A few friends and I came up with this today. I felt it had to be shared, so here it is.
Preparation: You will need at least 100 blank white cards (the exact number doesn’t matter, but if you have less than 100, the game will end too soon). At the top of each card, write a noun, noun phrase, adjective or adjective phrase. You will want a lot more adjectives/adjective phrases than nouns/noun phrases. In the remaining space, draw something appropriate to what you’ve written. These cards form the deck.
Rules: Shuffle the deck, and deal 7 cards to each player. Each player then plays one noun/noun phrase card in front of them (“in their tableau”) and draws a card. Then decide who goes first.
The aim of the game is to play sets of cards in your tableau. A set consists of cards laid so that they overlap each other while leaving the name of each card visible. The only limit to what a set can consist of is that the sentence/phrase formed makes some sort of sense (after adjusting for grammar, and FSVO “sense”). Justification may be necessary in some cases.
Example sets (with justification in brackets):
* Prototype; Fire; Goggles (Prototype fire goggles (they still do nothing))
* Invisible; The Invisible Man (The Invisisble Invisible Man)
* Angry; Zombie; Bear; Time; Space; TARDIS (An angry zombie bear riding a time-space TARDIS)
Sets can get a lot more complicated than even the third example. Note that the second and third examples show that there is nothing wrong with redundancy.
You can play a card on anyone’s tableau. Playing a card involves either starting a new set with it or adding it to an existing set at any point in your set. Your turn consists of playing as many cards from your hand as you like, discarding as many cards from your hand as you like, and drawing cards until you have 7 in your hand, in that order. If there arent’t enough cards in the deck to replenish your hand to 7 cards, draw all the cards in the deck - the discard pile is not shuffled to form a new deck.
The game ends when noone has any cards in their hand. When this happens, look at all the sets and decide by general consensus which one is best. The player who’s tableau contains that set is the winner.
