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LEMMATM invented by Kate Jones
Our most radical game: the players invent and play out non-contradictory rules. This game may bring out the logician or lawyer in you. It does strange things to your friends' demeanor, too. This can become a very vocal experience, since players may challenge new rules that are inconsistent with all previous rules! Four other games and over
300 topological puzzles are included. The 22" vinyl game mat has a dramatic pattern of nested grids in 3 colors plus black, matched to the 48 Lucite disks. Rolls up for storage in drawstring fabric sleeve. Suitable for 1 to 6 players, ages ingenious 12 to adult. |
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ROMBIX® ...invented and patented by Alan Schoen Games 100 selection, 1993 (here's the review.) ...Rombix consists of 16 tiles: four sizes of single rhombs that are the fundamental components of a 16-sided polygon, and twelve "twins" that are these four keystones joined in all possible concave pairs. (Did you know that any even-sided polygon can be cut up into rhombuses?) The elegant mathematics of this set will have it that these 16 tiles exactly fill the original polygon, called a circle. Thousands of arrangements are possible. The four colors are related by amazing proportions and congruences, and every successful tiling will also exhibit 8 ladders that span the circle's opposite sides. The booklet well documents, in layman's language, the many interesting paths of exploration Rombix invites. We make it in transparent tinted acrylics, in a black-framed 8½" tray. For 1 or 2 players, from mentally agile 12 to adult. |
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BRACE (and Embrace)TM ... created by Alan Kross-Vinson and Nine Men's Morris (Mühle)... traditional Chosen for "Games 100" list, 1998! (Here's the review.) ... Brace's striking board design has 3 path colors that determine how pieces may move. Your goal is to move pieces to "brace," or bracket, an opponent piece to gain points. Novel scoring cube tracks your lead: get 3 points ahead, you win. No captures, no removals. Alan's unique system of symmetrical set-up provides a different start position every time. Rules for four other games and some solitaires are included. The large (24") canvas gameboard can hang as a tapestry or banner. The 18 hand-inlaid acrylic disks, six each layered in three colors to match the board, reverse to 9 black and 9 white. For 1 and 2 players, ages 10 to adult. On Brace's reverse side, by popular demand, we offer Nine Men's Morris (35K), also known as Mühle...one of the oldest games known. The goal is to form rows of 3 pieces, which entitles you to remove one opponent piece from the board. Player with fewer than 3 pieces remaining loses. |
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Guest Appearance! MEGALLOTM ...invented by Telly Courialis Chosen for Games 100 list, 1998! (Here's the review.)...We found this game at a gaming convention and fell in love with its clean, distinctive style and logical structure. It's different from standard four-in-a-row games, even 3-D ones, in having only 3 kinds of winning position. The four plates represent layers in a cube. Players take turns placing chips on the spaces, but each player may be defining the order of the plates a different way, so visualizing all the possibilities makes for an intense bout. Numbered spaces earn bonus points. Clear lucite plates are held aloft by Telly's clever cantilevered design. A second game version, with a bit of luck thrown in, adds unpredictability and new tactics. For 2 players, ages 10 to adult. $25
Our current supply was made by Rex Games   
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INTARSIATM ....created by Henrik Morast, puzzles by Kate Jones On Games 100 list, December 2008 (review) Intarsia had its world premiere at the prestigious International Puzzle Party in August 2008 in Prague, the Czech Republic. |
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With just two types of tiles, the number of combinations of the tiles in their hexagonal tray reaches a mind-boggling 1024. The reversible trapezoidal tiles carry either a white or a black diamond, paired with a black or white triangle respectively (shown at right). Yet with all those possibilities, forming them into three-fold symmetries is elusively difficult. The reason: while their total area is equivalent to 96 unit triangles, the 32 tiles themselves don't divide into three equal parts. They merely contribute regions of color the puzzler must coax into