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15 Minute Board Game Challenge

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Saved by Grant Shonkwiler
on June 30, 2009 at 9:46:34 pm
 

Following the four steps set forth in Level 1 (summarized below), try to create a board game in only 15 minutes, using a sheet of printer paper for the board, and a sheet of notebook paper for the rules.

 

Four Steps:

  • Draw a Path
  • Come up with a theme or objective.
  • Create a set of rules to let the player move from place to place.
  • Create conflict.

 

Games Created using this Challenge (Now in Alphabetical Order...please add accordingly)

note: if you are wondering what people have come up with since you were last on, go to recent activity, click More activity, and hit New Pages in the Filter Activity box.

 

Alien Race by Kalle Miller

2+ Players

Time to complete: Didn't count.

Summary: Ach, run! It's the UFO's!

 

Boulder'n'roll by Daniel Garcia

Players: 2+

Time to Complete: 10 minutes

Summary: Each player try to be the one with more treasures and exit the cave meanwhile they  are followed by a Giant Boulder!

 

Collector's Edition  by Tyler Sandersfeld

Time to Complete: 13 mins for the rough version (considerably longer for the posted version)

Summary: Being the first to the end doesn't matter if you don't have the goods.

 

Don't Look Down by Colin Avrech

Players: 2 to 8

Theme: Rock Climbing(Falling down a mountain)

 

Entanglement by Alain Bellon

Time to complete: 7 min

2+ Players

Summary: A strategy game. Build your network by moving from node to node but only along unused network paths. Fast to setup, and instant rules. Unusual path game but adheres to the rules literally.

 

Extinction by Leana Galiel

Time to Complete: 10-15 minutes

Summary: Players race forward to survive extinction as a dinosaur. As they move forward, the board becomes a wasteland behind them.

 

Faster Than the Bear: by Matthew Johnson

Time to complete: About fifteen minutes, plus noodling on the bus ride home.

Players: 3+ (odd numbers are best)

Summary: A game based on the joke whose punchline is "I don't need to run faster than the bear, I just need to run faster than you." Designed to encourage alliance, betrayal and revenge. 

 

Flood by Andy Elliott

Time to complete: About ten minutes

Summary: Players are racing to reach the last remaining seat on a boat to escape their rapidly flooding city.

 

Frenzy! by Fabrizio Marcotulli

Time to complete: 5 minutes for the board and general idea. over 20 for the ruleset I linked.

Summary: race to the finish line while preventing others to move and catch up with you

 

Frontier by Jason Greeno

Time to Complete: 13 minutes

Summary: Race to Settle the Unknown

 

Hunt for the Autograph by Luke McCampbell

Players: 2 to 4

Summary:  Your one of the countless members of the con. You and your friends are all huge game design buffs, and you have to get the autograph of your favorite game designer on his new board game. The problem is getting their before your fellow hotel room mates can.

 

King of the Hill by Alex Crouzen

Time to complete: +/- 10 minutes

Summary: Try to reach the top of the mountain, but watch those boulders!

 

King's Court by Dan Carreker

Time to Complete: 15 min

Summary:  Be the first to complete the assembeling of your court in this easy to set-up board/card game.  2-4 players.

 

Kitchen Carnage by Vee Uye

Time to Complete: 10+ mins

Summary: Race to snag the last slice of pizza 

 

Mathematics Adventures!

By Nahuel "CalaveraX"

Time to complete: About 20 minuts

Players: Two to four.

Summary: A Board game, bassed on Mathematics, with 3 categories, adapted to the respective ages (6 to 8 // 8 to 10 // and 10 to 12). is a didactid game bassed on Elemental School Contents.

 

Mixed Signals by Scott Nicholson

Players : 4, in teams of 2

Summary: Players attempt to blindly navigate through a maze following verbal instructions from their partner while deaing with interference from the other team.

 

Monsters in the Closet by Aaron

Time to Complete: 9:56

Summary: Every kid's worst nightmare is the monster in the closet. Now, you've fallen into the closet and have to get out before the monster finds you!

 

Monster Race By Edna Ann Rouse

Time to Complete: About 15 min

Summary: Beat the monster to the end! With a head start, should be easy, right? First one there is a Lucky Ducky.

 

Office Politics by Luke Magnan

Time to Complete:  About 15 minutes

Summary:  Use your hard won office influence to move up the corporate ladder, all while trying to reduce the influence of your coworkers.  This quick "race to the end" game features a unique auction mechanic and has a "take that!" feel.

 

ORC ESCAPE by Marcos Jr

Players: 2+

Time to complete: not clocked(under 15min)

Summary: Players run and fight orcs and themselves to get to the safehouse and escape the orc attack.

 

Pattycake Panic! by Silent Ellipsis

Players: 4 (2 teams of 2)

Summary: Reach the finish by completing games of pattycake faster than the opposing team. Also, throw pies.

 

Robotron by Vladimir Agafonov

2-4 Players

Time to complete: ~30 mins

Summary: Show you tactical skills as a commander of robots army and win the championship.

 

Running with Scissors by Stephen Glenn

Time to Complete: 9 minutes

Summary: Race by playing RPS

 

Swing Dresser! by Liam O'Brien

players 3+

Time to complete 15 minutes (but an hour for the typing)

Summary: The regular dresser is out sick. You've never seen the show or been backstage, and you only have notes to tell you what to do... this wouldn't be so bad if you were the only swing on tonight...

 

The Madness of Cthulhu, by Orion Cooper

Players: 2 to 4

Time to Complete: Total of 15 minutes (not counting game board)

Summary: You play a doomed scholar escaping from unnatural horrors in an alien and antediluvian city.

 

The Snail Race by Dan1066

Time to Complete: <10 min

Summary: Two or more players race to get to the center of the snails shell

 

The X marrks the spot by Federico Fasce

3 to 4 players

Time to complete: about 10 minutes

Summary: The game brings you to the caribbean, where pirates struggle to find a treasure and made it safe to the port.

 

Wicked Woods: by Robert Polzin

TIme to Complete: 10 minutes

Time to Complete A Game: 20-30 minutes

Players: 2-4

Summary: A card and board game that pits player against player through a treacherous woods. They must use their wits and luck to beat their siblings to grandmother's house while avoiding the creepy crawlies and other dangers of the woods.

 

Ziggurat: Race to the Top

2-4 players

Time to complete: Rough version 12+ minutes  Sumbitted version: a bit longer

Summary: Race to the top of the Ziggurat, but watch out for your opponents!

 

Man on Wire by david epstein (Theme inspired by documentary of the same name).

Time to complete: 15 minutes-ish

Time to complete a game: depends on age and temperament 

3-7 players

Summary: Players represents aspiring high wire artists competing to traverse a series of high wire lines strung between the largest buildings in New York City.

 

Runaway Train by Robert Gauss

Players: 1-4

Time: 20-30 minutes

The goal is to beat the train down the tracks and hit all of the emergency brakes on the tracks.

Players are those little hand cars.

A pair of dice is rolled.  Players than move their carts either die roll or the sum of both.  The goal is to hit all of the brake switches, so movement should be forward or back.

One die moves the train.  The train slowly moving is the conflict for all players.

Winner throws all the switches and makes it to the end.  It is possible for no winners!

 

NomNomNom by Grant Shonkwiler

1 to 4 players

Time to complete: about 7 minutes

Summary: You play a piece of food trying to be the last one eaten by "The Mouth"

 

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