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Settlers of Catan is a multiplayer board game designed by Klaus Teuber. It was first published in 1995 in Germany by Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. (Kosmos) under the name Die Siedler von Catan. Settlers was the first German-style board game to achieve popularity outside Europe, and has been called the "killer app" of designer board games. Over 11 million games in the Catan series have been sold, and the game has been translated into twenty-five languages from the original German. The...

Spectrangle is a triangular tile-based abstract strategy game invented by Alan John Fraser-Dackers, Maxwell Graham Gordon and Lester Wynne Jordan. The principles behind the game are based on the work of British mathematician Percy Alexander MacMahon. The original game was for up to 8 players and used 60 tiles. A later more compact version for up to four players uses 36 tiles. It is this version that is described here. The game uses colourful double-sided triangular playing tiles called trangs....

L2 Design Group was established in 2001. Its primary business activity is to publish strategy games. The company focuses on manufacturing products that set a new standard in physical quality, graphics and playability in the military strategy game market. Since then, L2 Design Group has published The Russian Campaign, Deluxe Bitter Woods and Russia Besieged. The Russian Campaign Expansion Kit, Deluxe Bitter Woods Expansion kit and ADC modules are also in print. L2 Design Group also produces...

Statis Pro Baseball was a strategic baseball simulation board game. It was created by Jim Barnes in 1970, named after a daily newspaper column he wrote for an Iowa morning newspaper, and published by Avalon Hill in 1978, and new player cards were made for each new season until 1992. A licensing dispute with Major League Baseball led Avalon Hill to cease production of new cards. The game, however, came with instructions for players to create their own cards, so each year many people produce...

Contigo is a 1974 board game designed by Frank Thibault and published by 3M as part of their bookshelf game line. The game is playable by between 2 and 4 players, and is similar to both Mancala and Checkers.

RPGQuest is a Brazil adventure board game, created by Marcelo Del Debbio. The game is designed for children of ages 8-10 as an introduction to role-playing game The basic game has 7 fantasy races and 8 character class to choose from, over 120 paper fold-out miniature figure, 30 rooms and corridors and dozens of props.

Puerto Rico is a German board game designed by Andreas Seyfarth, and published in 2002 by Alea in German and by Rio Grande Games in English. Players assume the roles of colonial governors on the island of Puerto Rico during the age of Caribbean ascendancy. The aim of the game is to amass victory points, mainly by shipping goods to the Old World or by constructing buildings. Puerto Rico can be played by three to five players, although an official two player variant also exists. There is an...

Escape from Atlantis is a board game that portrays the sinking of Atlantis and the attempts by the population to escape the sinking island. It was originally released in the USA under the title of Survive! and first published in 1982. Escape from Atlantis, originally released in the USA under the title Survive!, is a board game first published in 1982 in the English language by Parker Brothers. Survive! was also marketed in Canada, Italy, Spain, and in many other countries. In 1986,...

Make Your Own-opoly is a board game manufactured by TDC Games. Based on the popular board game Monopoly, it allows one to customize the game's various attributes using a PC program and a color printer. The game won the 2001 Hobby Outlook "Educational Item of the Year" award. The game includes: Many game features that were present in the original version of Monopoly have been removed in Make Your Own-opoly. These include:

Railway Rivals is a railway development-themed board game designed by Glynn and David Watts and popularised by Games Workshop in 1985. Players build railways and then run trains along them. The game is in two stages; in the first part players draw tracks on the card using washable finetip pens (allowing the board to be cleaned for reuse). Players have a building allowance each turn; building through difficult terrain costs more moves. Players earn money for connecting cities to their railway...

This article is about the board game. For more meanings, see Ludo. "Ludi" redirects here. For other uses, see Roman festivals. Ludo (from Latin ludus, "game") is a simple board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to die rolls. The game is a simplification of the traditional India Cross and Circle game Pachisi, and it originally appeared in 1896. The game was patent in England. In the Caribbean, where the game is popular, it...

Vegas Showdown is a board game for players aged 12 and above. From the publisher:Build your own hotel/casino by bidding against the other players to acquire tiles that represent slot machines, lounges, restaurants, and other casino-related places. Put those tiles on your player board, which represents your own customized casino. The tiles will allow you to increase your revenue, services, and fame. The player who builds the most famous hotel/casino wins the game.

Risk: Star Wars Original Trilogy Edition is a commercial strategic board game, produced by Parker Brothers, a division of Hasbro. It is a variation of the classic board game Risk, with the rules and appearance altered to fit within the fictional Star Wars universe, during the Galactic Civil War (Episodes 4, 5, and 6) period. It was released in November of 2006, almost two years after the release of Star Wars Risk: The Clone Wars Edition Unlike the generic armies differentiated only by their...

Arab-Israeli Wars is a tactical level wargame published in the US in 1977 by Avalon Hill and simulates at a tactical level various battles in the Suez Crisis, Six Day War and Yom Kippur War. It is designed to be played by two players and game length is dependent on scenario but ranges from 2-4 hours. Arab-Israeli Wars was adapted by Russell Vane and Seth Carus from the highly successful Panzer Leader and Panzerblitz which are tactical simulations of tank warfare on the Western and Eastern...

Tales of the Crystals is an interactive children's fantasy role playing game, aimed mostly towards young girls (ages 8 and up). It was published in 1993 by Milton Bradley Company. The game contains an audio cassette that gives the players certain tasks to do to guide them through four different adventures. There are also cards that list various tasks as well. The game also contains a few props to add to the excitement of the game such as "magic" crystals and a journal that the players can use...