Clever trivia game with a twist. Each round, a rotating "genius" chooses a question for the other players to answer. One or more of those players might be randomly (and secretly) designated as "idiots", in which case they must write an incorrect answer. There are several ways to score points: get the answer right when you're not an idiot; correctly accuse...
You Only Dice Twice was created for a two-player dice game design competition. The hardest thing to include in most dice games is some kind of player interaction, so that was a major design goal. Players race to be the first to close out the most and most valuable number categories. Each turn, you roll six dice, but you can only use three of them for...
You Read My Mind from Ridley’s is the game that will have you asking, “What were you thinking?!” Think you’re in sync with your sister? Feel like you share the same brain as your bestie? Are you on the same wavelength as your wife? Let’s test that theory. Connect with another player to link two random words together. Sound easy? Well, here’s the catch: you...
Drowning in unread messages? Do you get tens, hundreds, or even thousands of junk emails daily? Well, we have a SOLUTION for you... Play You've Got Junk, the game that puts your clickbait-detecting skills to the test! We've scoured 100% REAL inboxes to find the most ridiculous and unhinged junk mail that exists. Will you be able to recognize the real spam...
On the island of Choros, located in Chile, in the Coquimbo region, there is a small bird from the group of petrels, called Yunco. This bird of nocturnal and oceanic habits uses the moon and the stars to guide its flight and, therefore, is seriously affected by light pollution from cities, which causes shocks as a result of disorientation. In this game you...
A trivia game where the questions are about the other players! Every time you play the game the answers change and you learn something you didn’t know about your friends! In each round, one player is in the ‘spotlight’ (SP) and the others have to answer questions about them. Questions range from easy (what is the SP’s dog’s name?) to esoteric (does the SP...
Each zebra has a unique arrangement of stripes. Create your own distinctive pattern to stand out from the crowd. Zebra is an 18-card flip-and-write game that comes with a separate pad of small sheets. Flip cards to reveal polyomino shapes and add them to your sheet in one of the four different patterns. Maximize your points from each while keeping an eye...
Zellij is a pen and paper solitaire game that consists on drawing a path on a given grid of points, by trying to cover as much of the grid as possible, under the following limitations: The starting point must be random. From any point, a segment can be traced to only one adjacent point, either vertically, horizontally or diagonally. The path can never...
Zemo's Journey is a roll-and-write game introduced in the 2020 4th Roll-and-Write competition. In this game, the player helms the Tritus and sails across a treacherous ocean to find treasure, combat fearsome monsters of the deep, and protect (or plunder!) towns that dot the seascape. With multiple maps and starting conditions, each game offers a unique...
Paper-and-pencil game where from 2 to 4 players must score the most possible points by filling the 16 central spaces of an 8x8 board. Each player starts from a corner of the board and marks with their own symbol (dot, circle, square or cross) a square two or three spaces away in a straight vertical or horizontal line from the square previously marked; a...
A roll and write played in three rounds of five challenges using dice. Using the push your luck and dice freeze mechanisms this game plays solo or with others. In the solo game set your target score based on your most comfortable/preferable temperature (some like it warm like at the beach; others like it brisk like in the mountains). Try to beat your...