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Hexagames
Hexagames was a German game publisher in Dreieich, which existed from 1982 to 1992. It was one of the most famous German game publishers of the 1980s, notable for publishing games such as ''Lines of Action'' (1988) and ''Cosmic Encounter'' (1992). History ''Hexagames'' was created by Langden Hensley, with the trademark being registered by the German Patent and Trademark Office in late 1982. In 1982, he and Jürgen Hagedorn released the game '' Long Short'', developed by Hensley. After the game publisher Bütehorn went bankrupt around 1982, Hexagames included several of their games in its program. Hagedorn retired from Hexagames in 1988. Joe Nikisch, the founder of the board game company , was responsible for the product range of Hexagames as product manager beginning in 1986. After the dissolution of Hexagames in 1992, the Berlin games manufacturer Sala took over some of the games under the ''Salagames'' label''.'' Salagames also disappeared from the market after about two ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Career Poker
''Career Poker'' is a card game originally published in Germany as ''Karriere Poker'' in 1988 by Hexagames. Description ''Career Poker'' is a hierarchical shedding game, card shedding game for 4–8 players in which players try to become the company boss and avoid becoming the dishwasher. The game uses a deck with 8 suits of 13 cards each and four wild cards. The wild cards can be used as any rank; if played without any normal cards, the wild card counts as the highest card in the deck. Gameplay The deck is shuffled, and 13 cards are dealt to each player. The first player leads any single card or set of cards that are identical (two 7s, three 10s, etc.), and can use one or more wild cards to complete a set. The next player to the left may either pass or raise. In order to raise, the player must lay down the same number of matching cards as the first player laid down, but they must be higher in rank. The next player has the same option of pass or raise, but this time, the cards m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Can't Stop Express
''Can't Stop Express'' (also published as ''Choice'') is a board game published in 1989 by Hexagames in which players strategize and score points using dice combinations. History ''Can't Stop Express'' was designed by American board game designer Sid Sackson, as a re-publishing of Choice/Einstein, which was a republishing of his previously created game Solitaire Dice, first published in '' A Gamut of Games'' (1969). It was originally published by Hexagames until their closure in 1992, but is currently published by Eagle-Gryphon Games. Gameplay At the start of every turn, five dice are rolled. Each player decides individually which four dice to use to make two pairs with the highest sums, which are recorded on their score sheet. The "5th die" is also recorded in a separate space on the sheet. This has eight spaces for recording occurrences of that written die value as the 5th die. On following turns, players can either check off one of their written 5th die numbers or choo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abilene (board Game)
''Abilene'' is a western board game designed by Roland Siegers. It was published in 1984 by Hexagames and re-published in 1993 by Schmidt Spiele. It is set in the city of Abilene during 1870, which at the time was considered the main transshipment point for the herds of the Texan cattle barons. In the game, each player plays as a rancher who, with the help of their cowboy A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks. The historic American cowboy of the late 19th century arose from the '' vaquer ...s, drives their herds to Abilene, trying to capture parts of their opponents' herds along the way. Gameplay In a three-player game, each player begins the game with nine herds—three diseased and marked with a notch on their bellies—and $2000 in banknotes. Players choose which starting spaces to place each cattle, not indicating where the diseased cat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uisge
''Uisge'' (pronounced: ''wisk'', Scottish Gaelic: for ''water''), also known as ''Skorpion'', is a strategy board game created by and published in 1984 by Hexagames in which two players attempt to be the first to flip all their playing stones on a rectangular grid. Gameplay ''Uisge i''s a game played on a rectangular game board consisting of 42 squares. The game utilizes twelve round stone game pieces, divided equally between white and black, with each piece having one blank side and one side with a crown. At the beginning of the game, all stones are placed on the board with the blank side facing up. Similar to chess,''the player controlling the white pieces takes the first turn, followed by the player controlling the black pieces.'' On a player's turn, a stone can be moved in one of two ways: * Jump: A piece may jump over a neighbouring own or an opponent's piece in a horizontal or vertical direction, provided the landing space is empty. The jumping stone is flipped, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Monday (card Game)
''Black Monday'' is a card game published in 1988 by Hexagames. Contents ''Black Monday'' is a game in which each players use cards to represent shares of stock and how they can fall or rise. Reception Brian Walker reviewed ''Black Monday'' for '' Games International'' magazine, and gave it 3 stars out of 5, and stated that "The game is fun to play and quite skillful when played with three or four; any more and it's pretty random. Not one of Sid's best, though." Paul Brady for '' The Guardian'' said "It is a simple card game, easy to pick up, but can be fast and furious when you have the knack." Barry Ellis, writing in ''The Game Report'', noted "Practically any game by Sid Sackson is a joy to play, as it invariably has simple rules yet ample opportunities abound for serious decision making and player interaction." Regarding ''Black Monday'', Ellis admitted, "This is not one of his best efforts, but I'm currently finding it to be entertaining, and perhaps more importantly, I ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Römer (card Game)
''Römer'' is a card game published in 1990 by Hexagames. Contents ''Römer'' is a game in which players form a Roman chariot with six horses attached. Reception Philip A Murphy reviewed ''Römer'' for '' Games International'' magazine, and gave it a rating of 5 out of 10, and stated that "''Römer'' won't lie gathering dust in my cupboard: we'll play it now and again as a filler at the start of the evening while we're waiting for Alan ('Olympic Torch' – like the torch, he never goes out) to turn up, but a classic this is not." ''Römer'' was nominated for the 1990 Deutscher Spiele Preis. References {{reflist Card games introduced in 1990 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spiel Des Jahres
The Spiel des Jahres (, ''Game of the Year'') is an award for board and card games, created in 1978 with the purpose of rewarding family-friendly game design, and promoting excellent games in the German market. It is thought that the existence and popularity of the award was one of the major drivers of the quality of games coming out of Germany, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s. A ''Spiel des Jahres'' nomination can increase the typical sales of a game from 500–3,000 copies to around 10,000, and the winner can usually expect to sell as many as 500,000 copies. Award criteria The award is given by a jury of German-speaking board game critics from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, who review games released in Germany in the preceding twelve months. The games considered for the award are family-style games. War games, role-playing games, collectible card games, and other complicated, highly competitive, or hobbyist games are outside the scope of the award. Since 1989, there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Board Games
Board games are tabletop games that typically use . These pieces are moved or placed on a pre-marked board (playing surface) and often include elements of table, card, role-playing, and miniatures games as well. Many board games feature a competition between two or more players. To show a few examples: in checkers (British English name 'draughts'), a player wins by capturing all opposing pieces, while Eurogames often end with a calculation of final scores. ''Pandemic'' is a cooperative game where players all win or lose as a team, and peg solitaire is a puzzle for one person. There are many varieties of board games. Their representation of real-life situations can range from having no inherent theme, such as checkers, to having a specific theme and narrative, such as ''Cluedo''. Rules can range from the very simple, such as in snakes and ladders; to deeply complex, as in ''Advanced Squad Leader''. Play components now often include custom figures or shaped counters, and distinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reiner Knizia
Reiner may refer to: *Reiner (crater), a crater on the Moon, named after Vincentio Reiner *Reiner Braun, a fictional List_of_Attack_on_Titan_characters, character in the anime/manga series ''Attack on Titan'' People with the given name Reiner *Reiner Knizia, a board game designer *Reiner Schöne (born 1942), German actor People with the surname Reiner *Carl Reiner (1922–2020), American film director, screenwriter, actor and father of Rob Reiner *Charles Reiner (1884–1947), English cricketer *Daniel Reiner (born 1941), French politician *Franz Reiner (1912–?), Swiss sprint canoer *Fritz Reiner, early-20th-century Hungarian conductor *Grete Reiner (1885–1944), Czech-German magazine editor and writer *Herbert Reiner Jr., American diplomat *Ira Reiner, American lawyer and politician *Irving Reiner, American mathematician *Jared Reiner, American professional basketball player *Keani Reiner (1952–1994), Hawaiian surfer and sailor *Lucas Reiner (b. 1960), American painter, printm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Josef Lamminger
Franz may refer to: People * Franz (given name) * Franz (surname) Places * Franz (crater), a lunar crater * Franz, Ontario, a railway junction and unorganized town in Canada * Franz Lake, in the state of Washington, United States – see Franz Lake National Wildlife Refuge Businesses * Franz Deuticke, a scientific publishing company based in Vienna, Austria * Franz Family Bakeries, a food processing company in Portland, Oregon * Franz-porcelains, a Taiwanese brand of pottery based in San Francisco Other uses * ''Franz'' (film), a 1971 Belgian film * Franz Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language See also * Frantz (other) * Franzen (other) Franzen or Franzén is a Scandinavian surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Anders Franzén (1918–1993), Swedish underwater archaeologist * Arno Franzen, Brazilian rower *Arvid Franzen (1899–1961), Swedish-American accordionist and ... * Frantzen (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musketeers (game)
A musketeer (french: mousquetaire) was a type of soldier equipped with a musket A musket is a muzzle-loaded long gun that appeared as a smoothbore weapon in the early 16th century, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating plate armour. By the mid-16th century, this type of musket gradually d .... Musketeers were an important part of early modern warfare particularly in Europe as they normally comprised the majority of their infantry. The musketeer was a precursor to the rifleman. Muskets were replaced by rifles as the almost universal firearm for modern armies during the period 1850 to 1860. The traditional designation of "musketeer" for an infantry private survived in the Imperial German Army until World War I. Asia China The hand cannon was invented in China in the 12th century and was in widespread use there in the 13th century. It spread westward across Asia during the 14th century. Arquebusiers and musketeers were utilized in the armi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
