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  Funagain Games: Terrace
Most games that come along intending to be one of the next best stategy games usually fall short of their goals.
Terrace is a genuine exception to that rule.
Board Game Geek is an incredible compilation of information about board and card games with many descriptions, photographs, reviews, session reports, and other commentary.
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  Facts about topic: (Terrace (board game))   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Terrace is a strategy game (additional info and facts about strategy game) played on a three dimensional board.
The board has 64 squares of one color, which are arranged in L-shaped levels ("terraces") that rise stepwise from the board's lowest points in two diagonally opposite corners to its highest points in the two other corners.
Later (by 1997), the board was changed to 6x6 (36 squares), a 43% reduction in size, with 12 pieces per side instead of 16.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/te/terrace_(board_game).htm   (116 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Terrace (board game)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The board has 64 squares of uniform color, which are arranged in L-shaped levels ("terraces") that rise stepwise from the board's lowest points in two diagonally opposite corners to its highest points in the other two corners.
Games tend to be circling rapier duels for territorial control and material advantage, and players are often faced with the dilemma of pursuing one of the two victory conditions.
When the board game was introduced in 1992, Terrace won a number of major awards and was subsequently featured on Star Trek: The Next Generation as a permanent prop.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Terrace-(board-game)   (493 words)

  
 Terrace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Terrace (agriculture), a levelled section of a hilly cultivated area, designed to slow or prevent the rapid run-off of irrigation water
Terraced house, a style of housing where identical individual houses are cojoined into rows
Terrace (Road Name Designation), a suffix to the name of a street as in "Cherry Terrace" which usually denotes a road which is not a main thoroughfare.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Terrace   (236 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Terrace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Terraces are also easier for both mechanical and manual sowing and harvesting than a steep slope would be.
Terrace is the name of a community in the province of British Columbia, Canada.
Terrace is the service center for the surrounding communities, with Highway 37 running south to Kitmat (home of ALCAN), where your aluminum comes from, and north to Alaska.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Terrace   (349 words)

  
 Small Abstract Strategy Board Games
Boards with hexagons instead of squares, or a matrix of connected lines can be made on any good drawing program.
The object of the game is to form a connection from one edge of the board to the opposite edge.
The object of the game is to get the neutron into your home row, or to force your opponent to move the neutron into your home row, or to block the neutron so that your opponent cannot move it.
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 Buy Terrace
Terrace achieved early fame by being featured in the futuristic lounge of the Starship Enterprise on the then-new Next Generation series.
But while Terrace does look great in a such a futuristic setting, we always thought our own game would have looked even better in Whoopi's bar, and thus were eaten up with envy at the Terrace inventor's cultural coup.
The game was originally published with an 8x8 board, but the current edition uses a smaller board, which I think is a definite improvement, as it makes for faster games and also makes the product much more portable and conveniently sized.
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 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Olympic games -> The Modern Olympics The modern revival of the Olympic games is due in a large measure to the efforts of Pierre, baron de Coubertin, of France.
National Labor Relations Board -> History The Wagner Act, which established the NLRB, was validated by the Supreme Court in 1937.
In all of the many variations there are betting rounds during which each player in the game must fold (stop playing the hand), call (equal the bet made), or raise (increase the bet made).
www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Terrace+(board+game)   (664 words)

  
 Terrace (board game) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Terrace is a strategy game played on a three dimensional board.
The object is to win either by moving your T from its starting point at one corner to an opposite corner, or by capturing your opponent's T. When the board game was introduced in 1992, Terrace won a number major awards and was subsequently featured on Star Trek: The Next Generation as a permanent prop.
Terrace (board game), External links and Board games.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Terrace_%28board_game%29   (220 words)

  
 Karl von Laudermann's Web Site
Terrace is my favorite strategy board game, and Java is a neat programming language, so I've written an implementation of Terrace in Java.
For example, for 3 player games the board is set up with pieces of all four colors; one set of pieces simply isn't used by any of the players.
Also, the play order for games with 3 or 4 players is counterclockwise instead of clockwise (except for a 4 player game on a 6x6 board, which has a strange play order).
www.geocities.com /~karlvonl/JavaTerrace.html   (1404 words)

  
 Willamette Week| Gift Guide 2 | Kids
Try the new board game Terrace ($24.95, Bridges: A Toy and Bookstore, 218 A Ave., Lake Oswego, 699-1322), which was developed by a Lake Oswego resident and featured on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Terrace is a tiered game that employs orbs as game pieces and has only four rules of play.
This game's setup is similar to Battleship's (you can't see what your opponent is up to), but the object here is to reconstruct a UFO that crashed in the desert.
www.wweek.com /html/gg298-kids.html   (1034 words)

  
 StandardNET/Standard-Examiner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A board game is even a welcome diversion after a stint of video gaming.
Games (and puzzles) were a $2.3 billion business in 2004, according to statistics from the Toy Industry Association, Inc., in New York City.
The popularity of board games is growing with teenagers and adults, says Arneson, in a phone interview from Cornwall, Pa. Although he has no statistics, Arneson gets word-of-mouth interest from teens through e-mails and requests.
www.standard.net /standard/44148   (1438 words)

  
 Home of the Underdogs - Entry: Terrace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Terrace is a unique board game that rocketed to fame when it was selected to feature as a permanent prop onboard the Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The game is played on a terraced board, with pieces of varying sizes.
The board game original has won numerous awards worldwide, including a spot in GAMES Magazine’s prestigious “Best 100 Games of All Time” award.
www.the-underdogs.org /game.php?id=2724   (372 words)

  
 Net 1000.net - Games - Board Games
Free Board Games - Free Board Games by Emmor Ray Sperry - The Superlative Game Co. Ltd.
Pentegonia, the Board Game - Pentagonia is a new two-player, abstract-strategy, board game with a very chess-like attribute.
When the board game was introduced in 1992, Terrace won every major award and was put on Star Trek: The Next Generation as a permanent prop.
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 ABC-Dir: Game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Game includes both the standard Tetris game and other popular variations with eight levels of the game.
Board game reviews from a private collector -- Reviews include a brief description of play, pictures from the game in...
The game tends to be a bit of...
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 ABC-Dir: Computer Game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Board game and computer game are both featured.
Game information, screen shots of versions of the game on several platforms, resources.
Game Studies is a crossdisciplinary journal dedicated to computer games research, with focus on aesthetic, cultural and communicative aspects of...
www.abc-directory.com /view/computer_game   (274 words)

  
 Terrace -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Terrace (gardening), in gardening, an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospect.
Terrace deposit, a geologic deposit, or sediment, from an old stream, usually in an elevated aspect relative to the current streamway.
Terrace, British Columbia, a community in the province of British Columbia, Canada.
www.grohol.com /psypsych/Terrace   (233 words)

  
 Axiom
So throughout the game the board is moving, changing, and shrinking - hopefully drawing your opponent into an artful trap but often leaving you with that awful dread of a cornered animal.
The latest edition of the game includes a small mat to play on that can rotated so that both players can have a good look at all sides of the board before moving.
Games like 3D chess or tic tac toe really degenerate to complex pattern matching for me. With Axiom I found myself envisioning the total space and manipulating that space in complex ways in my mind.
www.gamecabinet.com /reviews/Axiom.html   (805 words)

  
 Asian Games: The Art of Contest
The advent of chess marked a major step forward in the evolution of the board game in society.
Remarkably, the game stops short of regicide, but this polite convention does not disguise the nature of the contest.
The worldwide distribution of the game, the undiminished enthusiasm with which it is played, and the continued improvement of even its highest exponents are all testimony to its unique qualities.
www.asiasociety.org /arts/asiangames/war2.html   (229 words)

  
 Gameflame: Board Games
This is just like the board game you have to try to sink the other players ships by chosing a section of the board.
All standard variants are supported: 2 player long game, 2 player short game, and 3 and 4 player games, on both a 6x6 and 8x8 board.
The object of the game is to have the most stones in your home pit at the end of the game.
www.gameflame.com /search/Board_Games   (350 words)

  
 Terrace® Strategy Game - Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Terrace board game is an exciting award-winning strategy game that can be learned in minutes.
With Computer Terrace, players can test their skills against the computer, or they can play other Terrace players anywhere in the world via the Internet.
Terrace has introduced unique features not found on any other game including: capturing your own piece to your advantage, two different ways to win, and a "terraced" board which is like no flat board on which you've ever played!
www.terracegames.com   (227 words)

  
 Omniseek: Recreation: /Recreation /Games /Board Games /Terrace /
Games and Recreation Board Games Chess Archives and the information on a number of board games.
I first saw this board game at the international toy fair in 1992, and to this day it is one of my favorite games.
by Darren Kammer Background Terrace is a board game which (as the documentation tells you) was invented in 1915 by Anton Dresden in Holland.
recreation.omniseek.com /srch/{35307}   (442 words)

  
 board game - The bestideas and resources on board game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Wrestling Board Game Wrestling Madness is a wrestling board game for 2-6 players; ages 8 to adult.
Ulcers is board game made in New Zealand by Thos Holdsworth & Sons Ltd. The basic premise of the...
Board game [Categories: Board games] A board game is any (A contest with rules to determine a winner) game played with a premarked surface, with counters or pieces that are moved across the board...
www.directory.partypartyonline.com /boardgame   (1671 words)

  
 Quest For Power Press Release
Quest for Power is not just a board game, card game, or role-playing game but a product that uses your imagination to make yourself part of an entire gaming world.
During game play, each player would start along the perimeter of the board and flip a card over.
The game itself may be played as a solitaire game or with up to 8 people.
www.ugrad.cs.jhu.edu /~raj/qfp.html   (1464 words)

  
 Kitchener-Waterloo On Board
Board sponsors, the media, Centre staff and the general public had a terrific time as the game was launched to great fanfare.
The first Kitchener-Waterloo On Board game was played and numerous audience members won tickets to Lily Tomlin.
The Kitchener-Waterloo On Board game has experienced unprecedented sales and to date 4,200 of the 4,300 available have been sold.
www.centre-square.com /kwonboard.html   (1496 words)

  
 Aboard Puzzle Depot: Games - POKO
Using a game board, two decks of playing cards and poker chips, players try to form two rows of at least five consecutive chips in horizontal, vertical or diagonal lines on the board.
The goal is to form two rows of five or more chips in horizontal, vertical or diagonal lines on the board.
Buzz Siler, co-inventor of "Terrace" (a game featured on Start Trek: The Next Generation), provided us with great accolades on the packaging design.
www.puzzledepot.com /games/poko01.shtml   (515 words)

  
 Are you looking for Board Computer Game Version? This page provides new information on Board Computer Game Version!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Games released a board game version of Sid Meier's computer game Civilization.
The game is very similar to the board game.
CHICAGO — Eagle Games has released a board game version of the computer strategy game Age of Mythology, the latest game in Microsoft Game Studios/Ensemble Studios' best-selling Age of Mythology...
www.games-and-beyond.com /20/board-computer-game-version.asp   (756 words)

  
 Adoptionopoly: The Board Game You Play in the Dark
(The game is never played straight or on the level).
Board surface is not smooth: Lots of hills and valleys, cliffs and abysses, and rough spots.
In the interior of the board is a square:
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 Computer Strategy Game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Strategy games are typically board games, video or computer games with the players' decision-making skills having a high significance in determining the outcome.
The Terrace board game is an exciting award-winning strategy game that can be learned in minutes...
The strategy game is based on the concept of placing tiles to build bridges, and each tile must match the color of adjacent pieces.
www.videogamezero.com /pc-games/computer-strategy-game.html   (1127 words)

  
 Board Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Ken's Game Cabinet has information on a number of board games.
Fat Messiah Games publishes a number of board games.
A Strange Magic Games : Our new strategy board game, Material World(TM), is an adventure similar to the wargames Axis & Allies(TM) and Risk(TM).
www.purplefrog.com /~thoth/library/board.html   (302 words)

  
 Terrace 6x6 Board Game
The 3- or 4-players game starts with the playing pieces for each player as shown in the 4-player diagram at right.
You can create any starting position of your own using any or all the game pieces which come with the game.
The different advantages of the board game and the computer game
www.terracegames.com /boardgame.html   (174 words)

  
 Magic The Gathering Cards & Decks
The golden age of fantasy is brought back to gaming as Conan and Hyboria stride into the realms of gaming once again.
This complete role-playing game allows players and Game Masters alike step into a world of the greatest fantasy hero of all time and shakes the world of Hyboria.
According to the Eagle Games press release, the game design features interesting game mechanics similar to those found in today’s “Euro games”, combined with a great theme, breath-taking art by Paul Niemeyer and Jeff Menges, and stunning plastic miniatures of pirates, treasure, and ships.
www.TrollAndToad.com   (1204 words)

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