Quarreling Corsairs

Theme and Setup

Quarreling Corsairs is a game about a bunch of pernicious pirates searching an atoll for treasure and raiding Spanish galleons. At the beginning of the game, each pirate is dealt one card which shows a list of treasures. On the board are six small islands and two bigger ones. The smaller islands will each have two spots for treasure while the two larger ones will have four thus having twenty treasure spots total. To set up the game pull treasure tokens on of a bag and place one face down on each of the treasure spots. The player with the most R’s in their name goes first.

Gameplay

Each player gets five actions during their turn. The different actions they can take are:

• Movement: A player can move their pirate captain, or pirate ship one space for an action.
• Dig: The player if on a space with a treasure token may dig up the treasure and place it face up behind his player screen. The player then replaces that treasure tile with one from the bag.
• Rummin’: A player may use an action to regain attack points
• Piratin’: A player may attack a player that is sharing a space with them. If the attack is successful, the player may randomly take a treasure from the other player.
• Market: If the player’s ship, or captain piece, are on a dock/market space, they may sell treasure for gold coins. Cards given at the start of the game give bonuses for selling certain items.

Spanish galleons are special ships that move around the board in a specific manner. These may be attacked like any other pirate but are harder to beat. If you do beat them piratin’. Then you may take a specific amount of gold coins straight into your hold.

Ending the Game

On eight of the treasure tiles are different pieces of eight. These do not need to be sold for gold coins and can be kept. When all eight pieces of eight have been dug up, the game is over. Gold coins are counted and treasure still in the pirate’s hold (behind the player screen) is counts for half its gold value. The pirate captain with the most gold coins is the winner.

One Clip Wonder

Fame and riches await your amazing viral videos! With secrets, random events, horrific accidents, and a bunch of bad ideas, collaborate your way to one million.
For 3 to 6 wannabe stars; 5 to 20 minutes

Components

• 54 By the Way cards – Hidden powers and other game changers
• 108 Crazy Idea cards – Objects, actions, and anatomy to be damaged
• 54 Guess What cards – Events, situations, and outcomes

Overview

Play a series of hands each representing one video. Hands end suddenly when a Guess What card generates the money shot. Cards have hit counts on them and are banked out of play.
Once someone reaches One Million Hits, the game ends. Some Guess Whats generate a large number of hits, because well you died and the game ends after scoring that hand. You may posthumously “win,” but if you do, you can’t speak for the next five minutes. If you refuse to die peacefully, the runner up wins.

Crazy Ideas

Exploitable items and situations. Each has a number of potential uses
- Publicity - Anatomical moments – Stunts – Accidents - Mad skillz - Mind blowers -
Ideas are chained from player to player. The right side of the card are uses that can chain from this card, across the top are uses that chain to this one.

Guess Whats

Descriptions and multiple outcomes: Check them in order until one is met. Each card has at least one way to end the hand.

By the Ways

Facedown hidden powers list their game effect and when they can or must be revealed.

Setup

Shuffle decks, choose an initial dealer.

Hand Start

1. Deal two By the Way cards to each wannabe. Each wannabe passes one and keeps one.
2. Deal four Crazy Ideas
3. Flip the top Crazy Idea to start the chain

Turn Play

1. Draw a Crazy Idea
2. Play a Crazy Idea that chains or discard and pass
3. After dealer plays, flip a Guess What card
4. If hand didn’t end, continue playing
   Rotate deal between hands.

Example round:

• Wannabe 1 plays a hammer
• W2 matches the hammer’s anatomy symbol and plays “groin”
• W3 plays duct tape
• W3 reveals the first “Guess What” card:
  Found some Nuclear Waste
  1. Laser, Rocket, and Evil Genius are not in play; so, the game does not end in a nuclear explosion group ”win” fatality
  2. No Boom Box or Mystery Mushrooms, so no Spontaneous Rave (hand ender)
  3. Default – “We glow” Mutation can score double this hand

Samples

• Crazy Ideas: ATV, Necronomicon, skyscraper, Scottish broadsword, skateboard, leg, gasoline, mmm… fireworks, foot longs, Mentos, box of roaches, haiku, gorilla suit, mall, super soaker, unicycle, church, soda
• By The Ways Not my real…, Do you believe in magic?, Yum, Former Olympian, Guess who I know!, I’m infectious, Impressive Anatomy, Grrlz, Yes… I’m a doctor, Possesed, “The Truth is Out There”
• Guess Whats: Demon Summoning, Sky High, Viral... Literally, Beachy keen, Autograph my…, SPCA Called, Zombies…

Die Race 2000

It’s not a race to the finish, but rather a race to the end. The end is near! Your end.

A press-your-luck dice game for 2-4 players, where you fill up your vehicles fuel tank for long sprints, while timing your sprints to keep your fuel from being wiped-out in an explosion.

Components:

• Scoring track (ranging from 0-199) – “wasteland”
• A unique score marker for each player – “vehicles”
• Large opaque bag – “fuel supply”
• 40 standard (d6) dice [1][2] – “fuel” and “bomb” dice
• An area for each player to store their unused fuel dice - fuel “tank”

[1] NOTE: The dice should all be of the same size, shape, and feel. However, four of them should have some distinguishing visual marking. These four dice are the bombs; the remaining dice are fuel.

[2] NOTE: If 40 similar dice are difficult to come by, you can use a standard deck of cards as the fuel supply by simply removing the face cards and using the Aces as bombs. However, you will still need a handful of dice to roll when making a sprint. Also, you could just use a notepad to keep score.

Determine the starting player and player order. Place the player vehicles on the wasteland at position 0. Place all of the dice in the opaque bag, and mix them up to prepare the fuel supply. Hand the bag to the starting player, and begin the race.

Each players turn will consist of him drawing a die from the fuel supply, and (if it is not a bomb) adding it to his tank. He may then either “make a sprint” or end his turn.

If the player wishes to make a sprint, he collects all of the dice in his tank, rolls them, chooses a value and then calculates his sprint distance as follows: Sprint Distance = (Chosen Value) * (Number of dice showing that value) * (Number of dice rolled)

For example:

• A player rolls four dice and gets the values 1, 3, 3, & 5.
• He chooses a value of 3.
• He therefore scores… 3 * 2 * 4 = 24 movement points.
• That player’s vehicle is then advanced that number of spaces into the wasteland, and his fuel dice are removed from the game. This ends his turn.

If instead the player drew a bomb, then that bomb and all fuel dice in players tanks (all players) are removed from the game. If this was the THIRD bomb drawn, the game ends immediately; otherwise it merely ends the current players turn.

At the end of a players turn, the fuel supply is passed to the next player.

After the game has come to an end, the player furthest into the wasteland wins the game. However, if there is a tie for first place, then the player who drew the final bomb wins the game, regardless of their position.

Future plans:

Additional dice types with special rules. (Nitrous, Dynamite, Solar Fuel Cells, etc.)

The Last Castle

2-4 players
20 to 30 minutes
Deck of 78 cards

The king has decreed that his lords and ladies may build castles. However, they may only use the services of the kingdom’s most trustworthy architects. Unfortunately, all four are quite elderly. Once all have passed away there will be no more castle improvements allowed.

Deal out 5 cards per player.

Order of play: Draw a new card or take card on top of the discard pile. Build (play one card on table) or discard.

The Architect Cards (4 cards)
When drawn, the Royal Architects must be placed to the side (in the Graveyard) and replaced with another card. Players may not keep architects in their hand. The game ends when four architects are drawn unless a Mausoleum is built (See Chapel).

Level Cards (32 cards)
These cards must be built in order (lowest to highest).
1. Servants Stairwell
2. Walls and Foundation
3. Grand Staircase
4. Towers (Lord’s tower and Lady’s tower)

Players may play only one level card for each level except that they may have both a Lord’s Tower and a Lady’s Tower.

Room Cards
Place room cards on corresponding Level cards. In the case of duplicates, only one may be built by a single player (Example, there are 4 kitchens. Each player may build a kitchen, but no player may build more than one.)

1. Servant’s stairwell (8)
4 each – Kitchen, Scullery, Larder and Dungeons

2. Castle Walls and Foundation (8)
2 each – Courtyard, Entry Hall, Garden

3. Grand Staircase (8)
2 each - Throne room, Grand Banquet Hall, Ball Room

4A. Lord’s Tower (4)
2 each - Exchequer’s Counting Room, Armory, Map Room

4B. Lady’s Tower (4)
2 each – Infirmary, Music Room, Tapestry Room

The Chapel / Mausoleum (2 cards)
The King Decrees the chapel shall be highest.
The chapel card may be attached to any level, after which no higher level or room cards may be built by any player. One chapel per game.

Mausoleum Rule - When the last Architect card is drawn any player may immediately play the chapel card from their hand to begin construction of a Mausoleum. Beginning with the player who drew the architect, ask if anyone has a Chapel card and wants to construct the mausoleum. If no one builds a mausoleum, than the game ends immediately. Only one mausoleum may be built.

No Chapel may be built once the Mausoleum is in play.

The turn passes immediately to the player who laid down the Mausoleum card. They take their complete turn. Play continues around the table until it is this player’s turn again. They take one last turn and the game ends.

Points
Room and Level cards are worth their level. The chapel is worth twice the value of the level it was on. Architects and the Mausoleum have no point value.