Trishaw Frenzy is a Malaysian design. The designer is Ewe Boon How, and the publisher is LUMA. This is a game about trishaws in Penang. It is a simple game, and I'd even consider it a children's game.
One easy way to describe the game is modernised Snakes & Ladders. This is a roll-and-move game. The board is made up of nine tiles randomly placed and oriented. The squares
Bombastic was first explained to me as advanced tic-tac-toe. It is a two-player-only abstract game played using 9 tiles laid out face-down in a 3x3 grid. Four of the tiles show a circle, another four a cross, and the last one a bomb. Each player is assigned an icon, circle or cross. Your goal is to reveal exactly three of your icon in a row on your turn. Beware. If you ever reveal the
Toy Battle is a two player abstract game. My first impression is
this is a game when you play with not only those tiny green toy soldiers but
also with unicorns, dinosaurs and robots, and you make proper rules for a
battle game in your living room, which you can imagine to be any world - space
station, beach front or graveyard. The game comes with many different boards,
Ghosts Galore is a simple tile laying game in which you fill your own 3x3 board with tiles. Your player board is an underground mine. The tiles have tracks for mine carts, and monsters, and diamonds. The monsters score points in different ways. Diamonds have point values. You also want to lay your tracks to connect exits properly so that you can score points with them.
You
Who else has watched the Disney cartoon 101 Dalmatians as a kid? Spots is a light dice game about dalmatians! Well, maybe not specifically dalmatians. Just dogs with spots. Many of the dogs in this game don't actually look like dalmatians. This is a game with a bit of push-your-luck, in which you race to fill six dog cards with dice of the right number of pips.
You start
Agent Avenue is a two player game with bluffing and psychological play. You are spies hiding in an innocent neighbourhood. You need to find and catch your opponent before they catch you. Well, that is how the story goes. In terms of practical implementation, you and your opponent race around a circular track, starting opposite from each other. Your goal is to run fast enough to catch your
Take A Number is an advanced version of the classic game from
Wolfgang Kramer, Take 5, also known as 6 Nimmt and
Category 5. My copy is a gift from Allen, and it is a 2-in-1 version
containing Take 5 too. It is recommended that you play
Take 5 before Take A Number, which makes sense, because the
game mechanism in Take 5 is a subset of
Take A Number.
Captain Tsubasa is a 2 player game based on the manga and anime of the same name. This Japanese manga and anime from the 1980’s is hugely popular not only in Japan but also around the world. It is about football (soccer). In the game you play a football match between two key teams in the story, Nankatsu and Toho. This is a card game, and you will see many characters from the series. If