Gigamic Lautapelit - sivu 2

In Pylos, you want to be the one to place the last ball at the top of the pyramid. Sounds simple enough, right?

At the start of the game, each player has fifteen marbles, either light or dark, and they take turns placing them on a sixteen-well game board in a 4x4 grid shape. When four balls are placed next to each other in a square, a ball can be placed on top of them, forming another game level. Players can then place marbles on this second level, which eventually allows a marble to be placed on the third level. When that level is full, requiring only four balls, a final ball can be placed on the fourth level and that player wins the game.

Quixo is superficially similar to Tic-Tac-Toe - with one player setting crosses and the other circles, both trying to create a line with their symbol - but that's where the similarity ends. The pieces in the game are dice that have a circle on one side, a cross on the other, and blank faces on the other four; to set up the game, players place the 25 dice blank side up on the 5x5 grid on the game board.

The abstract strategy game Quoridor is surprisingly deep for its simple rules. The object of the game is to advance your pawn to the opposite edge of the board. On your turn you may either move your pawn or place a wall. You may hinder your opponent with wall placement, but not completely block him off. Meanwhile, he is trying to do the same to you. The first pawn to reach the opposite side wins.

To win Squadro, you need to be the first player to make a return trip with four of your five pieces.

Each player starts with their five pieces in troughs on their side of the game board, with players sitting perpendicular to one another. When you move a piece, you move it a distance based on the strength indicated in the trough that you're leaving. Once the piece has made its way across the board, you move it back based on the strength on the other side. If you pass over an opposing piece while moving, then that opposing piece must return to its last departing base and your moving piece advances one cell further than where the opposing piece was.