Abstract: This board game apparatus is adapted for two to four players to play a variety of strategy challenging and luck demanding games. It includes an eight-sided game board having a checkered grid of horizontal rows and vertical columns of squares provided on its playing surface, and two types of plurality of six sided cubic playing pieces positioned on the board. One type of the playing pieces has a first symbol provided on at least one of its six sides to represent a blocking function. The remaining playing pieces have six symbols identifying their six sides. Each different one of these symbols is provided on a different side of their six sides to represent six different functions of these playing pieces. When the playing piece is positioned on the game board with a selected symbol located on the top side, it assumes that particular function.