Game-it-Yourself! -- New Games

As of 01/20/08

[Conversion] - A funky board game that uses dice as game pieces. Roll a die, place it on the board. If it’s higher than your opponent’s adjacent dice, they’re converted into your dice. Whoever has the highest total results by the time the board is filled is the winner.
[Pomota] - A board game abstraction of tactics-genre video games combining elements of Tactics Arena Online and Greg Stolze’s NoCoPo -- factions from various aspects of pop culture, from B-movies to comics to anime, battle each other for no good reason at all.
[Shannon] - An elegant abstract game inspired by Sudoku and Triple Triad, a CCG mini-game in Final Fantasy 8 -- you place dice on a chess board, converting your opponent’s dice to your color hoping to score the most points at the end of the game.
[Tris] - It’s a little bit Connect 4 and a little bit Tetris, and a whole lot of abstract strategy board game. Gadzooks!

As of 01/13/08

[Bugs!] - An easy to play miniatures game where the bugs are big with an attitude and it's your job to turn them into pink mist before they slice and dice you. Man against bug at the personal level.
[Chain Reaction] - Whether you're patrolling the front lines, leading a gang of survivors in a "dark future" Wasteland, or rooting out Zombies, yes, Zombies, Chain Reaction provides the rules. Any combat that involves modern weapons can now be recreated in a realistic manner.
[Druid's Duel] - You’re a druid competing with other druids in a shape changing contest to display your wits and prowess. The druid who best adapts to the tactics of his or her opponents becomes the new head of the Circle.
[Edgehill] - This is an easy, introductory game on the first battle of the English Civil War. Easy to understand and fast playable (less than an hour), using a chit drawing leader activation procedure that makes the game different each time you play it.
[Lock ‘n Load: Band of Heroes] - A wargame system that features "more game and less guff" -- set in the hedgerows of Normandy. Although a squad-based game, single men also make a difference - Leaders, heroes, medics, and even chaplains inspire their men; leading them to feats of heroic bravery.
[Malaya: V-Mail Postcard Game #1] - This 5x8 inch postcard game recreates the Japanese invasion of Malaya -- Can you, as the British commander, slow the Japanese advance? Or will the Japanese succeed in capturing Singapore?
[Payout!] - A “race to the end” board game where you race around the board collecting money. If you land on a vault with coins in it, you get the coins. If you land on a space without coins in it, you have to put coins in. When you get to the board's end, you get to sit in a vault and take all of the coins that go in it.
[Unternehmung 25: V-Mail Postcard Game #2] - The second V-Mail Postcard Game chronicles the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941. Can you, as the Germans, make a lightning-fast assault and capture Belgrade? As the Yugoslavs, can you derail the German timetable and buy time for the Allies to react? It's all up to you.

As of 11/24/07

[Dead of Night] - A game based on scenarios you might recognize from various zombie films. All the players are on the same side, all working together to survive, although the option to use other players as zombie bait while you grab all the guns and lock yourself in the cellar is there if you prefer.
[Deduce or Die!] - A deduction game in which the players are trying to find out who among them is a murderer. The actual murderer is as anxious as anyone else to determine the facts of the case, as that will allow him or her to pin the blame on someone else.
[Flying Swordsmen] - The Yin and Yang forests have gone mad. Their swordsmen are fighting to either convert or kill each other in the endless bamboo forest. Mind your head, here come Flying Swordsmen!
[Giant Freaking Worms!] - What better way to terraform a planet than using giant freaking worms to do it for you? They’re big, efficient and pretty dumb too.
[Leave No Man Behind] - This game takes advantage of Icehouse pyramids’ stacking ability to create a mix of Chinese checkers and macho “leave no man behind” wartime bravado.
[Loom] - A combination of Go stone placement and Embargo wall creation mechanics. You could call it Embar-go! Ha! Thank you, thank you. I’m here all week. Enjoy the veal.
[Polarity] - Using knights, rooks, and queens, push and pull stones on the board -- make lines of three or more and collect 10 stones before your opponent does.
[Procession] - Using pawns to create paths, be the first to guide your queen to the other side.
[Renaissance Man] - Are you and one to three other multi-talented friends as nifty as my friend Ben? Play Renaissance Man and find out!
[Xtropolopoquetl] - Four Olmec boulder statues are demanding sacrifices of pure elements. A pyramid of offerings has been placed between the statues. The statues are picky and will only eat elements they favor, so it is your job to feed the statues every last morsel of their favorite element.

As of 11/17/07

[Embargo] - A strategic game of territorial control and sharing. Move your pieces like chess rooks, trying to get to the opposite corner of the board. Uninterrupted lines between your pieces form imaginary walls that no pieces, not even your own, can cross. That’s it!
[Royal-er Game of Ur] - Inspired by the Royal Game of Ur, modified it to be played with more standard components and with a slightly different twist. The goal is to move all your dice to the ending space before your opponent, using your opponent's own dice as speed boosts along the way.
[Statements] - The Enron Game! You and your friends are part of a major corporate malfeasance scheme, together you build up lots of money, blow the whistle on each other and desperately try to get as many beans as possible before the feds catch wind of the cover-up.

As of 11/10/07

[Afriboria] - Miniatures rules to simulate warfare in colonial Africa using color-coded units and taking into consideration the vast difference in quality of weapons used by imperialists and natives.
[Cleave] - Slide your soldiers and capture enemies by custody or intervention in this 2-player abstract game.
[The Colonists of Natick] - Two players compete to colonize the newfound Island of Natick. The first colony to reach 7 victory points will dominate the island and the local music scene.
[Cripple Mr Onion] - Originally a fictional card game played by characters in Terry Pratchett's novels Wyrd Sisters and Witches Abroad, but made into a real game by Dr Andrew Millard and Prof. Terry Tao. The rules were approved by Pratchett himself.
[Dalapapa] - Each player has in hand two reversible dominoes. Each face of the domino is cut in 8 demy-folios - squares cut by their diagonal. By placing his domino, one tries to connect the most edges possible and to close colored surfaces.
[Dameo] - A checkers-like game that uses linear (rather than diagonal) movement, with the length of moves being based on the number of pieces on the line.
[Dogfaces in Space] - A simple individual-level battle set in the near future. Choose the size of your battle, then fight it out.
[A Master Stroke: The Battle for Meiktila, March 5-14, 1945] - Covering the battle in Burma that resulted in the final liberation of Mandalay and Rangoon. Not a fight in the impenetrable jungle, this was a mobile battle featuring tanks in the armor-friendly central plain of the country.
[S.A.B.O.T.] - Fast land battles meant for a big battlefield, with dozens of kinds of tanks, armored cars, grav tanks, walkers, and others.
[Shangzhou-Gold] - A cyberpunk-themed tile-laying and territory acquisition game with significant resource management, bidding, territory conflict, and negotiation elements.

As of 11/04/07

[Bridges and Boats] - A strategic war game in which the attacker is trying to get soldiers across a major river while the enemy tries to stop them.
[Capture] - A card game for 2 players. You must capture more cards than the other player by the end of one play through the deck.
[Citadels] - Each player is in a power struggle to control the most citadels. You fortify your citadels with walls, and guide your warriors in the field of battle to storm other citadels.
[Roots and Shoots] - An abstracted territory control game in which you are plants searching for delectable nutrients and hoping for rain before the others encroach.
[Royal Ace-assin] - Face cards are royal figureheads. Numbered cards are influential members of the royal court. The Aces are royal assassins. There are 3 "years" of play. At the end of the 3 years, the assassins are sent out.
[Shrine] - A playing card game in which the objective is to remove all cards from the other player’s Shrine. During the play of the game, players may add cards to their Shrine, remove cards from the other player’s Shrine and play special cards and combos to help them win the game.
[Surveyors of the Galaxy] - A game where players are flying spaceships in a scientific race to discover and survey the most star systems. After all players run out of fuel, the player who discovered the most systems wins.

As of 10/27/07

[Blood Diamonds] - A picepack game that pits west African warlords against one another for control of rich diamond fields. Your goal is to acquire as many diamonds as you can and sell them for the highest profits.
[By the Walls of Constantinople] - A game from the One Page Wars series. Four Byzantine galleys try to break through a large contingent of Ottoman vessels and get to the Golden Horn.
[Canadian Salad] - A card game in the Barbu family. Players play trick, trying not to get certain cards. Each round has different cards that you are trying to avoid (12 rounds in all.)
[Cascades] - A 2-player abstract game that models/abstracts the flow of water carving out a mountainside.
[Centre Rock] - Each player commands archers, pikemen, and swordsmen in pushing each other around, eliminating their enemies, and generally carrying on in an uncivilized fashion in the name of acquiring and defending The Rock.
[Chameleon] - Players place tiles to forms groups of three or four like-colored tiles to earn points. Use your chameleon wisely to earn more points, and watch out for your opponents wasps, or you'll lose points to the wasp’s owner!
[Charge at the Alamo] - A game portraying the Mexican assault on the Alamo. The Alamo Compound and six immediate approaches are depicted on a map that can be adequately printed on a single 8/5 x 11-inch sheet.
[ChessWar] - A strategic game for two players. It is meant to be played on standard chessboard with standard chess pieces -- it is NOT chess with dice and some extra rules! Instead, it is strategic game played with chess pieces.
[The Club] - You are a Night-club DJ under orders from the Club Manager to keep the clubbers happy. You must entice clubbers on to the Dancefloor (from the Bar Area), then, as the night progresses, on to the Stage.
[Smallville: The Board Game] - Agents of the evil Kryptonian Zod have arrived on Earth and have disguised themselves as Clark Kent -- they want to convince Clark Kent’s friends and family that THEY are the real Clark so that they can banish the real Clark. With him gone, the Earth will be theirs.

As of 10/06/07

[Air Traffic Controller] - A logic based game in which you must manage an airport. Each turn you can make one command to an aircraft. Each aircraft then follows this command on the tarmac.
[Airborne!] - The rules and OPFOR from Gators!, but in this game, instead of the USMC, the 82nd Airborne drops in for a visit.
[Chou Chèv' Loup] - The wolves eat the goats. The goats eat the cabbage. So far so good. The only problem is that wolves don't like to share, and nor do the goats. Will the cabbage manage to turn things in its favor?
[Dédales] - Find a way for Icarus (the yellow piece) to reach one of the 2 Labyrinth exits in as few moves as possible.
[Katmandou] - The players are men of influence, who direct archaeologists, and other special characters, in order to accumulate a maximum of fame, as represented by points, by searching archeological sites in the valley of Katmandou.
[LOST: The Card Game] - Based on the hit ABC TV show LOST, you are one of the survivors of the ill-fated Oceanic flight 815 which crash-landed on an island in the pacific. All players must carry out events to discover the secrets of the mysterious island.
[Rangers!] - The rules and OPFOR from Gators!, but this time, it's the Army Rangers' turn.
[Red Dwarf: The Card Game] - Based on the long-running British sitcom, the card game translates the core of the show - adventuring to avoid boredom - into a two player icon-matching race.
[SuperGuys] - Create your own 4-person team of superheroes with dozens of possible powers, then fight for the right to defend the city!
[To A Pulp] - Fast-playing, simple pulp-gaming rules that use free downloadable paper counters and four kinds of map sets (included).

As of 09/29/07

[Divine Nuke Wrath] - The end of days draws near. The ruler of the Pantheon will be whomever has the most devout followers in Heaven. A quick co-op / competitive game of anarchy and destruction for 3 to 4 demigods.
[Djarhun] - A fantasy board game -- players move around the board, find items, and slay monsters. When a player is powerful enough, they may try to claim the Book of Avrakar. Whoever brings the Book to the predetermined location, is the victor.
[EasyShip] - Simple naval-battle rules for 20th-century ships. Minimal record-keeping and critical-hit-centered rules bring large battles into the realm of possibility, while preserving most of each ship's details.
[EasyStar] - Starship design and tactical battle. Easy to learn, but dozens of options keep the game from becoming predictable. Up to 20 ships per player, multiple ship sizes and weapon types, carriers, flagship advantages, and more.
[Gators!] - A modern amphibious operation, with helicopters, swimming armored-personnel carriers, LCAC's, Harrier jets, and all the other equipment a real Marine Expeditionary Unit uses. Includes rules for two scenarios.
[Mythfire] - Build an army of centaurs, harpies, griffons, and giants, then bash your opponents into the ground.
[Orbital Battle] - Space and land war in a solar system where the planets move in their orbits, changing the game map every turn.
[Rollerball] - Players use their workman, whose job it is to run around and make changes to the ring, to help them get a ball that is travelling the concentric rings around the board to pass ovet their base for points.
[S.L.O.B.S. III] - The Simple Large Outer-space Battle System - 42 spaceships on a side, 10 ship types plus fighters. Easy rules, quick set-up, no record-keeping, large-scale mayhem.
[Space Colony Cheeses] - Can you build a successful dairy colony on another planet? Build barns, ice-cream warehouses, power plants and veterinary modules.

As of 09/21/07

[1930!] - A game inspired by the game Diplomacy that attempts to retain Diplomacy's simple rules and personal interaction, but extending the game play to include aircraft, the political or economic power of countries, and many more neutral countries.
[All the Ships] - A set of counters for naval battles. If you ever wanted to re-enact Jutland or Leyte Gulf, but your budget for miniatures limited you to the Monitor vs the Virginia, your ships have come in!
[Cthulhu Boardgame] - Based on the Cthulhu stories by H.P. Lovecraft -- be the first to collect all three Artefacts. Will the good guys win, or will the Monster and the cultists rule the day?
[Dungeon Plungin'] - A fantasy board game of exploration and adventure -- you build a party of adventurers, then build a dungeon as you go. Every game is different as the number of variables is huge.
[Felix Sex] - An ancient Roman game similar to Backgammon. The marvelous thing about this game is that the words tended to spell out clever sentences -- the name means 'Lucky Sixes'
[Generic Counters] - Sheets of land-unit counters, for other people's game rules in almost any era. Heavy on infantry and cavalry, but armor and other modern units are also represented. Seven different colors, so you can get the armies you want.
[Interstellar War] - A science fiction strategic war game set in a universe that the players themselves could define, rather than be forced into a setting.
[The M8 Map System] - Modular hex maps for creating almost any land or land/sea map you can think of.
[Solo Dungeon Bash] - On your own and stuck for something to do? Try this free Hack and Slash Solo Dungeon Crawl. You only need six sided dice pen and paper and of course the free rules from the game's website. It's simple, it's fun, it's free.
[Starfighter Combat] - A game of tactics and intuition, players strive to out-maneuver and out think their opponents -- the players may control single Star fighters or entire squadrons.
[Tabula] - An ancient Roman precursor to Backgammon, this game was known as Alea, meaning 'gambling', but came to be called Tabula, meaning 'board' or 'table'
[The Wars of David] - Israel is a small but prosperous kingdom led by David son of Jesse, her greatest king and a skillful warrior. Israel will need that skill, because her every border adjoins a hostile nation.

As of 09/14/07

[30] - Solitaire dice game in which you get to throw the dice exactly 30 times. If you are efficient with your early tosses, you can use your saved throws to improve your score.
[Afrika] - A mancala variant with a distinctive Draughts-like feeling because of its forced winning combinations.
[All the Way Down] - It is the dawn of time and the cosmic turtles are gathering. Each turtle wants to be the one at the top of the tower that will eventually hold up the world.
[Anansi] - An abstract game for 2 to 4 players inspired by Tibetan sand mandalas and named after a mythic spider from African folk tales.
[Arepo] - An abstract game based on the Latin magic square, currently only available in in Catalan and French.
[Balam] - Each player take the role of a competing king who is building cities on various sites of the thick forest of the Yucatan in the 8th century -- the most prestigious king will become the first emperor of Yucatan.
[Battles: Win or Lose] - Basically an amalgamation of a trading card game and a role-playing game. The object of the game is to beat your opponent Mobs to a pulp.
[Biathlon] - Competitors from the US, France, Russia, Canada, and Italy seek to ski through the course with the fastest time while shooting accurately at three groups of targets.
[Black Hole Explorer] - What evidence do we have to understand Einstein’s predictions about the strange creatures known as ‘black holes’? Expect the unexpected in this board game and learn how black holes affect the space and time around them.
[Bombardment] - Bomb your path do victory in this 2-player abstract game.
[Bosconian-D] - Solo dice game based on the arcade game Bosconian by Namco -- attack and destroy the enemy's bases. You must also shootdown enemy missiles, space mines, and asteroids that get in your way.
[Box Hex] - A Hex variant on a three-dimensional 'boxed' topology -- be the first to connect your two opposite segments with a continuous line of colored-in circles.
[Clash of Empires] - A Conflict Simulation of the Battle of Magnesia in 190BC between the armies of the Roman Republic and the Seleucid Empire.
[CMYK] - A Chinese Checkers variant played with 4-sided dice.
[Coatl] - A vaguely Aztec-themed race around a spiral. Promote your pieces and screw over your opponents with their special abilities.
[Country Trains] - This is a tile placement game with additional pieces (trains) that move around on the tiles -- sorta like Carcassonne with a train theme.
[Duodecim Scripta] - An ancient Roman game whose name means 'Twelve Lines.' The object was to get all one's pieces across the board to the final square, much like modern Backgammon
[Feudal Warfare] - 1:5 scale Feudal-era rules for 25mm size miniatures intended for use at conventions (simple set of rules, a referee running the event, traditional 2-sided linear battle.)
[Imperial Ambitions] - A simple space warfare game. The scale of the game, however, is limited only by the size of the maps the players want to build and the number of counters they want to make.
[Mozaika Numernabisa] - A game loosely based on a scene form Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra where Numernobis is showing a mosaic he's building.
[Runaround] - A race game with a twist for two players. Be the first player to get 5 “runs” by passing a piece over your starting space 5 times. Be careful! The “U” shaped board can cause you to swicth places with an opponent, for good or for bad!
[Werewolf] - A public domain game that takes place in a small village which is haunted by werewolves -- will the werewolves devour the villagers, or will the villagers discover the monsters in their midst?
[Westminster Abbey or Glorious Victory!] - A simulation of the The Battle of Cape St Vincent (14th February 1797)
[Whigs & Scalps] - A simulation of The French & Indian War (1754-1760)

As of 08/25/07

[Commodore] - Simplistic Napoleonic era sea battle simulation using the Micro-Deck Concept: Easily made minimalist deck.
[Don't Touch My Booty!] - A silly little pirate game for 2 players! The Goal? Arrrgghh! To be the pirate with the most booty at the end of the game, of course! This is done by creating rows of 3 or more coins.
[Praxis] - A chess variant that incorporates the Zen philosophy of opposing forces defining the Way.
[Tako] - Based loosely on a mathematical game called Tsianshidsi, Tako is a fun little game.

As of 08/12/07

[55Stones] - A new one-rank Mancala game from Germany with simultaneous movement and perfect information. Players try to capture most stones. Draws are not possible.
[Axles and Alloys] - A free miniatures game about futuristic vehicular combat. Build your car, then send it out to combat other players to see who the King of the Road really is...
[Battle of Honey Springs] - A wargame modeling the largest Civil War battle in the Indian Nations.
[Congo's War 1998 to 1999] - A wargame simulating the events that occurred between August of 1999 and November of 1999, in Central Africa, in the conflict that is known as the great war of the African continent.
[Gladius et Sarissa: Cynoscephalae, 197 BC] - A simulation of a classic battle between the Roman manipular legion and a Hellenistic force descended from the army of Alexander the Great.
[Hack & Sack New Jersey] - The alien Krylons invade the Garden State! Spaceships disgorge hordes of Cossacks and Roman-style legions; Jerseyite biker gangs and accountants fight back.
[Ice Age] - It's mastodon herding season, and you and the other hunters from your tribe have managed to spook a few of them into a box canyon. Now all you have to do is kill a few for the coming winter.
[Points Total] - Will you grab the high scoring spots, or will let your tile score high by pointing toward other tiles?
[Silent Dark] - A traditional miniatures wargame set in the 25th Century with an extremely flexible rules system that is easily converted to many genres, from Super Heroes combat to Fantasy..
[Yangsh] - Two players try to make rows of 5 markers by flipping them to their own color. When you succeed in making 5-in-a-row, you must take the row and one of your pawns off the board, making it harder for you to make the next 5-in-a-row.

As of 08/03/07

[Abande] - Attempt to get the highest score by entering new pieces on the board or capturing your opponent's pieces. The main tactical concept of Abande is the 'band' -- all the pieces on board must remain connected. The second game in Dieter Stein's 'Stacking Game Trilogy.'
[Accasta] - A 2-player abstract game with a clear, consistent structure -- the game uses stacked pieces, multiple moves, and liberation of previously captured pieces (no piece is ever removed from board during play.) The firts game in Dieter Stein's 'Stacking Game Trilogy.'
[Attangle] - Be the first to build 3 stacks of your color which are 5 pieces high in this 2-player abstract game. The final game in Dieter Stein's 'Stacking Game Trilogy.'
[Beyond the River Don] - A campaign game that takes maybe 30 minutes to create from scratch, with limitless scenarios, a different map each and every time, and has counters representing numerous nationalities and groups.
[Bunker Hill] - Card game based on the bettle from the American Revolution.
[Calculi] - This ancient Roman game is the familiar game of 'Five in a Row,' which was played on the same boards as Latrunculi. Some historians and archeologists have referred to this game as Roman Draughts or Checkers.
[Dragon’s Hoard] - The hero who escapes the dungeon with the most treasure wins in this Icepack (piecepack/Icehouse) game.
[Dungeon Crawl] - A piecepack game. After building the dungeon, players move their characters around the dungeon seeking treasure. Monsterous denizens and deadly traps pose hazards, but defeating these challenges earns experience useful for later encounters.
[Petteia] - This ancient Roman game is the original version of Latrunculi -- the objective is to either capture or immobilize all the enemies stones.
[Space Insurrection] - A game of interstellar conquest. Gain the loyalty of all ten worlds or eliminate all enemy units from the map.

As of 07/27/07

[Aardvark] - The Aardvark game's overall objective is based on the idea that people, not cards, should be the friends of Aardvarks.
[Animal Hunters] - A game where players move their pieces (hunters) on a hexagonal desert. Once 4 hunters are next to a hex with an animal, that animal is captured by the player who has most hunters nearby.
[Basic Starship Combat System] - A simple, flexible starship combat system, inspired by Star Fleet Battles.
[BB-Deathmatch] - What do you do when you have a half dozen friends over to play a miniatures game? You could play one large battle with most of the players bored most of the time, or you could play BB Deathmatch.
[Blockdance] - Capture by group pivot moves in this 2-player abstract game of 'blockdancing' stones.
[Free Market] - A trick-taking game where the person who wins a round of bidding gets to choose partners. Partnerships surely will not last for more than a couple hands in a row, making for Strange Bedfellows as the saying goes.
[Gridlock] - An abstract strategy game for 4 players, played with Icehouse pieces -- end up with the most pieces pointing in your direction, with as many pieces as possible lined up in a single column.
[The Highest Ground] - A band of mercenaries from Earth have been transported by aliens to another planet to conquer the local population that is made up of knights, Roman Legions, pony riding barbarians and Egyptian pharaohs.
[OP-Position] - Players attempt to capture 4 checkers of one color or 6 checkers total. However, movement around the outside of the board is governed by the die that moves about in the 5x5 center, and pieces of opposite color move in opposite directions.
[Qurush] - You’ll flip for this 3-D puzzle game for two or four players. Slide and flip cubes on a shared game board to create your secret pattern. Don’t get squished!

As of 07/20/07

[Apostle] - A Christian 'war' game. Build your churches, guard them against false teachings, deal with persecution, and raise up more workers to make more churches.
[Basic Fleet Combat System] - A minimalist game of starship fleet combat, with an eye to playability.
[Battle of Talana Hill] - A wargame simulating the Battle of Talana Hill, the first major clash of the Second Boer War.
[Black & White] - Move and jump to make a 4 in-a-row or stalemate the adversary in this 2-player abstract game.
[Blue Nile] - Travel thru the Nile until you find a dead end for your opponent in this 2-player abstract game.
[Dilbert C.E.O.] - The evil C.E.O. of your company is now dead -- you are one of the employees who seek this position. It doesn't matter how good you get at your job if you are not the first to replace the C.E.O.
[Dominoids] - You control a small 'Dominoid' colony -- microscopic creatures that spend their time just swimming around, breeding, and eating -- in this 2-player piecepack game.
[Flotilla] - A simple startship combat game. Now you can really play fleets of 50+ ships in only a few hours.
[Forts] - All is not peaceful in Fortland -- everybody on this square-shaped continent is trying to invade everybody else! The only answer is to build forts.
[Latrunculi] - The ancient Roman game's name means 'robber-soldiers' or 'mercenaries' and was the most popular thinking man's game in the Roman Empire.

As of 07/13/07

[Battle for Paradise] - A strategic board game for two players. The goal is to capture and hold cities on a contested island paradise. Can also be used with the Budget Battlefield tabletop gaming system from Microtactix Games.
[Postcard from the Revolution] - A postcard that includes the board, counters, rules and historical background of a single battle from the American Revolution. Plus, it is perfectly legal to send through the mail.

As of 07/06/07

[Attack Vector] - A game of futuristic combat between ships in space that attempts to add some realistic elements to the game, while keeping it fun to play.
[Barnard's Star] - A science fiction war game of the first interstellar war.
[Delegate Dash] - Players are candidates of the Piecepack Party, seeking its nomination for President of the Republic. Sometimes the game-ending convention brings a surprise!
[Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived.] - Now you can live the life of King Henry the VIII and give your six wives the same fates.
[Earth Expects] - A highly detailed set of tactical space combat rules which emphasise skill over firepower, representing battles within the solar system between ships capable of manoeuvre at sub light speed.
[Five Sides] - Five sides is a throw back to your early days of playing games. When all you had was a pen, some paper, and time to kill during study hall.
[Glak] - Players try to enclose as much territory as possible using their stones and walls present on the board by adding new stones and moving the ones already on the board.
[Glik] - Players try to transport all their pieces from their starting to home positions while blocking opponents.
[Klin Zha] - Also known as Klingon Chess -- the object of Klin Zha is to capture your opponent's goal or make it impossible for your opponent to move legally.
[Knucklebones] - Perhaps the most popular game played among the Romans. It resembled the game of dice except that sets of marked bones were used, called tali or knucklebones.

As of 06/29/07

[Armies at Lutzen] - This game simulates the Battle of Lutzen during the 30 Years War.
[Assault on Belgium] - A free one-turn mini game featuring the German conquest of Belgium in 1940.
[Chess] - The classic game of skill. What more can I say?
[Middleman] - Players take the part of traders dealing in tins of some commodity -- buy and sell with the object of ending the game with more money than your competitors.
[Pagoda] - Warring Confucian tribes battle for control of a sacred mountaintop. Features a whimsical reincarnation scheme.
[PocketCiv] - A Solitaire Civization game that's compact enough to play on a plane. Hopefully. Well, maybe not, but it's close...in it's most basic form. Winner of The Gone Gaming 2006 Board Game Internet Awards: Best Downloadable Board Game
[Rock, Scissors, Paper] - A two player pure abstract board game which mixes 'Rock, Paper, Scissors' with Chess and Capture the Flag.
[Sprouts] - An abstract line-and-dot pen and paper game. The strategy in Sprouts lies in using your lines to divide the paper up into parts that trap dots.
[The Triangle Game] - A game of pure strategy in which the combatants maneuver their stones around a triangular board to their home base. A self-balancing game, the power can shift in an instant between the three players.
[Zombie Wars] - In the sleepy town of Smallton, the zombie lors will settle their grudges once and for all, pitting their shambling hordes against each other in a battle for dominance.

As of 06/22/07

[Age of Empires] - Based on Microsoft's PC game Age of Empires. This is a tactical-level abstraction of epic empire building and conquest.
[Anaxis] - A tactical space wargame, using ship counters and hex paper. It's moderate in complexity and detail (especially when compared to some other games in the genre.)
[Anteel] - A rules-light but tactically serious space wargame, which is totally diceless. In fact, there are no randomizers of any kind, resulting in a game that is all about strategy, rather than luck.
[Boxes] - The classic pencil and paper games where players take turns connecting dots that are horizontally or vertically adjacent, trying to complete squares.
[Decay] - A changing landscapes game for the piecepack. Attack other players and make it harder for them to move, or slowly destroy the board. play. Last player remaining on the board wins!
[Deduction] - This is a deduction game for the piecepack where you try to determine a missing tile by asking questions about the tiles in the other player’s hands.
[First and Ten] - Detailed simulation of American football. Real-life teams are rated based on statistics. Player(s) choose offensive (and defensive) plays, then results are determined through dice and chart lookups.
[Kronus Pyramid] - Enter the Kronus Pyramid is search of the Kronus Jewel. Beware of the Guardians -- and watch out for trap doors!
[Pipelayer] - A pen and paper game played with two grids of dots that are slightly offset from one another. To win, a player must make a continuous connection from one side of the board to the other.
[Ringmaster] - This game recreates the strategic battles between the good and evil armies of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth. The battle mechanism is based on the play of special cards. No dice are used.

As of 06/15/07

[Agincourt] - A sneek peek at GMT's Men of Iron that lets you fight out the Battle of Agincourt between the French and the English.
[Battleship(s)] - Sink your opponent's fleet before he sinks yours in this classic public domain pen and paper game.
[Coyote Moon] - Players race to be the first to gather and place their spirit stones on the moon totem spaces of the spirit wheel in this piecepack game.
[Crocodile Hop] - A mad hopping game for the piecepack -- hop your foolish young frogs to victory, while avoiding being eaten by Old Croc.
[Doodads] - “I’ll trade you a cabbage and some duct tape for your toddler.” A game about trading and building for 3 to 5 players.
[Fields of Battle: Primitive Combat] - A combat tactics and strategy game set in a pre-gunpowder era.
[Hangman] - The classic public domain pen and paper game. One player thinks of a word and the other tries to guess it by suggesting letters.
[Maven] - Every player is given the same 25 letters, in the same order, and they compete to make the most of them.
[NANOgames] - Five interesting, playable game that each fit on a business card.
[Poker Squares] - Using the same 25 cards, players compete to score the most points by making Poker hands both vertically and horizontally on a 5x5 grid.

As of 06/08/07

[Alexander the Game] - A free solo card game set in the ancient world of Alexander The Great.
[Battlefront] - A free card game set in World War II. The players control opposite factions and face each other in a fight for victory through five different fronts. The more you get, the better your chances of winning.
[Big Brutal Basketball] - A free card game about a basketball match between 2+ players.
[Biloba] - A abstract game of custodial capture where captures can cause chain reactions.
[Bivouac] - Slide and capture to occupy your own home base in this 2-player abstract game.
[Coin Collectors] - A Solitary Confinement game for the piecepack. Collect all the coins on the 5x5 grid.
[Colonization] - As an interstellar explorer your mission is to colonize more planets then the other species before you run out of time. A game for the piecepack.
[International Philosophy Grudgematch] - A boardgame simulating a football [soccer] match between teams of French and German Philosophers.
[Nitro] - A free card game about FORMULA 1 (F1) racing for 2+ players. The more the players, the more exciting the play will be.
[Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo: The Card Game] - A free card game about the famous computer game for 2 players. Fight for victory using your favourite player: Blanka, Guile, Balrog and all the others.

As of 06/01/07

[Clear!] - A piecepack game very similar to Bingo in the sense that each player possesses a “card,” which one marks based on a random element. In this case, you are attempting to remove coins based on the roll of 4 dice.
[Climbing Man] - What is it about climbing a rock wall? The thrill? The test of body and mind? The satisfaction? Plain craziness??!! A solitaire piecepack game.
[The Green Pipe] - Find the holes in your opponent's secret pipeline before he finds the holes in yours. An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
[Hexagonal Black Box] - Determine the location of the 'atoms' in this hexagonal version of Black Box. An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
[Hide & Guess] - Form 'secrets' by selecting 5 black chess pieces from a complete chess set by hiding them behind a screen. Guess your opponent's secrets first! An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
[Indivisible] - A card game for 2-4 players -- Think Go Fish, but with strategy...
[Jewels in the Sand] - Only the Sultan knows what things are 'jewels.' Everything else is sand in the desert. The Jewel Thief devises sieves to sift jewels from sand. An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
[Maze of Good & Bad] - A solitaire card game not unlike those 'Choose your own adventure' game books -- explore the maze with single player mode, or duke it out in a two-player Duel Battle! Choose from 13 possible characters, good and bad!
[Neptune Ruler of the Sea] - Will you get the crow? Or perhaps the trident? Both will help you collect cards in this unusual card game for 3-8 people.
[Robot Maze Race] - Each player tries to program their robot to maneuver through a disorganized warehouse without bumping into too may crates or walls on the way. An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.

As of 05/25/07

[Choosy Sushi] - A changing landscapes game for the piecepack. You are a waiter at a very busy (and often times chaotic) sushi restaurant. Deliver the food the fastest, while working with an uncooperative coveyor belt.
[Christmas Lights] - It’s nice to spruce up the Christmas tree with light even if your brothers and sisters are a little competitive about it. This year you’ll show them how to do it right.
[City Council] - A game for the piecepack. Players will develop a new community through adroit manipulation of zoning and transit laws and important city councilors. The player who does this best wins the game.
[City Planning] - The players are the city planners hired to develop Fumblebuck. They compete with each other to create the best-supported Residential, Agricultural, Commercial, and Industrial zones in which businesses and families can thrive.
[Dead Even] - Match three or more dominoes so that the top row value is equal to the value of the bottom row.
[Festival Climbers] - Players will take the roll of a team of climbers that must race to the top of the temple to ring the bell and start the village's celebration.
[Forsooth] - You must determine the distribution of wealth in the region by figuring out which residents are honest, which are liars, and whic are 'diplomatic' (sometimes liars, sometimes honest.) An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
[High Noon] - A memory game for two steely-nerved gunslingers. Recall the sequence of cards played on an ever-growing stack.
[Invader] - A game based on a kind of videogame very common in the early 80s: the invasion of the Earth by a fleet of alien ships. The hopes of the Earth reside in the ability of a lone space warship, which has the task of decimating the invaders.
[Mosaico] - A strategic tile-laying game: every player is an artist working on the Imperial Mosaic and has to show his skills, putting on the mosaic the tiles the emperor gave him before the other players do it.

As of 05/18/07

[4-Square] - Unlike the playground game of the same name this is not a game of eliminating. It requires only a standard deck of playing cards without jokers.
[Arrow Cubes] - Capture your opponents cube or force them to stalemate you in this 2-player abstract game.
[Battle of Berlin] - A two player card game simulating the battle of Berlin (4/3/1945 – 5/2/1945). Players are Russian Generals competing to be the first to capture Berlin.
[Bonsai Samurai] - A nano-game of a duel between two samurai. The game consists of a single card which serves as a somewhat chaotic spinner, which determines the players' options in a weighted rock/paper/scissors-style contest.
[Cannon] - An elegant 2 player game of war, it is easier to learn than chess with the same level of replay you would expect from classic games.
[Chinese Chess (piecepack)] - This is the classic game Chinese Checkers adapted for play on a square board (or, more precisely, this is the game Halma adapted to play with the piecepack
[Cro Magnon] - Each player controls a tribe of Paleolithic Homo sapiens. The first player to advance to the Neolithic Age and control the most Territories on the map is the winner.
[Gnome Sweet Gnome] - Recruit the bravest gnomes, make unbeatable combinations of three cards and destroy the opponent’s defense to conquer the land of the four elements!
[House Rules -- The Game] - A strategy game where you don’t need to be lucky, but just to get used to the continually changing rules in order to win.
[Zombie Nightmare] - Your goal is to get Jeff (your alter ego) safely through a cemetery infested with zombies. Will you make it? Or will you end up.... zombie food?

As of 05/11/07

[Astromachia] - A starship combat simulation boardgame for two or more players, featuring fast, highly interactive play, realistic Newtonian movement, and a strong sense of three-dimensionality.
[Battle of Marignano] - A free wargame about the Battle of Marignano. Takes place during the Italian wars, and simulates a large battle which took place in Italy between the French and Swiss in 1515.
[Boum!] - Players compete in a closed arena, planting bombs against each other (similar the the videogame Bomberman.) Don't be the first one to blow up!
[Brewhouse Bash] - You are quietly sitting in a bar enjoying your fungus beer when a fight breaks out. Being an Ork, you simply can’t resist joinin’ in and so a massive scrap develops....
[Café Race] - You are office workers racing downstairs with a cup full of coffee. The player that makes it to the bottom of the stairs and spills the least amount of coffee wins.
[Dadama] - A checkers-like game for two that uses dice instead of checkers.
[Dicefest] - A strategic, abstract board game for two, three or four players who must manipulate their dice and get them to the other side of the board to win.
[Jungle] - A Bonazai Game (played entirely on a single card) for 2 players -- try to gather fruit while staying away from the snakes!
[Survival Terror] - A free game inspired by George A. Romero's zombie movie series (Night of the Living Dead, etc.)
[Toy Train] - You're building a train out of letters -- The goal of the Engine-Driver is to form the longest word he can; on the other hand, the goal of the Braker is to form the shortest word he can.

As of 05/04/07

[DNA] - The object of DNA is to possess the greatest value of Icehouse pieces at the end of the game.
[E, the Game of Martian Chinese Checkers] - The Icehouse game of Martian Chinese Checkers -- chinese checkers with Icehouse pieces.
[Edges] - Everyone on Mars is too busy playing Icehouse , so the Brigands of the Canals are seizing the canals, and making the farmers pay them for water.
[gUFO] - Is this an alien invasion? Shall the base launch an alarm and shot the approaching targets, or there is only the risk to wake up the general for a harmless... owl?
[The Horsemen of Buzkashi] - A card game for 2-4 adventurous horsemen which simulates the national pastime of Afghanistan.
[A Lamb Between Two Lions] - A board game for 2-6 players that attempts to represent some of the action of Buzkashi games held at festivals in northern Afghanistan.
[Lines of Action] - A game from Sid Sackson's A Gamut of Games -- get all your pieces into a single group that is connected if All the pieces in the group form an unbroken chain of horizontally, vertically, or diagonally adjacent pieces.
[Lost Treasures] - A simple two player game where each player must hire a party of adventurers to retrieve the treasure from a forgotten dungeon.
[Puzzle Train] - A puzzle-slide game (similar to a cross between Mississippi Queen and Carcassonne) for 4 players, based on the Puzzle Railroad pc-game by XD Games.
[Qwijit] - Two abstract strategy games where you place stones on a grid. In the first, you are attempting to capture the Qwijit stone in the center of the grid. In the second, you want to place more stones than your opponent.

As of 04/27/07

[11 Kings] - A civilization game for 6 or (preferably many) more players.
[Caravan] - A pick up and deliver game where players trade goods and put up buildings.
[Chaos] - In this game of controlled chaos, the players compete to capture all ten colors of Icehouse pieces.
[Cold Spell] - Form the most valuable words with cards gathered from the playing field using the Icehouse pieces.
[Office Gossip] - A game of scheming and intrigue set in an office environment for five to thirteen (or more) players. Similar to Werewolf or Mafia, except that it doesn't require a Narrator and plays well with a smaller minimum group
[The Russian Portfolio] - A wargame involving the German's Army Groups Centre, North, & South with their intrepid Minor Allies versus the Soviet Russians during the beginning of the Russian Campaign.
[Space Junkyard] - Fly through a space junkyard & collect parts for your ship -- the player who best improves his ship when all the tiles are used is the winner.
[Star Smuggler] - A solitaire game of tense adventure in the far future. For each event, you, as star smuggler Duke Springer must make the decisions which will make you huge profits -- or may cost you your life.
[TaleSpin: The Card Game] - A fan-created game based on the Disney animated cartoon. Can you be the first to deliver your cargo and claim the title of Cape Suzette's fastest shipping company? Or are you planning on stealing it all to increase the wealth and legend of the Sky Pirates?
[Trolly Car] - A game for 2-6 players in which two trolley lines compete to be the first to cross contested intersections.

As of 04/20/07

[Attraction] - Pieces orbit each other in this 2-player abstract game.
[Barrier] - Jump around the board & create barriers in this 2-player abstract game.
[Billiards] - Knock your pieces around the board until you get all your pieces to the other side in this 2-player abstract game.
[Road Cycling Tour] - A road cycling simulation intended to be flexible enough to simulate any multi-stage road cycling event.
[Supersurf! Championship Sky-Surfing in the World of Judge Dredd] - A game of championship-level sky-surfing, or power-boarding, in the world of Judge Dredd. Race your surfer to the finish line, braving dangerous obstacles, at great heights and great speeds through one of 2000AD’s Mega-Cities.

As of 04/13/07

[18AL] - Each player buys stock in different train companies and helps build train lines over the state of Alabama.
[18GA] - Each player buys stock in different train companies and helps build train lines over the state of Georgia.
[Annuvin] - An abstract game where the number of pieces you have remaining determine how mobile your pieces are. Captures all of your opponent's stones to win
[Antimatter] - An explosive card game for two players. Will your cards make you points, or will they explode in your hands?
[Archers] - Invade your enemies's woods with your archers while keeping his archers out of your own woods.
[Archimedes] - Enter your opponent's port while staying out of range of his pieces in this 2-player abstract game.
[Aries] - Push your opponent off the board or into your own pieces with well-planned chain reactions in this 2-player abstract game.
[Ataxx] - It may look similar to Reversi/Othello, but it turns out to be quite different. Situations are not so easily reversed; strategies are more offensive. Because you must attack, attack and again...
[Atoms] - Split molecules into smaller atoms & stalemate your opponent in this 2-player abstract game.
[Attract] - Pieces attract each other in this 2-player abstract game.
[Cardinal’s Guards] - A Solitary Confinement game for the piecepack. Move your musketeer around the castle, defeating or luring guards, while searching various chambers, before trying to escape. Will you be able to bring proof of Cardinal Richelieu's treachery to the King in time?
[Castle Croquetnole] - An adaptaion of Lewis Carroll's game Castle Croquet for the piecepack. Be the first to successfully invade all of your opponents castles and return to your own castle.
[Chaos Cruisers] - In the midst of all the chaos of this futuristic race, one wily cruiser will prove to be the fastest, most agile, and most crafty of them all. Who will earn the Chaos Cup?
[Chariots] - A 'history repeats itself' game of racing chariots like in the Circus Maximus in ancient Rome, for the piecepack.
[Chariots] - A 'history repeats itself' game of racing chariots like in the Circus Maximus in ancient Rome, for the piecepack.
[Chemin Montagneux] - Trail-blaze a path and be the first to hike your way to the top of your own mountain peak in this piecepack game.
[Double-Entendre] - Two clever teams battle it out for the title of 'PunMeisters' in this Pun-Ultimate game of witticisms.
[Mundialito (Gold Cup)] - Move your pieces, push and jump over your opponents pieces until you score a goal in this Icehouse game.
[Q.U.L.E.] - A board game version of the classic computer game, M.U.L.E. -- battle to make the most of your time on a harsh planet.
[A Simple Game] - A tic-tac-toe-like game played on a 4x4 board.
[Soul Influence] - Take on the role of a recruiter for Heaven or Hell in this card game of soul acquisition!
[The Unnamed Game] - A game in three phases – resource gathering, trading, and creation – for three to five players. Gather resources to purchase FX to help your workers create Constructs. The player with the most Constructs at the end of the game wins.
[Wheels of Steel] - Build tracks and transport commodities with up to four different trains in this tile-laying game.

As of 02/24/07

[Alquerque] - The 'father' of checkers/draughts, dating back to at least ancient Egyptian times -- played on a 5x5 board, in much the same way as checkers/draughts.
[Alva] - Jump over enemy stone while minimuzing the number of your own pieces left on the edge of the board in this abstract games played on a 9x9 board.
[Atomic] - A game for two that's a real blast! An abstract game with a connection element -- be the player that has the most pieces showing in your color by the end of the game.
[Bushido] - A wargame set in feudal Japan. WIll your force be victorious, or does Seppuku await you instead? (currently available in Italian only, but an English translation is on its way.)
[Double Blind] - Deduce your opponent's secret pattern and complete both it and your own secret pattern in this interesting deduction game.
[Kabalam] - Play cards from your hand that equal the compounded sum of the packets in this card game based on Hebraic Cabala.
[Micrun] - A simple set of rules to play races with models of cars, trucks, race cars... you got the idea.
[Quadrant Z] - A paper and pencil game of galactic warfare. How will you win -- by occupying the most of the galaxy, by capturing your enemy's home base star, or by completely destroying your enemy?
[Question vs. Question] - A brilliant literary invention that is also a game, included by the English playwright Tom Stoppard in his memorable Rosencrantz and Guildestern Are Dead.
[The Tide] - You and your friends are collecting shells and cleaning up the beach in this clever tile game.

As of 02/17/07

[Alphatian Roulette] - The most violent game in the world (after chess, that is). Played with 5 six-sided dice, you attempt to massacre your opponent by inflicting ten points of damage on him.
[Anchor] - An abstract game played on an 8x8 hexagonal board where you attempt to create 'anchors' that surround the most space on the board.
[Battle Zone] - Be the first player to have a piece of each of the 10 colors in play cross over and off your opponent’s home row in this fast-paced icehouse game.
[Bears, Foxes & Hares] - Use your team of animals (a grumpy bear, an impatient fox and a nervous hare) to get to the center of the board first.
[Blockade (Icehouse)] - A two-dimensional race game for two players, played Volcano-style. A Volcano board is helpful but not necessary.
[Coup D'Etat] - Overthrow your enemy by either assassinating him or turning the populace against him --but to do this you'll need to find him! An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
[Decipher] - Can you crack the code in time? In Decipher, you must figure out your opponent's hidden code before they figure out yours. An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
[The Deck of Boards] - The Deck of Boards set (DoB) is a game system for playing abstract games.
[Depth Charge] - It's time to test what the new crewmen have learned about using sonar. The first team to find the other team's mines wins the trophy; the other will be scrubbing toilets. An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
[Don-Cha] - Figure out your opponent's words before he deduces yours. An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
[The Gamers Constellation] - Look at the stars, and you'll win if you're the first to spot your own Gamers Constellation. It's easy, it'll always stick somewhere around the silver disk of the moon...
[Knights (Shared Pieces Competition)] - Players move the knights around the board and collect points for landing on squares that have never been visited before. An entry into the About.com: 2004 Shared Pieces Game Design Competition.
[Liar!] - Try to guess the card in the middle of the table -- but don't get caught lying! The winner of the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
[Package War!] - Players take on the role of package shipping moguls determined to dominate the industry and crush the competition. An entry into the About.com: 2004 Shared Pieces Game Design Competition.
[Tonga] - Players use special dominoes to build islands, the larger the better. An entry into the About.com: 2004 Shared Pieces Game Design Competition.
[Yin-Yang] - Claiming territory is the goal here, as players stake out their claims on a 6x6 board. An entry into the About.com: 2004 Shared Pieces Game Design Competition.

As of 02/10/07

[6x5] - Each player must create a pattern of 5 elements, using the same building items and same area. There's a great chance that you're helping your opponent as well while you're trying to create your own pattern.
[Aboyne] - Slide and jump your pieces until you reach your goal on the opposite corner in this abstract game.
[Abstract Crosse] - An abstract version of the game Crosse -- a sort of revserse checkers played on a 10x10 board, with a special center area called the Crosse.
[Abyss] - Slide enemy stones out of the board in this abstract game played on a 5x5 board.
[Alchemy ICE] - Noughts and crosses (aka 'Tic-Tac-Toe') with randomized 'symbols' of five different types, played with icehouse pieces.
[All the King's Horses] - Stalemate your adversary with a set of shared horses.
[Antshouse] - An Icehouse game. Ants running the gauntlet over a pavement while mean kids tries to splat them.
[Arena (Icehouse)] - A combat game with Icehouse pyramids. By keeping track of, and selecting, the speed of your ship you will move around an imaginable arena for space combat, where the galaxys' aces settle the score!
[Godsend] - A minuatures wargame where players take the roles of gods, competing to determine which of the is the king of a fictitous world called The Verse.
[Golem] - Players allocate resources to orientation, movement, harvesting, and regeneration in an attempt to be the first to reach 30 points. The winner of the About.com: 2004 Shared Pieces Game Design Competition.
[Gosix] - You're trying to control 4 of the 7 hexagons. The trick is: whenever you get control over an hexagon, you lose some of the pawns that made you win.
[House of Doors] - Players try to lock each other into a small space by swinging doors. An entry into the About.com: 2004 Shared Pieces Game Design Competition.
[Höyük] - A game of building and placement played without a board. The replica of a village is built on the table using small square pieces representing houses.
[Tortellini Football] - A game of American football, using a piece of tortellini pasta as the ball. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Tumbling Down] - Grab control of the important stacks by placing your piece on top. But don't let your opponent capture your tallest tower. An entry into the About.com: 2001 8x8 Game Design Competition.

As of 02/03/07

[Missle Match] - Dominoes are put to creative use as missiles (one number is the missile power; the other is the travel distance) in this game. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Moriarty] - A deduction game in which two players each choose one of four colors and then try to determine which color their opponent has chosen. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Nelaxtam] - Invade the island and contol as much of it as possible before your adversary does. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Nibelungenlied] - An interesting game played on a triangle-based board based on The Nibelungenlied, an epic poem written in Germany about 1200AD. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Numa] - Roman and Arabic numerals are key in this abstract game designed by the maker of Octi. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Pulling Strings] - The first player to 'pull' stacks with a total of at least 5 pieces onto any combination of his home intersections wins. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Rock, Paper, Scissors, Inc.] - No longer satisfied with being a child's pasttime, Rock, Paper and Scissors have all gone into business against each other: Rocks Inc., Paper Inc., and Scissors Inc. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.

As of 01/27/07

[Acorn] - Tribes of oak harvesters line a small valley, preparing to plant their trees in the fields below. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Elasta] - Players try to push the Battle Line forward untill it reaches the opponent's ground line. The basic mechanism in this game was also used in the commercial game Caribbean. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Frames] - An abstract game played by two players on a Go board with its pieces. A finalist in the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[King of Pearls] - Players compete to build structures -- however, the player who uses less stones each turn builds fisrt. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Lanza] - Using cards to indicate the direction your pieces are going, capture your opponent's King, Queen, and Jack to win. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
[Praetorian] - The police try to hunt down an assassin in this exciting hunt. An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
[Reviser] - A new twist on the classic game Othello/Reversi. An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
[Spyhunting] - A spy is trying to travel from one corner to the opposite corner and back, the hunter is trying to shoot the spy before that happens. An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
[Takat] - A game of stacking strategy. An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
[Unlur] - An abstract strategy game played on a hexagon-shaped tesselation of hexagons with eight hexagons on each side. The winner of the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.

As of 01/20/07

[16!] - An abstract game where players drop 3x3 patterns matching those already on the board
[2006 World Series for Sports Illustrated Baseball] - If you know how baseball works, you already know most of the rules to Sports Illustrated Baseball! This 'expansion' lets you play out the 2006 World Series -- you don't need Sports Illustrated Baseball to play since everything you need is included in the downloadable file, expect for the dice.
[3 Musketeers] - An abstract game where you can either stalemate yourself or make 3 musketeers-in-a-row.
[369] - An abstract game where you attempt to be the 1 to make more 3 and 6 in-a-rows.
[4D Tic-Tac-Toe] - Try to make as many 3 in-a-rows that you can!
[Assault Gun WW2 Miniature Rules] - Free wargame rules for miniature wargaming WW2 large-scale battles. In Assault Gun, one unit is typically either an infantry regiment or a battalion, such as tanks. This means that a large, recognisable, action of WW2 can be fought in a day with a manageable number of units.
[Brain Burn] - A Solitary Confinement game for the piecepack similar to the classic 15-puzzle with some aspects borrowed from Ron and Marty Hale-Evans’ Changing Landscapes game 'Easy Slider'.
[Cetacean Ascension Moonbase 8 (CAM 8)] - Cetacean Ascension Moonbase 8 is a sub-surface tunnel claiming, giant hamster management game for three, four, or six hyperintelligent psychic whales.
[Defiance and Domain] - An abstract strategy game pitting the fiery Rebels against the ever present Imperium. An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
[Free at Last] - Free at Last is a card driven game that simulates the conflict between the Black civil rights movement and the White segregationists in the South in the 1950s and 60s.
[Gobbler] - One player has two pieces (Gobblers) that attempt to eat as many of the other player's 60 pieces (Littles) as possible. An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
[Hextris] - The object of this Icehouse game is to be the first to form three connected groups of five pieces of your color.
[Imperium Romanum Lite] - A province based simulation of Ancient Rome and her struggles, both internally and with surrounding foes.
[Knatsch - Das Turnierspiel] - Once a year the king organizes a gigantic tournament. The participants argue about the favor of castle and about the profit of castles. But the life as knights is, as well known, not completely harmless. Who has too many wounds has no hope for total victory by itself. The player with most points of fame wins the tournament.
[Louis XVI] - The king is trying to escape from the people; the people are trying to capture him. An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
[Mine-Shaft Gap] - A game that simulates a battle for resources on, above, and under the surface of a lifeless but treacherous planetoid. Tunnels can cave in nd market forces are unpredictable. The resource making your planet rich today might be better off greasing the treads of your tanks tomorrow!
[Net Y] - A vaiant of the game Y, there are three superimposed, interdependent instances of Y which are played simultaneously.
[Ninja Golf: 18 Holes of Death!] - You're a ninja at the 'Jade Tee' golf championships. The winner of this tournament will bring great honor to his or her house (and get some super-sweet merchandizing deals to boot!). Do you have what it takes to win in the cutthroat world of Ninja Golf?
[Paranoid Delusions] - In the game, each player adopts simultaneously two roles: the 'Paranoid', a lone conspiracy nut, and the 'Enemy', a network of real or unreal groups hiding a nefarious secret. There are two ways to win the game, and part of a winning strategy is attacking yourself!
[Pass The Ewe] - A relatively simple five-suited card game for three to six players and a highly-contested female sheep. You vie with your opponents for control of the ewe by bidding like-suited cards from your hand. The more heavily-contested the ewe is, the more points you get for claiming it, creating an interesting approach-avoidance tension when you’re actively pursuing the ewe.
[Playground Commandos] - Pogosticks vs. skateboards -- and watch out for the trash cans -- in this clever duel. An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
[Por'rika] - The Schelati (amphibians) lay eggs in the Sacred Waters. But the Sacred Waters are in the prime hunting territory for the Ser'ra (large birds of prey). An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
[Saxon Shore] - A game that simulates the warfare and politics of Britain after the Roman withdrawal in the fifth century AD. Two to five players struggle to become the dominant kingdom of the British Isles
[Scribe] - A pen and paper game where players try to form 'glyphs' on nine 9x9 mini grids. Wherever you leave your mark will determine where you play next! Capture the most mini grids and win.
[Sharks and Jets] - This is a tactical combat game based on the musical West Side Story (no, really). Gang members attack by snapping their fingers, singing and performing dance moves. All combat is resolved on the Choreography Results Table.
[Torpedo] - Each piece is a naval ship, all placed on the field of play in a mad rush. Then the small ships shoot torpedoes, then the medium ones, and then the large ones. The player with the most pips of ships left at the end is the winner.
[Unbreakable] - A game of futuristic ground combat for 2 players. Each player assembles a platoon,then the platoons meet in combat where they unleash terrible powers of overwhelming destruction. But thanks to amazing leaps in materials technology, the battlefield of the future will no longer be a dangerous place (for the combatants).
[Whakka Mole] - A game of bluffing and brinksmanship for two people looking to vent a little aggression. You get points for whacking your opponent’s moles, and by keeping your moles from being whacked. It’s more strategic than it sounds at first. Trust me.
[Y] - A classic connection game played on a 10x10 triangular hexboard.
[Zagami] - An Icehouse game of Martian microbial life for four players. Each player controls a single-colored colony of microbes. Only one colony will survive the long journey from Mars to Earth. Will it be yours?
[Zendo] - A game of inductive logic in which the Master creates a rule and the Students attempt to discover it by building and studying arrangements of pyramids. The first student to correctly state the rule wins.

As of 10/14/06

[Cephalopod] - Played on a 5 x 5 board, players take turns adding their dice to the board, attemping to capture and place on the same turn. The player who occupies the majority of the board when the board is filled wins.
[Copolymer] - A paper-and-pencil game where players take turns coloring in cells on a paper board, at least one cell per turn. When a 'connection' is formed you must color in at least one more cell while it is still your turn. Once the board fills up, the player who has claimed the majority of cells wins.
[Diffusion] - A unique, robust addition to the family of Mancala games. Each player owns a set of pits on his side of the board -- his 'block'. Players take turns moving stones from pit to pit. If, at the conclusion of a turn, one of the two blocks is completely vacated, the owner of that block wins.

As of 10/07/06

[Bingo Battle] - A luck-of-the-dice piecepack game friendly and fair to all ages, regardless of skill. Players take turns rolling dice, trying to form locked stacks of coins that can later be claimed. Be cafeul, or someone may steal your locked stacks before you can claim them!
[Black Pawn Trucking] - You are the sole proprietor of the Black Pawn Trucking Company, a small freight operation trying to compete for goods delivery contracts in a tough economic environment.
[Black Thursday] - You are a New York investor floating an economic bubble that’s about to burst. Suddenly caught in the market panic, you use shrewd trading (and a bit of luck) to get rid of as much stock as possible and avoid jumping out any windows.
[Blockade (piecepack)] - Runner -- try to get one of your four pawns to the end of the board. Blocker -- stop him at all costs.
[Martian Backgammon] - A variation of backgammon, played with Icehouse pieces
[Martian Chess] - Martian Chess is a chess-like strategy game in which location, rather than piece color, determines which pieces you may move.
[Martian Mud Wrestling] - A 2-player Icehouse Game with 3 rules. Not a lot like mud wrestling, but what can you expect from martians?
[Pikemen] - Will your pikemen attack or defend? It's up to you in this game played with Icehouse pieces.
[RAMbots] - Similar to RoboRally, each player controls a single RAMbot, and will lay out strings of instructions which tell the RAMbot how to move and shoot beams of colored energy. The first player to tag four goals in a specified order wins the game.
[Rotationary] - A single-player puzzle game. Comparable to the Rubik's Cube(TM), each move causes a chain reaction. Before making a move each result must be considered. Unlike the cube, though, there are no wrong moves; it is possible to solve a puzzle at any state. Also unlike the Cube, the game is expandable.
[Thin Ice] - Sort of like Jenga, but with Icehouse pieces. This quick party game pits your balancing skills against that of others, allowing you to build piles up from three base pieces, but not allowing any easy stacking.
[Tic Tac Doh!] - A game similar to Tic-Tac-Toe played with Icehouse pieces. Players attempt to get three same-sized pieces in a row on a grid that is formed as the game is being played.
[Volcano] - A clever, puzzle-style game in which players move 'caps' around on top of a group of volcanoes, triggering eruptions which cause colored streams of lava to flow out across the playing field.

As of 09/30/06

[Army Brats] - What could be scarier than military school? How about being one of the new kids? Luckily, you have a cunning plan. You and the other new kids are going to try to get expelled so you can go back to public school with all your friends.
[Assassination Game Le, The] - Victim -- reach all the Secure Bases and return to the Safe House. Assassins -- eliminate the Victim before he can complete his mission.
[Baseball (piecepack)] - A a loose simulation of baseball for two players, played with a piecepack set. There’s plenty of luck involved, but some of the choices managers face in real life are represented here.
[Berlin] - Attempt to get 12 pieces of the Berlin Wall before your opponents do.
[Bid (piecepack)] - An abstract auction game for the piecepack -- be the first to reach 100 points. You get points by winning auctions -- rolling dice determine the rules for each auction.
[Branches & Twigs & Thorns] - An elegant little strategy game for two or four players, a chessboard, and some Icehouse pieces. Players seek to build chains of pieces of their own color and to force their opponents to branch of from opposing pieces of their opponents' colors.
[CrackeD Ice] - An Icehouse game you can play on a CD! An addictive dexterity game in the grand tradition of Don't Tip The Waiter.
[Gnostica] - An abstract territory based war game. Tarot cards make up the often-changing board, and players use Icehouse pieces to represent minions that control those territories.
[Hailstorm] - A quick, easy, luck-based game intended to feel vaguely like craps or roulette, played with Icehouse pieces.
[Homeworlds] - Take on the role of a space-faring civilization that's become embroiled in an epic, galaxy-wide struggle between Good and Evil
[Icehouse] - The original game to play with your elongated pyramids -- This bizarre little game completely does away with the concepts of turn sequence and structure, as it doesn't use turns, or rounds, or anything else to break up the action.
[IceSickle] - The Martian Peg Game -- similar to the solitaire games in which you capture pegs by jumping over them with other pegs.
[IceTowers] - A high-speed game of pyramid stacking, played without turns on any flat surface
[IceTraders] - You are the commander of a fleet of starships -- will you play cooperatively, allying yourself with the Good side to fight Evil, or will you be Evil, intent only on the destruction of your fellow players?
[Zarcana] - A game of war, journeys, growth, life, and death. Icehouse pieces are your minions, spreading out across a world composed of tarot cards.

As of 09/23/06

[Activator] - An abstract game where the object is to occupy the opposing player’s home square for a full turn or reduce the opposing player to a single piece or stack.
[Armada] - A large fleet of small, fast ships against a smaller fleet of slower, but more powerful warships. Which side will emerge the victors in this battle of the seas?
[Elemental Warriors II] - A dynamic, fast-paced duel for two elementalists. Object: Run your opponent out of resources.

As of 09/09/06

[Climb On!] - A battle of ascension for 2 players where you try to score more points than your opponent by climbing your largest dice as far up the mountain as you can before the game ends.
[Housewarming] - A game about moving in and settling down for 2 to 4 friends. End the game with the 'homiest' house by furnishing it with comfy furniture, stylish decor, hosting cool parties, and having interesting pets.
[Loser's Game] - A trick-taking game for 3 or more players that favors the underdog.
[Monster in the Cabbages] - Monster in the Cabbages is a quick-playing dice game for two to five cabbage harvesters. Your goal is to harvest as many cabbages as you can.
[PerkyGoth] - A game of social balance for 2 to 4 players. End the game with the highest average Perky and Goth rating and the smallest difference between the two.

As of 09/02/06

[Season Harvest] - A resource gathering game for two or more players in which each player is trying to gather the most fruit.
[Sherbie vs. The Silverfish] - A light-hearted game of insecticide and stress for three to five players. Amass an army of silverfish and send them to torment Sherbie, or grab a paper towel and some bug spray and attempt to defeat the insectile menace.
[Share & Share Alike] - A game of shifting loyalties for 4 players. Players attempt to manipulate the market so that they have the greatest value in shares by the end of the game.

As of 08/26/06

[Get Thee to a Dentist] - You didn't brush. You didn't floss. Now only your dentist can repair the damage. But can she keep up with the damage your opponents are causing?
[Juggernauts] - You're the Commander of a massive, sprawling, dynamically reconfigurable battle platform. Your goal is to use your Juggernaut to defend your territory by incapacitating your opponent's Juggernaut so your ground forces can approach it safely and overwhelm it.

As of 08/20/06

[10-Die Poker] - A clever little poker game that takes gobs and gobs of dice.
[Bogart] - A push-your-luck type dice game played with 4-sided dice and poker chips.
[Brain Baseball] - The Zombie card game you can play with a standard deck! Originally released in August 1998 as a limited-edition game, made with leftover bid cards from a poorly sorted print run of Give Me The Brain.
[Ceiling Fan Baseball] - The sport you can play with your Ceiling Fan! Basically, this is a game of baseball played with a wad of paper and a ceiling fan. Dumb, but fun!
[FIGHT!] - A nim-type game played with spare change.
[Flip] - A dice game where the object is to drive your opponent out of dice.
[Lost Pueblo of Doctor Green, The] - Someone has stolen the Pueblo! Can you guess who it is? A simple card-passing game with a strong bluffing element.
[Lunch Rush] - The players are competing fast-food franchises in a food court. Each player must first entice a customer to eat in her restaurant and then feed that customer to his particular satisfaction. If you can't feed a customer to his satisfaction, you lose points.
[Saoirse!] - To build scoring sets of dice – pairs, threes and fours – of 'suits' associated with Irish Republican history.
[Sloppy Seconds] - A trick-taking game where the object is to score the second most number of points in each suit. Also, the secord suit to be broken in in each hand is the trump suit.
[Yenta] - Yenta is based on a game by Aaron Richards called 'Stoopid Cupids,' sort of a cross between Liar's Dice and Go Fish.

As of 08/06/06

[Caveman Dating Game] - The players are a bunch of cavemen competing for the most beautiful women in the tribe. Of course the most desirable women are the most difficult to obtain and hold on to.
[Dungeons Dark and Dangerous] - Dungeons Dark and Dangerous is a fantasy wargame where war-parties search for adventure and treasure. The game is played with fantasy miniatures and wargame terrain.
[Garden Gnome Wars] - A scirmish-level, 'miniatures' wargame played with.... garden gnomes. This game is designed to get gamers outside the house to get some fresh air and engage in some physical activity.
[Little Fantasy Wars] - A miniature wargame inspired by H.G. Wells' 'Little Wars' that doesn't use dice or use random events.
[Narrative Meta-Rules for Games] - The purpose of these rules is to add story like elements to otherwise bland miniature and board games.

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New Games

Newly added games, listed by date

New added games, divided by date added and listed alphabetically (click on the game's entry for more info)