BlindFish Games

Th is year I am sharing 24 mini games over advent, where the rules can be explained on the back of a single business card. Today's game is called "Station yard". Today is a new way to use the components of one of the most popular board games from the last 20 years.  Day 20 "Station yard" Players:  2-6 players Equipment:  Ticket to Ride and a hat Concise rules:  Shuffle blue, green, red, yellow, and black train cards into a deck, deal 5 cards face up. Mix all plastic trains into the hat. From the hat draw 4 random sets of 5 plastic trains.  On each turn a player can either pick up two train cards or buy one of the 4 laid out train sets using collected cards. Replenish cards and train sets. Players score points  based on collecting plastic trains of the same colour, combining them from multiple sets. Scoring follows  Ticket to Ride normal rule (3 trains = 4 points etc).  The first player to score 30 points wins. Notes: I made up this game after read...

This year I am sharing 24 mini games over advent, where the rules can be explained on the back of a single business card. Today's game is called "Scrabble chess".  I love little games, that take moments to explain and thinking of new games to play with objects people often already have. So, I set myself a challenge to collect and create as many  business card games  as possible. Day 5 "Scrabble chess" Players:  2 players Equipment:  Scrabble tiles and a chess board Concise rules:  Place all tiles face up next to the chess board. Take turns picking and placing 1 tile anywhere on the board. If you make a word, 4 letters long or longer, you score the points from the scrabble tiles. Remove the tiles you made a word with. Continue until all tiles have been used. Most points win.  Notes: Hacking game components together into new games is nothing new. People have been doing this for years. Home rules for games is common. This hack of a game keep the core mech...