"Tables (board game) Tables is a general name given to a class of board games similar to backgammon, played on a board with two rows of 12 vertical markings called ""points"". Players roll dice to determine the movement of pieces. Tables games are among the oldest known board games, and many variants are played throughout the world. The ancient Egyptians played a game called Senet, which belonged to the same family of ""race games"" as modern tables games, with moves controlled by the roll of dice as early as 3500 BC. The Royal Game of Ur, played in ancient Mesopotamia,"
"French game ""triomphe"" (Spanish "" triunfo"") used four suits one of which was randomly selected as trumps. It was this game that became extremely popular in Western Europe in the 16th century and is ancestral to many modern card games. The English word is first documented in 1529 as the name of a card game which would develop into Ruff and Honours and ultimately Whist. In German, the term is attested as ""Triumph"" in 1541; the modern German spelling ""Trumpf"" is recorded from 1590. In French, ""triomphe"" remained the name of the game, while the trump suit was called ""atout"","
"Friedrich (board game) Friedrich (after the German name of Frederick II of Prussia) is a strategic board game about the events of the Seven Years' War. It was created by Richard Sivél, published in 2004, and won the prize for the ""Best Historical Simulation"" by ""Games"" magazine in 2006. Three to four players command the nations that were involved in the war: Prussia (Frederick the Great), Russia (Tsarina Elizabeth), Austria (Maria Theresa), and France (Madame de Pompadour). In addition to those, Sweden, Hanover and the Imperial Army are also part of the game. The game is set on a map"
"Bid Euchre Bid Euchre, Auction Euchre, Pepper or Hasenpfeffer, is the name given to a group of card games played in North America based on the game Euchre. It introduces an element of bidding in which the trump suit is decided by which player can bid to take the most tricks. The primary differences are the number of cards dealt, absence of any undealt cards, the bidding and scoring process, and the addition of a no trump declaration. It is typically a partnership game for four players, played with a 24, 32 or 36-card pack, or even two decks of"
"odd years in Madrid). Friedrich (board game) Friedrich (after the German name of Frederick II of Prussia) is a strategic board game about the events of the Seven Years' War. It was created by Richard Sivél, published in 2004, and won the prize for the ""Best Historical Simulation"" by ""Games"" magazine in 2006. Three to four players command the nations that were involved in the war: Prussia (Frederick the Great), Russia (Tsarina Elizabeth), Austria (Maria Theresa), and France (Madame de Pompadour). In addition to those, Sweden, Hanover and the Imperial Army are also part of the game. The game is"
"(earth) and Pünct (the interconnectivity of the brain). These elements are brought together in Gipf. Most of the games in the series can be played free online (for example, at BoardSpace.net) or against freely available computer opponents. ""GIPF"" derives from the German word for a mountain summit (""Gipfel"") where the original game was conceived. Subsequent games were named to include one vowels and 4 consonants, but to otherwise remain unrelated to existing language. ""Tzaar"" is the only game deviating from these naming conventions, due to disputes with the game publisher. GIPF project The GIPF Project is an award-winning series of"
"Einwerfen Einwerfen or Zählspiel is a German 8-card point-trick game for four players using a 32-card piquet pack or 32-card German-suited pack. Its closest relative is the popular Portuguese game Sueca. Perhaps the most basic and typical representative of the Ace-Ten card games (along with Elfern), this game was first described in 1873 but may be considerably older. Tens rank low. After cutting for trumps, all cards are dealt to the players in batches of 4, each receiving 8 cards. The standard rules of trick-play as in Whist apply. Any card may be led to a trick, subsequent players must"
"Mucken Mucken is a variation of the popular German card game, Schafkopf. However, unlike Schafkopf, it must always be played in teams of 2 players, so there are no Solo or ""Rufer"" (Caller) contracts. Mucken is mainly found in the province of Upper Franconia in the German state of Bavaria. Mucken is often played in Franconian restaurants, as it is part of the Franconian pub culture. The details of the rules vary greatly, even from village to village. Mucken is usually played with a short deck of Bavarian pattern playing cards (24 cards). Occasionally Franconian pattern cards and/or a long"
"Mensch ärgere Dich nicht Mensch ärgere Dich nicht is a German board game (but not a German-style board game), developed by Josef Friedrich Schmidt in 1907/1908. The game was issued in 1914 and sold about 70 million copies. It is a cross and circle game with the circle collapsed onto the cross, similar to the Indian game Pachisi, the Colombian game Parqués, the American games Parcheesi and Trouble, and the English game Ludo. The name of the game means ""Do not get angry"" (literally ""Do not get angry, man"" or ""Do not get angry, buddy""). The name derives from the"
"game was most popular in the Baltic States, East and West Prussia and Pomerania. In the Baltics, the game disappeared after the October Revolution, due to the expropriation, expulsion, and execution of the German noble families in 1917. In East Germany, several books were written about the game. Plastic game boards were made in the 1980s, with the name of the game changed to ""Sabo"" or ""Badari"". Das Bohnenspiel Bohnenspiel (""the bean game"") is a German mancala game described in the 1937 ""Deutsche Spielhandbuch"". The field consists of two rows of six pits each. The game starts with six beans"
"or fourth round. Chicken Cha Cha Cha Chicken Cha Cha Cha (original German name: ""Zicke Zacke Hühnerkacke"") is a board game for two to four players from four years onwards. It was designed by Klaus Zoch and self-published. It was illustrated by Doris Matthäus. The game was awarded the special prize for children's games in the Spiel des Jahres competition in 1998. The game was released in several languages. The game consists of 24 egg-shaped plates with twelve pictures of chickens, rabbits, hedgehogs, flowers and other things to be found at a henhouse, two plates of every design, and twelve"
"over count as double penalty points. The player with the fewest penalty points is awarded 10 points. When every player is finished, the players deduct their penalty points, and a new round begins. The game proceeds this way until one player runs out of points. At this point, the game is over, and the player with the highest number of points left wins. Pack & Stack Pack & Stack (original German name: Zak Pak!) is a 2008 board game designed by Bernd Eisenstein. ""Pack & Stack"" is a game about moving, where players stack three-dimensional objects on top of each"
"name for the card game Tippen. The rules reproduced below are based on the description in ""Meyers Konversations-Lexikon"" of 1908; Poch was and is played in many variations with different details; the rules given here are not universal or binding like the rules of chess. Poch is a game of chance for 3 to 6 people, played with a deck of 32 or 52 French playing cards or, sometimes, German cards. Also needed is a ""Pochbrett"" (Poch board) with 9 pots or 'pools' into which are placed stakes for the ""Ace"", ""King"", ""Queen"", ""Jack"", ""Ten"", ""Mariage"", ""Sequence"" and ""Poch"". Before"
"Belle, Flux et Trente-et-Un Belle, Flux et Trente-et-Un, also called Les Trois Jeux or, in German, Dreisatz or Belle, Fluss und Einunddreißig, is an historical, gambling, card game that was widespread in France and Germany during the 17th and 18th centuries. As a relative of Brag and Poch, from which the game of Poker developed, it is of cultural-historical interest. The game is played with a pack of 52 French playing cards; in addition three coin dishes are needed for the stakes. Before the start of the game, each player puts an agreed amount of money into each of the"
"point each. The player with the most points wins. Reef Encounter Reef Encounter is a German-style board game first published in 2004. The game is played on 2, 3, or 4 separate boards, depending on the number of players, on which the players attempt to grow corals to feed to their parrotfish. Board space is limited, so the players' corals compete with one another for space. Corals are grown by placing polyp tiles on the board. The corals come in five different colors, and each color is weak or strong relative to each of the other colors—for example, red corals"
"Mauscheln Mauscheln, also Maus, Angehen or Vierblatt, is a gambling card game that resembles Tippen, which is commonly played in Germany and the countries of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire. The name Mauscheln means something like ""(secretive) talk"". According to ""Meyers Konversationslexikon"" of 1885 to 1892 the word ""Mauschel"" is derived from the Hebrew word ""moscheh"" ""Moses"", in Ashkenazi Herbrew ""Mausche, Mousche,"" and was a nickname for Jews; in Old German ""mauscheln"" means something like ""speak with a Jewish accent"" or haggle"". Today ""mauscheln"" is a synonym for ""scheme"", ""wheel and deal"", ""wangle"" or ""diddle"". Other names for the game include"
"Phutball Phutball (short for Philosopher's Football) is a two-player strategy board game described in Elwyn Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, and Richard K. Guy's ""Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays"". Phutball is played on the intersections of a 19×15 grid using one white stone and as many black stones as needed. In this article the two players are named Ohs (O) and Eks (X). The board is labeled A through P (omitting I) from left to right and 1 to 19 from bottom to top from Ohs' perspective. Rows 0 and 20 represent ""off the board"" beyond rows 1 and 19"
"Bottle Imp (card game) The Bottle Imp (or Flaschenteufel) is a trick-taking card game designed by Günter Cornett and based on the Robert Louis Stevenson short story ""The Bottle Imp"". It was first published in 1995 by Bambus Spieleverlag, and was re-released by Z-Man Games in 2010 under the name ""Bottle Imp."" It was re-published again by Stronghold Games in 2018. The game is played with a bottle token and a proprietary deck of thirty-seven cards with a total ordering from 1 to 37. A card will be one of three colors which act like suits and there is no"
"Unteransetzen Unteransetzen, Unteransetzen or Unterauflegen is an Austrian card game of the Domino family for 2-6 players that is played exclusively with German playing cards. The name means refers to the building of cards onto an Unter (the equivalent of the Jack in a French pack). It is a classic children's game. Although Domino-style games are common in Europe, the game known as Unteransetzen is only recorded in Austria where it is very popular in Salzburg and Upper Austria, but also played in every other state bar Tyrol. It has many variants: those in which the Unter of Hearts is"
"German Schafkopf German Schafkopf () is an old German card game and the forerunner of the popular modern games of Skat, Doppelkopf and Bavarian Schafkopf. Today it is hardly ever played in its original form, but there are a number of regional derivations. Schafkopf appears to have developed in the early nineteenth century, although it is not clear when its modern-day counterpart, sometimes called Bavarian Schafkopf emerged. In 1811, it is described as ""a cute little game with chalk and collection bag pennies"". In 1853, however, von Alversleben describes 'Schaafkopf' as being very common, especially with the lower classes perhaps"
"(in English: Bullying). In Portugal, a variation on this game is called ""Puque"" (reads as Poock, in English). The rules are almost the same, with the 2 replacing the 8 as the ""skip turn"" card. One must say Puque when one plays his next-to-last card, and doesn't have to say anything different from end with a Jack, still getting the double score. In Slovakia the game is called Faraón (Pharaoh). It is the same as in the Czech Republic with the following exceptions: A Swiss version of the game called ""Tschau Sepp"" (""Bye Joe"", because that is what you have"
"Blue Max (board game) Blue Max is a multi-player board game of World War I aerial combat over the Western Front during 1917 and 1918. Each player is a fighter pilot of the British, French, American, or German air service. Each game is a single dogfight, in which players try to shoot down as many enemy planes as possible without being shot down themselves. There is no limit to the number of players in a single game. It was first published by Game Designers Workshop (GDW), in 1983. The game is named after the prestigious German order Pour le Mérite,"
"Bester Bube Bester Bube, Bester Bauer, Fiefkarten (Holstein) or Lenter (East Frisia) is an historical, German card game for 3-6 players played with a Piquet pack. It is one of the Rams group of card games characterised by allowing players to drop out of the current game if they think they will be unable to win any tricks or a minimum number of tricks. The game is recorded in 19th century in German game anthologies, appearing as early as 1802 in a Holstein dialect dictionary (as ""Lenter"" and ""Besten Buur"") and in 1808 in ""Das neue königliche l'Hombre"" (as ""Bester"
"Goofspiel Goofspiel, also known as The Game of Pure Strategy or GOPS, is a card game for two or more players. It was invented by Merrill Flood while at Princeton University in the 1930s, and Alex Randolph describes a similar game as having been popular with the 5th Indian Army during the Second World War. The game is simple to learn and play, but has some degree of strategic depth. It is commonly used as an example of multi-stage simultaneous move game in game theory and artificial intelligence. Goofspiel is played using cards from a standard deck of cards, and"
"Pack & Stack Pack & Stack (original German name: Zak Pak!) is a 2008 board game designed by Bernd Eisenstein. ""Pack & Stack"" is a game about moving, where players stack three-dimensional objects on top of each other. The game can be played by three to six players. Every player starts out with 75 points. On each round, the each player rolls a set of five colour-coded dice, which then determine how many items the player must take. The items vary in length from 1 to 5 units. The player then draws two cards, representing moving trucks, from a pile,"
"Tippen Tippen, also known as Dreiblatt, Drei Karten or Labet, is an historical German 3-card, plain-trick game which was popular as a gambling game for three or more players. In Denmark essentially the same game was known as Trekort. The game was described in 19th century anthologies and encyclopedias but appears related to 3-card Loo, which was already described in the 18th century. In some locations the game was illegal. In 1821, a very brief description of the game appears in ""Das neue Königliche l'Hombre"" as Drei Karten (""Three Cards"") along with a variant called Loup or Wolf (""loup"" being"
"Elfern Elfern, also known as Figurenspiel or Elfmandeln, is a German and Austrian 6-card, no-trump, trick-and-draw game for two players using a 32-card piquet pack. The object is to win the majority of the 20 honours: the ace, king, queen, jack and ten. Elfern is a primitive German game, similar to Bohemian Schneider, which was described in 1862 as ""the simplest drinking game"", the winner of the majority of honours, earning the ""right of drinking from the glasses of his opponents."" Although the game was first mentioned in the 19th century, David Parlett suggests that its non-trump nature points to"
"included traditional as well as modern board games. Other board games such as Backgammon, Scrabble and Risk are also played professionally with dedicated world championships. The Ancient Indian game of Pachisi was brought to the west by the British in the 1863 and an adaptation of the game named Parcheesi was first copyrighted in the United States by EG Selchow & Co in 1869. A version of the game called Ludo was patented in 1896. A similar German race game, Mensch ärgere dich nicht (""Man, don't get annoyed""), became immensely popular with German troops during World War I. Another Indian"
"Hooop! Hooop! is a 2008 board game designed by Adam Kałuża. The game is for two to four players. ""Hooop!"" is a game about frogs hopping on lily pads in a pond. Each player receives three frogs of a specific colour. The board consists of 25 lily pads arranged in a 5×5 rectangular grid. Each player's frogs start from the player's own base at his/her edge, and the object of the game is to get all three frogs to the bases on the edges belonging to the other players. The lily pads are connected by wooden plank bridges. Each time"
"Fox games Fox games are a category of board games for two players, where one player is the fox and tries to eat the geese/sheep, and the opposing player directs the geese/sheep and attempts to trap the fox, or reach a destination on the board. In another variant, ""Fox and Hounds"", the fox merely tries to evade the hounds. There are several versions known: in Britain (""Fox and geese""), France (""Renard et les poules""), Italy (""Lupo e pecore""), Germany (""Fuchs und Gänse"", ""Fuchs und Henne""), Netherlands (""Schaap en wolf""), Sápmi (""riebantablu""), Sweden (""Rävspel""), Iceland (""Refskák""), Slovakia (""Vlci a ovce""), Russia"
"for the most part, German-style board games, with a few notable exceptions (Tichu, Go, Can’t Stop). Some of the more notable games available are several Spiel des Jahres winners: and Deutscher Spiele Preis winners: BrettspielWelt was nominated for a Webby Award in 2004. It won the People's Voice Award for best Game site. BrettspielWelt BrettspielWelt (often abbreviated BSW) is a large, popular, and free German online gaming site. Its name translates as ""Boardgame World."" It contains online versions of over 70 popular classical and modern board games and card games, such as Backgammon, Bluff, Carcassonne, Can't Stop, Go, Settlers of"
"Wahoo (board game) Wahoo is a cross and circle board game similar to ""Parchisi"" that involves moving a set number of marbles around the board, trying to get them into the safety zone. The game is alleged to have originated in the Appalachian hills, but it is nearly identical to Mensch Ärgere Dich Nicht, a German board game originating in 1907. Most boards are used by four to six players. ""Wahoo"" has been a popular game for decades. Even today, custom-made boards proliferate on eBay and game manufacturer Parker Brothers has sold their own version of the game, under the"
"Chicken Cha Cha Cha Chicken Cha Cha Cha (original German name: ""Zicke Zacke Hühnerkacke"") is a board game for two to four players from four years onwards. It was designed by Klaus Zoch and self-published. It was illustrated by Doris Matthäus. The game was awarded the special prize for children's games in the Spiel des Jahres competition in 1998. The game was released in several languages. The game consists of 24 egg-shaped plates with twelve pictures of chickens, rabbits, hedgehogs, flowers and other things to be found at a henhouse, two plates of every design, and twelve octagonal plates with"