy game of connect and capture. Starting from the edges of the board, players take turns placing their Squiggles game pieces. Players crate Squiggle highways around the board, capturing pegs along the way. Surround a peg on at least four sides, and it's yours! Be tactical - a well-planned move can even capture two pegs at once. The player who 'traptures' the most pegs wins!
Traverse
This classic strategy game has something for everyone, from beginners to advanced players, making it the perfect family game. Traverse combines the best features of chess and Chinese checkers. The four unique game pieces, circle, square, triangle, and diamond, each move in their own special way. So easy to learn that players will be jumping, sliding, and maneuvering their way around the board in no time. Includes game board and 32 game pieces. For 2 to 4 players. Major FUN award winner!
Tylz!
Tylz! (rhymes with "smiles") is a magnetic color-matching and spatial relations puzzle game that comes with 80 all-different "L"-shaped tiles. The object is to select a tile from your rack and place it on the board such that it matches as many existing neighboring colors as possible. As the game progresses the board becomes a mosaic of color with ever-greater challenges and ever greater opportunities to score.
TZAAR
TZAAR is a game about making choices. Both players have 30 pieces, divided in three types: 6 Tzaars, 9 Tzarras and 15 Totts. The 3 types of pieces form a trinity: they cannot exist without each other. The aim is either to make the opponent run out of one of the three types of pieces or to put him in a position in which he cannot capture anymore. The tricky question the players will have to ask themselves on each of their turns is: "Shall I make myself stronger or my opponent weaker?" Meaning: will you capture an opponent's piece and make him weaker, or will you jump on top of one of your own pieces and make yourself stronger? If you choose to jump on top of your own pieces too often, you will probably leave your opponent with too many pieces on the board. On the other hand, if you capture too often, you may end up with pieces that are not strong enough at the end of the game. What to do? Up to you to decide!
YINSH
YINSH is a tempestuous game! The players each start with 5 rings on the board. Every time a ring is moved, it leaves a marker behind. Markers are white on one side and black on the other. When markers are jumped over by a ring, they must be flipped, so their color is constantly changing. The players must try to form a row of 5 markers with their own color face up. If a player succeeds in doing so, he removes one of his rings as an indication that he has formed such a row. The first player to remove 3 of his rings wins the game. In other words, each row you make brings you closer to victory -- but also makes you weaker, because you have one less ring to play with. Very tricky!
Zertz
Zertz is played with 5 white, 7 gray and 9 black marbles and 37 round tiles. The tiles are used to assemble the board; the marbles are in a pool. Each turn you must place one marble on the board and then remove a free tile. The aim is to capture 3 white, 4 gray, 5 black marbles or 2 marbles of each color. To capture you must jump with a marble over another marble. It sounds easy, but both players play with the same marbles and the board gets smaller with every move. Thus, the players are forced toward a situation where every move is a crucial one... when you create a trap for your opponent at the wrong moment, you may find yourself caught in the trap.