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List Of Japanese Board Games
This is a list of board games invented or developed in Japan. {, class="wikitable" , - ! Game name !! Year !! Origin !! Players !! Gameplay style !! Similar Games !! Reference , - , Love Letter, , 2012, , Kanai Factory, , 2–4, , , Risk and deduction game, , Coup, , , - , , , circa 850, , Traditional, , 2, , , Strategic abstract game played with Go pieces on a Renju board (15×15), goal to reach five in a row, , Renju, Four in a row, , , - , , , 1967, , Takara, , ?, , Japanese adaption of The Game of Life, , The Game of Life, , , - , , , 2012, , Grounding Inc., , 2–5, , Tabletop city-building/resource-gathering game using cards and dice, , Catan, , , - , , , 1899, , Traditional, , 2, , Strategic five-in-a-row game with equal chances for both players, , Pente, Gomoku, , , - , , , 1924, , Traditional, , 4, , Chinese Mahjong with Japanese rules, , Mahjong, , , - , , , 2005, , Game Republic , , 4–8, , Supernatural themed, strategic, secret team play , , Bang!, Mafia, , ... [...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] |
Shadow Hunters
is a social deduction board game designed by Yasutaka Ikeda that was first published in 2005 by Game Republic in Japan.http://bgame.jp/ The game was published in the United States by Z-Man Games in 2008. The art style of the game closely resembles the style found in Japanese anime and manga. Players are secretly assigned the role of a character belonging to one of three factions: Shadows, which are supernatural creatures of the night, Hunters, which are humans attempting to exterminate the Shadows, and Neutrals, which are unaffiliated characters who are caught in the crossfire with individual victory conditions. Each player does not know the identity or allegiance of any other player, and must use cards, negotiation, and guesswork to figure out who everyone else is. The game ends when one or more players have fulfilled their victory conditions. At this point all players who have fulfilled their objectives are declared winners, whether they are part of the same faction or eve ... [...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] |
Backgammon
Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards. It is the most widespread Western member of the large family of tables games, whose ancestors date back nearly 5,000 years to the regions of Mesopotamia and Persia. The earliest record of backgammon itself dates to 17th-century England, being descended from the 16th-century Irish (game), game of Irish.Forgeng, Johnson and Cram (2003), p. 269. Backgammon is a two-player game of contrary movement in which each player has fifteen piece (tables game), pieces, known traditionally as 'men' (short for 'tablemen') but increasingly known as 'checkers' in the US in recent decades. These pieces move along twenty-four 'point (tables game), points' according to the roll of two dice. The objective of the game is to move the fifteen pieces around the board and be first to ''bear off'', i.e., remove them from the board. The achievement of this while the opponent is still a long way behind results in a triple wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sugoroku
(literally 'double six') refers to two different forms of a Japanese board game: ''ban-sugoroku'' (盤双六, 'board-sugoroku') which is similar to western tables games like Backgammon, and ''e-sugoroku'' (絵双六, 'picture-sugoroku') which is similar to western Snakes and Ladders. Ban-sugoroku ''Ban-sugoroku'' is played in a similar way to western tables games. It has the same starting position as Backgammon, but the aim and rules of play are different. Compared with modern Backgammon: * Doubles are not special. If a player rolls doubles, each die still counts only once. * There is no "bearing off". The goal is to move all of one's men to within the last six spaces of the board. * There is no doubling cube. * "Closing out", that is forming a prime of six contiguous points with one or more of opponents men on the bar, is an automatic win. The game is thought to have been introduced from China (where it was known as Shuanglu) into Japan in the sixth century. It is known tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. The rules of chess as we know them today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no use of dice or cards. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shogi Variant
A shogi variant is a game related to or derived from shogi (Japanese chess). Many shogi variants have been developed over the centuries, ranging from some of the largest chess-type games ever played to some of the smallest. A few of these variants are still regularly played, though none are as popular as shogi itself. The drop rule, often considered the most notable feature of shogi, is absent from most shogi variants, which therefore play more like other forms of chess, with the board becoming less crowded as pieces are exchanged. This is especially true for variants larger than shogi itself − in fact, the largest well-known variant that features the drop rule is the 11×11 game wa shogi. Predecessors of modern shogi Some form of chess had almost certainly reached Japan by the 9th century, if not earlier, but the earliest surviving Japanese description of the rules of chess dates from the early 12th century, during the Heian period. Unfortunately, this description does not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shogi
, also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as Western chess, ''chaturanga, Xiangqi'', Indian chess, and '' janggi''. ''Shōgi'' means general's (''shō'' ) board game (''gi'' ). Western chess is sometimes called (''Seiyō Shōgi'' ) in Japan. Shogi was the earliest chess-related historical game to allow captured pieces to be returned to the board by the capturing player. This drop rule is speculated to have been invented in the 15th century and possibly connected to the practice of 15th century mercenaries switching loyalties when captured instead of being killed. The earliest predecessor of the game, chaturanga, originated in India in the sixth century, and the game was likely transmitted to Japan via China or Korea sometime after the Nara period."Shogi". ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. 2002. Shogi in its present form was played as early as the 16th century, while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mafia (party Game)
Mafia, also known as Werewolf, is a social deduction game, created by Dimitry Davidoff in 1986. The game models a conflict between two groups: an informed minority (the mafiosi or the werewolves), and an uninformed majority (the villagers). At the start of the game, each player is secretly assigned a role affiliated with one of these teams. The game has two alternating phases: first, a night role, during which those with night killing powers may covertly kill other players, and second, a day role, in which surviving players debate the identities of players and vote to eliminate a suspect. The game continues until a faction achieves its win condition; for the village, this usually means eliminating the evil minority, while for the minority this usually means reaching numerical parity with the village and eliminating any rival evil groups. History Dimitry Davidoff (russian: Дми́трий Давы́дов, ''Dmitry Davydov'') is generally acknowledged as the game's creator. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bang! (card Game)
''Bang!'' is a Spaghetti Western-themed social deduction card game designed by Emiliano Sciarra and released by Italian publisher DV Giochi in 2002. In 2004, ''Bang!'' won the Origins Award for Best Traditional Card Game of 2003 and Best Graphic Design of a Card Game or Expansion. The game is known worldwide as ''Bang!'', except in France, where it was known as ''Wanted!'' until September 2009. Overview The game is played by four to seven players (four to eight players with variants and expansions). Each player takes one of the following roles: * Sheriff (always 1) * Deputy (min. 0, max. 2) * Outlaw (min. 2, max. 3) * Renegade (min. 1, max. 2 with expansions) Each player also receives a unique character card with special abilities and a certain number of 'bullets' (i.e. life-points). The objective of the game is different for every role: * The Outlaws must kill the Sheriff; * The Sheriff and his Deputies must kill the Outlaws and the Renegade(s); * Each Renegade's objecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Game Republic
was an independent video game developer based in Tokyo, Japan. The company, which employed just under 300 individuals before its closure, was founded on July 1, 2003 by Yoshiki Okamoto after he departed from Japanese game developer and publisher Capcom. He began working at rival game developer and publisher Konami in the 1980s, and was responsible for such arcade games as ''Gyruss'' and ''Time Pilot''. He then moved to Capcom, where he worked on many franchises, such as ''1942'', ''Resident Evil'' and especially '' Street Fighter II''. While Game Republic was a completely independent developer able to produce titles for any publisher and/or platform they desire, during the company's early years it had enjoyed a close relationship with Sony , commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
