Trinity (Library)
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Trinity is a New Zealand designed and published abstract strategy game for 2 players. The game is played on a 4 by 4 square grid, which is marked a-d on the horizontal axis and 1-4 on the vertical axis for record keeping.
There are three types of pieces, which are identical for black and white. First are the ORBS, which are circular pieces with red, yellow, green or blue in the center. The second type of pieces are ARCS, which have a stripe of color matching those of the orbs. The arcs are 120 degrees in extension, so three arcs fit around an orb. HALOS are the third piece type, and are either white or black. They are rings which fit outside the orbs and arcs. There are four orbs, four arcs and six halos of each color, made of plastic.
The orbs are set up on the 1 and 4 rows with the matching color arcs with those orbs. Play consists of each player moving one orb one square horizontally, vertically or diagonally. The matching color of arc MUST be then moved. Arcs can move to any other legal square on the board.
The easiest way to win is to trap an opposing orb with three arcs of any color around it (an Arc-win). If you can box in your opponents orbs so that he has no valid moves, then you have gained an Orb-win. Finally, if you can move your four pieces inside four halos of your own color you have completed a halo win. A draw is an option through player agreement or stalemate from repeated moves.
A halo is "earned" by moving three of your arcs so that they form a complete ring, with no orbs inside it. The arcs then attack the opposing pieces of the same strip color as the arcs.
Tripoley (Library)
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A standard deck playing card game played with a special layout (or board) and poker chips. It is a modern version of the game of Poch. Each hand has three phases: "Hearts", "Poker", and "Michigan Rummy". All cards are dealt out, including one extra hand which remains unseen. Players place chips in the spaces for the special combinations on the playing mat/board, the "Poker" pot, and the "Kitty". The first phase pays off for holding certain cards or combinations (that match the combinations on the playing layout/board). The second phase is a hand of poker; each player selecting five cards from his hand to play. A hand of Poker betting takes place, with bets added to the "Poker" pot, and the winner wins the "Poker" pot. In the third phase, players play a slight variation of the game of Michigan (similar to Fan Tan), and the first to go out wins the chips in the "Kitty".
The book Games We Play pictures a version of Poch published in ~1830 in Nuremberg by Verlag Fr Scharrer. From this illustration we can see the evolution of Pope Joan to Poch, which was further refined into the Tripoley we see today.
This game is a Public Domain game known as Michigan Rummy. This name comes from the third phase where the standard deck playing card game of Michigan ("Stops Family") is played. Michigan Rummy should not be confused with the game of 500 Rum and its variation called Michigan Rum from the Rummy Family.
The spots on the board are 10-J-Q-K-A of Hearts (5 spots), 8-9-10 all one suit (one spot), Q-K of Hearts (one spot), and the Kitty.
Trivial Pursuit: 2000s (Library)
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New edition of the classic trivia game this time testing your knowledge of the 2000s.
Features some new gameplay including seeing the topic of a question and choosing to new "stump your opponents" if you think they can't answer a question based on that topic or if you're not confident of your abilities in that topic.
Love the 2000s? Prove it with the Trivial Pursuit: 2000s Edition game. This fun game features 300 trivia cards with 1800 questions from 6 categories, including Places, Entertainment, Events, The Arts, Science and Tech, and Sports and Hobbies. With updated gameplay, this edition is not the Trivial Pursuit game from the past. Now, players can choose to answer a question or stump their opponents based on the topic at the top of each card. The first player to collect each color wedge and answer a final question wins. The Trivial Pursuit: 2000s edition game sure makes for a great game night with family and friends!
Troll & Dragon (Library)
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Troll and Dragon, will you dare steal the Dragon's treasure?
Troll and Dragon is a push your luck game where players will try to collect as many gems as possible.Our little thiefs can decide to stay in the Troll's cave and collect some diamonds, easy peasy. Some might dare open the door that lead to the Dragon's room.
The Dragon's room is an amazing place, full of golden nuggets. Once you get there, the frenezy starts around the table. You can now throw the precious golden dice, roll them as much as you can to collect as many golden nuggets as possible. But beware, other players are rolling the dragon dice, trying to wake the legendary beast up to make you lose all treasures. Will you stop in time, who is the best and more discret thief around the table?
On your turn, roll the dice as many times as you want, as long as you have something to score. If you roll a key and a door, you can go to the Dragon's room. Once there, roll dice as much as you want but if your opponents roll 2 dragon faces on their dice, you will lose everything you gathered.
Troll and dragon is a frenetic and very fun game for the whole family to play!
Trouble (Library)
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This is the game with the Pop-O-Matic dice roller. It's a simplified Pachisi variant in which only one die is rolled per turn.
The game is abstract, each player has set of pawns of his color. Each turn player rolls a die using the Pop-O-Matic and selects one of his pawns to move. Pawns can enter the track from Home base only on a roll of six. Each pawn needs to travel around the board and finish on the Finish lane. If pawn of another player is bumped, the bumped pawn is returned to home. The goal is to be the first one to get all the pawns to the Finish lane.
For advanced players, we suggest that when a piece gets bumped, it should only be bumped back to its START space, rather than to its HOME. Only when bumped from their START space are pieces sent HOME.
Ubongo 3D (Library)
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Newest addition to the Ubongo series. This time players place wooden tiles over two layers in 2-sided puzzle cards, one side for beginner players and one for more advanced ones. Players collect gemstones for their performance and player with the most valuable gem collection at the end wins the game.