Board Game Ideas

This variant of classic battleboats game has been proposed by lukulus and, according to the author's words, it could make the game much more dynamic. Well, the description follows:

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Name of the game: Admiral Battleboats

• The game is played on a bigger board - 15x15 squares.


• Each player has 3 aircraft carriers (5 squares long), 1 submarine (4 squares) and 6 destroyers (3 squares). This number of ships should maintain the optimal ratio of water and playing pieces.


• A player has 1 shot for every own ship which is not sunk (just like in Battleboats Plus) except the submarine which gives the player 2 shots.


• As an addition, a player has bonus shots on the admiral's behalf - if the admiral stands on an aircraft carrier, the bonus is 3 shots, if he resides on a destroyer, the bonus is 1 shot.


• In every turn, a player can (after making all available "normal" shots) either take advantage of the admiral bonus shots, or move the admiral to any other ship except a submarine.


• If the ship which is hosting the admiral is sunk, the admiral dies too and his owner (player) loses the possibility of bonus shots.


• In order to eliminate the white (starting) player's advantage, he can use (during the first move) only shots of aircraft carriers and submarine, not destroyers.


• The game ends when one player cannot make more than 2 shots in one turn - his fleet is too weakened and decides to retreat.

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Just a side note - the answer to my question "how can the admiral jump from a sinking ship to another one over the whole board?" is "he is using a helicopter".

This game has been suggested by Mark Steere who is the creator of many interesting board games and offers all of them for a free implementation on game sites (you can find more games at MarkSteereGames.com page).

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INTRODUCTION Rush is a territory game which is played with a Go set. Any size board with an odd number of rows and an odd number of columns can be substituted for the Go board. Play begins on an empty board, as shown in Figure 1. Each player takes possession of all of the stones of one color. Draws and ties cannot occur in Rush. Mark Steere designed Rush in May, 2007.

STONE PLACEMENT Players take turns placing their own stones on unoccupied points. A “connection” in Rush is formed when a stone is placed horizontally or vertically adjacent to an on-board stone. If a player adds a stone which forms either no connections or only one connection (to either color stone), that player’s turn is concluded.

A player may place a stone on the board which forms two or more connections only if at least one of those connections is made with an enemy stone.

A player may never, under any circumstances, place a stone which forms two or more connections with his own stones and no connections with any enemy stones. Figure 2 shows all of the legal placements available to White, marked with W’s.

If a player forms two or more connections with his newly added stone, he is required to add another stone to the board while it is still his turn. He must continue to add stones during his turn until his most recently placed stone forms less than two connections, or until there are no more placements available to him, at which time his turn is concluded.

Each player will always have at least one placement available at the outset of his turn, and must make at least one placement on his turn.

A player is never required to make a placement which forms two or more connections unless his only available placements each form two or more connections.

Figures 3a through 3c show a series of stones added by White during one of White’s turns. Each placement is marked with a W.

OBJECT OF THE GAME When the board is completely filled with stones, the player with the majority of stones on the board wins.

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Comments please. From my point of view, I like all game ideas which don't require any absurd license fees, and I like to support all authors who like this idea as well. Our experiences from the past confirm that this is the best approach.

Although BrainKing already supports 123 different games and one would think that it could be enough for everyone, every good proposal of a new game (which can be implemented later) is always welcome. And this is another game suggestion by Andy Lewicki.

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Name of the game: Num Bears

1. 100 tiles arranged in 10x10 square


2. Numbers from 0-9 are distributed randomly on these tiles.


3. Two players, one at the South side, the other on the North.


4. 4. South (S) starts first and can take two tiles from the first row on his south site OR one tile from his site and one from the North's first row according to the rule explained below ... taking two tiles from the opponent's site is NOT permitted.


5. tiles can be taken if: two tiles taken add up to 10 (9+1, 8+2, etc) OR have the same face value (6+6, 2+2, etc).


6. There are two SPECIAL pairs of tiles:
1. (5+5) belongs to the group that add up to 10 AND to the group of the same face value and counts for 20 points.
2. 0 (zero) counts as 10 points and can be taken individually OR as a pair and counts 20 points.


7. At every moment of the game, available tiles to be taken by either player are those completely open at the bottom of their site and at the top of opponent's site.


8. If a player has no available tiles to play, he has to pause, and the other player makes a move.


9. If the second player has no available move, the game ends and the player with more collected points wins.

The whole idea in this game is to be careful when taking tiles, every taken tile exposes another tile which can be used by the opponent to his advantage. Two major ways of taking tiles coupled with 20 open tiles create the whole range of possible plays and strategy that can be utilized.

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Well, it seems to be another nice member of the Knight Fight family. When I have some free time, I want to try it out.

This is a proposal of the third (and final) "knight game" created by Andy Lewicki. Since the original Knight Fight has become a really popular game (currently the 19th most played game out of 120 total), there is a good change that people will like its variants as well.

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This game, named Knights 64, is full of fierce exchanges of blows, however, during the game there are quiet waters suddenly intertwined with rapid falls. I think in this game I achieved a good balance and elegance ... this is a game with equal chances for both side:

1. Board 8x8 is used.


2. Two Knights of different color.


3. 8 sets of numbers from 1 to 8 (which give sum of 64) are distributed randomly across the board before the game starts (so we will have 8 8s, 8 7s ... and 8 1s).


4. Play starts by white player as usually at the bottom of the board and black respond in the same manner.


5. Knights collect points as they jump and they are not allowed to jump to an empty square or within a reach of opponent's jump (everything looks familiar so far).


6. Goal is to reach 64 points or more as the first player with following clarification:
   • When black player reaches 64 (or more) game ends immediately.
   • When white player reaches 64 (or more), white has to "hold his horses" and wait, black has one more move! And only after this last move winner is the one who got more points, the game also ends when either of the players has no more moves available, just like in Knight Fight, and the one with more points wins the game.


7. Now, about some excitements:
   • Every digit appears 8 times on the board.
   • The first 4 of each of them are collected without any consequences.
   • When either of the players collect 5th of any digit, he collects automatically 6th,
     same is with 7th in each category and the 8th belongs to the owner of the 7th (both numbers, 5h and 6th as well as 7th and 8th disappear from the board).

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