Trouble adding theme to a mechanic

How about a super hero theme?

Players are controlling teams of super heroes who are all vying to be the one to save the day.

Locations could be the bridge, the rooftop, downtown, etc.

The super heroes that end up at the location get a share of the "glory" which could be the game's victory points.

Or the flicking phase could just be the first part. Perhaps in the second part the heroes on a location have to do battle with a villain. For this battle, you do do another flicking mini game or create a dice based combat system to deal with it.

And each team could be made up of different heroes. Some would be better against different villains and better at completing different tasks.

Basically, each player controls a different team of Avengers.

The world needs more super hero games.

Reminds me of this.

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/pain-ps3/

Stock exchange type game?

The center is the highest bid to sell, trade or buy the best goods?

Players are buyers who set up their stock by picking their cards from the pile.

Probably a few draw piles that have various prices, overhead margins, years of sell, trade or buy profits?

Draw piles ideas:

1: Corn
2: Live stock
3: Gas
4: Medical
5: Technology
6: Gold
7: Silver
8: Platinum
9: Pharmaceuticals
10: Fish
11: Flowers

Or make up your own.

10 cards each for each category in the center on the board and players flick their workers to the center to see what they get.

Players then save their card (s) I would say flick worker chits three times to create their portfolio. More flicks to the center would create a bigger portfolio but the out come would make it more of a challenge to handle their stock in the long run. This could be a good or a bad thing. But you never know what the player will go for during the course of the game.

The game can have a set timer of say like 5 minutes on the sand timer to allocate the players buy, sell or trade market. The center pile would then flip over one card from each pile. Players can bid for those center cards after the bid of 5 minutes. Players can place stakes of a color card or a non colored card that says buy, sell or trade. Players can then outbid the other player cards for more product or sell their trade for more money to come in for more profit that have a higher sell or buy offer.

To win the game or other players;
Players need to have a set margin of what they want to win with their companies they are stocking up for and manage their stock for the duration of the game with out bailing out of the stock and end up in debt. Center cards will be flipped over after every bid of the placer chits have been flicked. So with each flick, the center card is flipped over and placed on top fo the first , second and so forth card making the center deplete. But players can save those cards from being depletion buy trading or selling the top card that was flipped with other resources in their hand or trade off from other players for prices that have the same amount of buy , sell or trade or sell all stock card.

Ideas sort of got jumbled up. But I think you know where I am coming from.

These are ideas you can all play with.

Stormy

I really like the Gold Rush theme... Jumping claims by bumping out other players tokens is perfect...

Or take hints from sports and go with a basketball theme, or some kind of fantasy multi team sport. Players would jockey for position and you could have certain combinations of spaces allow certain special plays or grant an advantage.

Very nice idea, but... take a look at SAFRANITO before proceeding, so you do not end with similar mechanics by mistake.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/66849/safranito