Building Games

3HOUSE is a little 28 page glossy booklet with rules for three games you can play with the pyramids in three Treehouse sets. Includes rules to Secret Project 3H-1, Martian Chess, and Binary Homeworlds.

These airships are majestic as they rise to the heavens. It took a long time before the work on these giants could begin. Engineers had to be employed, a hangar built, materials procured and sponsors found. At last the day has arrived and a giant airship starts its maiden flight towards the horizon.

In this exciting game the players use their skill to try to expand their own companies. In the end they will have created an impressive fleet of airships.

590BC. Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, marries the magnificent Amyitis, the king of Media’s daughter. But the beauty languishes for the lush vegetation of her land. Nebuchadnezzar wants to have splendid hanging gardens built for her. Now, the city is getting ready to take up the tremendous challenge which will leave an indelible mark for the centuries to come…The players embody noble Babylonians in quest of prestige. All along the game, they strive to raise their status by building gardens and their irrigation network, and by trading and recruiting. At the end of the game, the player with the highest prestige is the winner.

In accordance with the farmer's rules of ancient Roman provinces, players settle the fertile land with their houses. However, even the most luxurious houses are worthless without a reliable water supply. If a player does not supply his houses with water before the region they are in is completely developed, the residents – good or bad – must leave and the house does not hear the player any points.

The player who best uses clever tactics – along with a little luck – to place wells and canals at the right time while securing the best building spaces, will outmaneuver their opponents and win the game!

Each player is the owner of a water zoo. Each player tries to lure as many visitors as possible into his water zoo and earns points for the visitors that visit his zoo. To create a zoo that people want to visit, a player must collect animals. When a player’s water zoo is successful, he may want to expand it. When a player’s animal basins are full, he must place additional animals into his depot, which loses him points at game end. When a player makes skillful use of his coworkers, he can gain additional points. The player with most points wins.

The young, up-and-coming Roman kingdom needs a wide variety of things, but the one thing the big towns need above all the others is drinking water.

So experienced master builders and diligent workmen set about errecting mighty aquaducts to provide the people with water.

Use your skill to make sure that your workmen have access to the necessary master builders at all the times and are able to build the longest water system. However, all your achievements will receive less attention if the other players manage to transport the same amount of water to the town.

Players build a town in Ancient Greece in friendly competition with each another. But there is a catch. Each building must be surrounded by the appropriate scenery otherwise points are deducted.

Complete the blueprints and restore Blue Moon City to its former glory! Guide the peoples of Blue Moon in their efforts to rebuild their home and earn the favor of the elemental dragons. Prove that you have what it takes to be the leader of all the peoples of Blue Moon.

Who doesn't dream of owning a large mansion in the sun-drenched hills of California?

But before you can furnish the house, the interior must be created. Just as you have completed furnishing the first rooms, your curious neighbors begin to drop by, some bearing housewarming gifts. A good thing too, because victory will go to the one with the most beautifully renovated house and the largest collection of gifts!

It's a game about the great Canal building era of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that captures the feel of the period and gives players plenty of decision making in their attempts to complete some of the most famous British canals.

Players will engage brilliant engineers such as James Brindley and Thomas Telford in their efforts to create canals linking emerging manufacturing centres, providing the waterways that supplied the goods generated by the Industrial Revolution.

More than 2500 years ago, the emperor of the Qin dynasty decided to protect his prolific provinces of northern China from the frequent barbaric invasions, building and joining several fortified fortresses. So he made an impressive series of defensive walls that stretch for over 6000 kilometres. Armies of slaves and soldiers worked for centuries following and taking advantage of the terrain. Later, the Great Wall, as it was called, was extended and fortified, until it needed an army of a million of men to defend and maintain it. Its decline coincided with the advent of the Mongols, that later ruled the widest empire of human history. They broke the wall and moved around it, conquering the whole Chinese empire. Today the ruins represent one of the most remarkable works produced by men: Chang Cheng™, the Great Chinese Wall.

Cleopatra & the Society of Architects is a fun and engaging family game that includes a true, three-dimensional palace that players compete to build. Players strive to become the wealthiest of Cleopatra’s architects by constructing the most magnificent and valuable parts of her palace.

Players, however, will be tempted to deal with shady characters and trade in materials of dubious origins in order to help them build faster. While these corrupt practices might allow an architect to stay a step ahead of the rest, they come with a high price – cursed Corruption Amulets honoring Sobek, the Crocodile-god. When Cleopatra finally strolls into her new palace, at the end of the game, the most corrupt architect (the one with the most amulets) will be seized and offered as a sacrifice to her sacred crocodile! Only then will the wealthiest architect, from among those still alive, be selected and declared the winner of the game.

Building in New York City is booming and everyone wants to get in on the new fad - building that touch the sky: skyscrapers! Players compete to build their sky scrapers in the best locations, but what is a good location? One with shopping - and the more shopping, the better!

Players always have more to do than they may in this exciting game of building and bidding. Players place businesses, acquire building materials, and get bidding cards so they can later bid on the building spaces. When a player wins a bid, he erects his sky scrapers immediately! Building commissioners move about the city, deciding where building should be built and giving awards to players with good locations.

In this game, players incarnate clan leaders during the Golden Age of Easter Island. The board represents a simplified map of the island. Rock platforms are where the ahus (the rock platforms) Moaïs will be erected.

Your clan competes against others, and you will earn more prestige by building and transporting larger, more imposing Moaïs than your opponents' clans.

Each of your pawns represents a group of men. You can grow your population if you wish. You will choose each turn which part of your population will sculpt Moaïs and which other part will transport them, in cooperation with other players.

Statues are transported from the quarry to the ahus (the rock platforms) using paths made of pawns and the help of logs.

You can use your influence (Tribal Markers) to choose the best statues and mark to your color the statues you cannot achieve in your turn. You can also rely on your Sorcerer and his mighty powers, of the strength of your Chief, as well as on mystic powers of the Rongo writing tablets.

The winner will be the one who has erected the largest statues in the best places at the end of the game.

The Pharaoh Khufu and his descendants, Khafre and Menkaure, have commissioned three pyramids to be built. As an Egyptian pyramid builder in ancient Giza, you will try to construct the finest three pyramids using good quality stones and to fill the pyramids with as much treasure as possible. Your rivals may try to thwart you by sabotaging your pyramid with inferior stones, by demolishing your constructed levels or by releasing scarabs at your construction sites to scare away your workers. Perhaps you may need to do the same to your rivals so that your three pyramids will be the finest ones chosen by the Pharaohs for their after-life!

The hanging gardens were one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world, as all history courses teach. But, did they actually exist? Nothing remains of their reported splendor, which was built for the eyes of Amyitis.

Without an exact reference to follow, the 2-4 players will re-establish the hanging gardens according to their own tastes.

Card follows card with magnificent buildings, sparkling fountains, and exotic plants as the players work to rebuild the legendary gardens.

In the end, the queen will be pleasd and rewards the victory palm to the player whose work on the gardens most impresses her highness.

IceTowers is a high-speed game of pyramid stacking, played without turns on any flat surface. Everyone plays at once, by "capping" other pieces with those of their own color. If yours is the top piece on a tower at the end of the game, you get points for the whole tower. As towers grow taller, you'll be able to "mine" pieces out and replay them, or even "split" some towers in two. The game ends when no more plays are possible.

The object of the game in Key Harvest is to score the most points. Players score points by placing tiles on their own country board. Each player has the same board, but there is only one of each tile, so there is competition when two players want the same tile. One point is scored for each field tile in the player’s largest group of connected field tiles and two points for each tile in their second largest connected group.

A Keythedral is being built in the fields near Keytown, in the middle of the Keydom. The inhabitants of Keyland will gather the resources with which to build the Keythedral from the surrounding fields.

The Keythedral will be built in five stages and each stage will require different building materials. In the early stages simple materials will be needed, as the building nears completion, more specialized materials will be needed. Throughout the development period the builders will require food and water and, if they are lucky, the builders will also receive some wine.

The architect keeps changing his mind as to the design of the new Keythedral. As a result the resources which are now required from the workers has changed.

This bonus sheet of 8 new building tiles (worth 12 victory points each) are the perfect expansion for players that want a more unusual mix of resources and want to introduce a slightly more unpredictable scramble to the end of the game.

Building boom in Manhattan! But not only there! Sky-scrapers are springing up all around the world. Players also have the opportunity to build sky-scrapers in Sydney, Frankfurt, Hongkong, Sao Paulo, and Cairo. The question each turn is whether to increase the height of one of your own buildings, or to build onto someone else’s building, making it your building. At the end of every six turns, players score for having the tallest building, the most buildings per city, and for each building that a player owns. After four rounds, the player with the most points is the winner!

In medieval times, famous masons competed to build the most beautiful and impressive cities. As we can see from what they left behind, they were perfectionists, but each had his own ideas about the best ways to design cities. Stately government buildings stand next to noble palaces with massive walls and guard towers surrounding the city to protect it from its enemies.

In this beautiful game, the players take the rules of these master masons of old. At the beginning of the game, the board is empty, but quickly fills with houses, palaces, towers, and walls. The guild cards help guide the masons in their building and the special dice offer them the materials they need.

Each player decides where to build his houses and palaces. Whenever walls enclose a city, it is scored.

The game will determine which mason makes the best use of his materials and guild cards. But that will not be known until the final scoring, when the final scoring is complete and the players learn which of them has scored the most points to earn the victory as the greatest mason! At least for this game!

Mason - no walls, no power!

This new board game for the whole family is set in middle America long before Cortez came to conquer the area. The Mayan culture built large pyramids such as those found at Tikal and Copan. The players are the pyramid’s master builders, building the immense structures stone by stone. Unfortunately the building areas are mixed and can be built concurrently. This creates conflict in the quarries and the building sites. The player who has contributed the most stones to the building of a pyramid will earn the greatest portion of the gold associated with that pyramid. And the player with the most gold will win the game!

The awe-inspiring Metropolys is in effervescence! Talented Urban planners and architects rival each other to make luxury, elegant buildings of glass and steel defying the laws of balance grow from the ground. Who will eventually impose their style to leave an indelible trail in the history of the city? The answer is in your hands!

The players are urban planners in quest of prestige. Over the course of the game, they try to construct their buildings in the best places. As soon as a player has placed all of their buildings, the game ends. The player with the most prestige is the winner.

Many civilizations have come and gone over the course of human history. Some developed very advanced, inspiring cultures. Others remain unnoticed. Today we seek answers to countless questions left by our ancestors. Historians explore their ancient monuments, structures, and ruins that illuminate hidden stories passed down from antiquity. Here lie the sacred answers of our past. Can you find them? Can you find their tales? Can you reawaken history? Become an ancient visionary. Build great monuments to inspire your people! Can you design a true wonder of the world? Or will you take an existing creation and lift it to greater heights? Then, can you help these monuments achieve eternal fame and glory? With splendid monuments and preserved chronicles, your people will take their place in history!