What Kills Me Makes Me Stronger

Each player controls three creatures. These creatures will fight, die and evolve during the course of the game. The winner is the player who's creatures died, and therefore evolved, the least.

The board is a hex-grid. Some terrain requires more move, others provide more defense, some do damage, etcetera. On the board are three nests per player. Each of these nests can be used by all players.

At the start of the game each piece by default has move 1, attack 1, and maximum health 1.

Move represents the number of hexes that may be moved each turn by the creature. Attack represents the amount of damage done each time it attacks. Health represents life force. It starts at the creature's maximum health, and drops by 1 for each damage taken by the creature.

Whenever a creature is placed onto the board, including during the first turn, the creature's controller adds a block representing one of these three stats to increase that stat by one.

At the start of the game, players take it in turns to place a creature onto the board in one of the nests, placing a stat block onto that creature. After all players have done this, the first player takes his first turn, moving each of his creatures one by one.

When a creature moves into a space occupied by another creature, it attacks that creature. If the attacked creature drops to 0 health, the creature that just moved into the space recovers one health (Up to its maximum health), and the attacked creature dies. If the attacked creature still has health, it's controller must move it immediately in any direction, other than the one the attacking creature came from, up to its maximum move. It may not attack another creature in doing this. If it is surrounded by other creatures, it escapes past the attacking creature, taking one damage in the process. If this kills it, it dies, but the attacking creature does not eat.

When a creature dies, remove it from the board. It will return to the board on its controller's next turn, a little bit more evolved.

On a player's turn, they must place any dead creatures they control not on the board onto the board in a vacant nest, putting a stat block onto that creature. This counts as a single move for that creature.

The game ends when creatures have died a total of 10 times per player playing the game. When this occurs, count the amount of blocks on each player's creatures, adding one for each dead creature the player currently has. The winner is the player with the least blocks in total - That is, the player who's creatures died the least.

"Okay, so I’m going to teach everyone Urbs Salinarum. In this game, you’re all guilds trying to build up a town into a city, but like a lot of Euros the theme is really just pasted on."

"You can see we’ve got seventy double-sided tiles. One side has a generic city block, the other has a colored production building. We also have these little fiddly Euro cubes as well. There’s five colors and twenty-five cubes in each color. You’ve also got three pawns and a player aid for each color. The pawns are Agents, they are the way you are going to score points in this game. The player aid has a score track and an explanation of the five building types. More on that in a bit."

"Alright, so let’s talk about setup. Make sure all of the tiles have their generic side face-up and scramble them. Then we’ll go around the table, drawing a tile and placing it in the middle with the production side up and our agent on top of it. We’ll keep going until all the agents are out on the board, so our town will start at fifteen tiles. Whenever you put a tile down it has to touch at least one edge of a tile already down."

"But before we do that, I better tell you how each side of the tile works and how to score points. At the start of your turn, you can move any or all of your agents one space. A move is up, down, left or right, no diagonals. If you hit another player’s agent then it goes back to them, but any cubes on that tile go to that player too. Then you must draw a tile and you can play a tile if you want. If you do play a tile and you have an agent in front of you, you can put it out with the tile."

"Why would you have an agent in front of you? Because after you draw a tile, you can choose to remove one agent. If you pull an agent from a generic city tile, you get to grab one cube from the bank of any color. If you pull an agent from a production city tile, you get all of the cubes on that tile or you get to do the special ability of that tile. I won’t go into detail on those, they’re on your player aid and do things like flip nearby tiles or mess with your or another player’s agents. At the end of your turn, for any production tiles with your agent on them, add new cubes equal to the cubes already on the tile, or one cube if it’s empty. You can turn in a rainbow set of five cubes for a victory point or a set of five cubes all in your color for a victory point. The first to ten points is the winner. Ready to play?"

Roll over Mars

Space exploration inspired game for 2 - 4 kids. Designed to teach weighing and measurement.

Mission

To control a Mars rover and collect stones. To do measurements. To improve rovers capacity and to be the first to complete mission. Mission is completed when eight stones are taken to base.

Components

A wide cloth, an image of planet Mars printed on it. Image has a center point and 6 sectors.
A balance scale, standard weights.
A ruler 20".
A dial caliper.
Mars stones. Around 40 blocks, various sizes. Blocks' sizes (and weights) comprise a series.
4 cards representing Mars rover and its equipment.
4 Mars exploration rover figurines.
1 Base.
3 Mounting garages
A deck of accessory cards. Accessories are large container, more efficient battery and great solar power.
D6.

Set-up

Spread out Mars image cloth. Scatter stones all over Mars.
Deal Mars rover cards. Rover card tells what is maximum capacity, how big a stone can be picked. Rover card also inform battery duration and solar power.

What players don't know, is how much each stone weigh or what are stone's exact dimensions. Vehicle can only take stone which weight and dimensions go under maximum capacity.

Place the base in the center. Put 3 garages near the base.

Round

A round starts by reading weather report. Roll dice, the number shows in what sector weather is bad and moving there is impossible. A rover being in the bad weather area suffer damages by losing 1 accessory.

Toss who is allowed to play his turn first. Next ones clockwise.

Toss whether supply shipment happens in the end of this round.

Players take turns to control their vehicles and collect stones. Stones must be measured. If the stone isn't too big, rover picks it and brings to the base. If rover has enough energy, and if rover's capacity allows, multiple stones can be transported at a time.

When round ends, those rovers parked in a garage gain 1 accessory, if supply shipment did happen. Accessory is usable next round and in every since. If accessory was Large Container, then that rover has two containers, standard and large.

Every rover obtain the battery fully charged between rounds.

Turn

Count energy and check how long distance your rover can ride on this turn. One distance unit consumes one unit energy. Measure distance to that stone you want to pick. Use the ruler. Consider if the stone is too heavy or too big. Then your rover cannot carry it and you must return back to base. Or, if energy enough, you can guide rover to an another stone.

Player is allowed to apply measurements (weight, width and length) only when his rover has reached the target stone. To find out stone's weight, use the balance scale. To measure its width and length, use the dial caliper.

Winner

Mission is completed when eight stones are taken to the base by a player. Whoever player does this first, is the winner.