A game board comprising a tapered playing field with walls rising from a perimeter thereof. The board comprises open receptacles arranged in a pattern or randomly on the playing field. A triangular pattern extends from an apex adjacent to a first wall to a base adjacent to a second wall. Each of the receptacles comprise a depth and a diameter sufficient to capture a ball used in the game. A movable track comprising a pair of rods comprising first and second ends is disposed above the field. The first ends are attached to a pivot disposed on the first wall and the second ends are inserted through an elongate opening in the second wall. The track is inclined from the pivot ends. A ball placed on the track near the pivot ends is urged to travel uphill along the track and dropped into a receptacle by manipulating the rods.

A tile game system is provided that includes a plurality of two-dimensional and three-dimensional components. The two-dimensional components can include a plurality of modular tiles provided in various sizes and configurations that can be joined together to form a grid-based gameplay area. The three-dimensional components can include external boundaries for the gameplay area, internal boundaries, terrain elements such as columns and staircases, and game figures. According to aspects of the present disclosure, the external and internal boundaries can be provided with recessed sections that allow a game figure to be contained within a single grid square and prevent the grid of the gameplay area from becoming warped. According to some aspects of the present disclosure the internal and external boundaries can be illuminated and provided with removable and interchangeable light-permeable skins that allow a user to switch between various illuminated designs.

A universal Cribbage board for playing multiple versions of a Cribbage game and method of play provides a universal Cribbage game board adapted to mark points accumulated during card play. The board game is configured for play with multiple versions of a traditional Cribbage card game. The game board has a continuous scoring track that is color-coded and extended to 130 peg holes to accommodate different versions of the traditional Cribbage game. A method of playing variations of the traditional Cribbage card game that are fundamentally the same as traditional Cribbage games, but differ in card scoring combinations, final scores, sequences of playing the cards, privileges, dealer advantages, strategic options, alternative point values, and different odds, in addition to the normal rules of the traditional Cribbage card game. The versions of the Cribbage game include a Holtey 500 Cribbage game, a Dealer's Cribbage game, and a Magic Cribbage game.

A system and method for a word construction game that allows players to place words in any direction: forward, backward, up, down, and can zig zag around corners where corner words may have a double value. Each word going around a corner may be a complete word of its own or a single word. The word construction game has one hundred fourteen tiles with eight that are doubled sided whereby the players will be allotted seven tiles. The word construction game is played on a uniquely shaped board in the shape of a house.

A two player strategic board game comprising thirty squares arranged into seven horizontal rows and six vertical columns. The top and bottom rows each have two squares; the second and sixth rows have four squares; and the middle three rows have six squares. Each row contains an equal number of alternating black and white squares. The outer columns each have three squares; the next two columns have five squares; and the middle two columns have seven squares. The game further comprises twelve game pieces divided into two sets of six, namely one white set and one black set. Each set comprises two minions, two prelates, one templar, one krown and two rings of game pieces that can be put on either krown based on a rule set. The objective of the game is for a player to occupy the opponent player's end two squares.

A game board comprising a tapered playing field with walls rising from a perimeter thereof. The board comprises open receptacles arranged in a pattern or randomly on the playing field. A triangular pattern extends from an apex adjacent to a first wall to a base adjacent to a second wall. Each of the receptacles comprise a depth and a diameter sufficient to capture a ball used in the game. A movable track comprising a pair of rods comprising first and second ends is disposed above the field. The first ends are attached to a pivot disposed on the first wall and the second ends are inserted through an elongate opening in the second wall. The track is inclined from the pivot ends. A ball placed on the track near the pivot ends is urged to travel uphill along the track and dropped into a receptacle by manipulating the rods.

A cribbage board having 2 skunk figures which are released when a cribbage player is skunked or double skunked.

An emotional learning system includes: a plurality of emotion state identifiers that includes at least one common character configured to visually define a plurality of emotional states; and a self-emotion defining device configured to allow a user to identify their own emotional state so that it may be compared to the plurality of emotional states.

An conflict-resolution board system includes: a first emotion identifier storage area configured for storing a first plurality of emotion state identifiers corresponding to a first plurality of emotional states; a second emotion identifier storage area configured for storing a second plurality of emotion state identifiers corresponding to a second plurality of emotional states; and a conflict indication area configured to allow a first participant to indicate their emotional state by selecting one of the first plurality of emotion state identifiers and allow a second participant to indicate their emotional state by selecting one of the second plurality of emotion state identifiers.

An emotion-indication board system includes: an emotion identifier storage area configured for storing a plurality of emotion state identifiers corresponding to a plurality of emotional states; a participant identifier storage area configured for storing a plurality of participant identifiers corresponding to a plurality of participants; an emotion indication area configured to allow one or more of the plurality of participants to indicate their emotional state via one or more of the plurality of participant identifiers and one or more of the plurality of emotional state identifiers.