Players construct and then vie for ownership of overlapping triangles in an effort to own a set of triangles that form a bridge from one side of the board to the other.

Each player chooses one of each triangles' three vertices by placing a peg in the board. Players use their "money" to "purchase" faces of the die and thereby weight their chances of winning ownership of the triangle. The die is thrown and whom ever owns the die's top face wins the triangle.

The winner encircles the triangle's three pegs with a rubber band of their color. When a set of overlapping triangles of one color spans the board, the player associated with that color wins.

In COLORCHESS the opposing sides are blue and red, and the tactical value of each piece is keyed to its saturation of color. Thus the pawns are the lightest tint and the kings and queens the most vivid.

Being of uniform size, with subtle differences in shape to aid recognition, color becomes the major distinguishing characteristic.

Set agaist the board's neutral grid, the colored pieces create changing patterns as the game progresses.

The open spaces and clusters of color become descriptive diagrams of the action.

Players choose their avatar and place it on one of the 4 "birth" spaces at the center of the board. In the "conscious" part of each round players move their avatars in steps from the inner rings outward, choosing one of the 3 paths available to them at any space. Once they've chosen a new space, players write down the sentence written on the space and mark the positive and negative attributes embedded in it.

In the "dream" part of each round players chose to enter either the intellectual or the emotional dream maze. They locate one of their negative character traits in the maze of their choice and then start the timer.

Each player has 30 seconds to move away from this negative trait, past sentence fragments and images, to reach some other trait. Whatever trait they reach is exchanged for the negative trait from which they started. Each player must then write a sentence describing this transformation using the sentence fragments they've encountered in their passage through the maze.

Players' lives end after 5 rounds. They're scored according to how successfully they've transformed negative into positive attributes. The winning player is the one who has most improved him or her self.

Concept: Text authors inflexably engage readers because readers' power to reinterpret the text is limited to nonexistent. How can we enable the reader to write their own story without abandoning or coercing them? Since readers generally do not know how to create a story how do we faciliate the creation of their journey? This game suggests an answer.

Players choose to join Robin Hood, the Sheriff of Nottingham, the Noblemen, or the Fairies. They position their actors symmetrically on the board and place the arrows on certain unoccupied spaces.

Players take turns moving two of their pieces one space each in a race to pick up fallen arrows, carry them to judicious locations, and fire them at their adversaries.

The arrows continue flying around the board while other players take their turns, trying to pick up fallen arrows while avoiding those in flight. When an actor is hit by an arrow they're sent to nirvana. The arrow that dispatched them falls to the ground to be picked up by whomever gets to it first.

The last player to remain on the board wins.

Red and the green players arrange their pieces symmetrically in 4 of the star's 5 legs. Each space carries between 1 and 5 symbols. Pieces move in different manners according to their shape.

A piece's power is determined by whether the symbol that it carries matches any of the symbols printed on the space it occupies. A player's total power on a space is the sum of the powers of their pieces.

Players move their pieces in and between groups in an attempt to overpower and remove the opposing player's pieces. The surviving player wins.

Players position their actors symmetrically around the corners of planet Ugluk, placing the arrows on pegs at certain unoccupied vertices of the colored paths.

Players take turns moving two of their pieces in a race to pick up fallen arrows, carry them to judicious locations, and fire them at their adversaries.

The arrows continue flying around the globe while other players take their turns, trying to pick up fallen arrows while avoiding those in flight.

When an actor is hit by an arrow they're sent to nirvana and the arrow falls to the ground to be picked up by whomever gets to it first.

On this surface the geodesics change direction in odd ways as they cross surface boundaries, so the problem is to figure out how the arrows will fly, and how to sneak up on other players without being noticed.

The last player to remain on the board wins.

Concept: the board is a 6 sided, non-Platonic solid whose surface is covered by 3 mutually and multiply intersecting paths. This shape is mounted on a wooden pole and can be spun around its axis.

The game developed when my brother looked at "Robin Hood," shown above, and asked, "Why is it flat?"