Week 4 – 5 game ideas, 1 Theme

My theme is BUGS. I did not see the idea formatting rule at first, so feel free to ignore the other stuff unless you want to see the idea elaborated on.

1. Sting! (not sold on the name) is a card game in which players compete to be the last one remaining by stinging and biting players with bugs.
   • In this card game, players use bugs to bite or sting other players. ___ # of stings and you die. Bites would have different effects than stings, so stings are more lethal. Think of this game as the Bang of bugs. Like Bang, I think that it would be fun to have a card that means certain death that gets passed around, like a black widow card. Some other cards could involve players developing allergic reactions that makes them less resistant to be able to take medicine to combat stings. Some roles or characters could include an entomologist, bug collector, exterminator, and a curious child. This would all have different advantages and effects, but unlike Bang, players don’t need to figure out each other’s roles and base their strategies upon that. 
2. The Lamp is a board game in which moths (the players) compete to earn the most points by landing on spaces and collecting cards, being careful not to advance too far and touch the lamp.
   • In this game, players play as moths trying to get as close to the lamp as possible, without ever actually reaching it or they will be eliminated from the game. This board game has a board that is similar to your standard follow-the-path-to-the-end board game like Candyland, but you don’t actually want to reach the end. Players accumulate points based on the different spaces that they land on on the board and a winner is determined by whoever has the highest number of points at the end of the game (think Game of Life). Players choose themselves when they want to stop playing. For instance, if they feel like they don’t want to risk rolling the dice and potentially reaching the lamp, they can choose to end the game for themselves right there, but they won’t earn any more points. What makes it a little more challenging is that there is two dice—one normal 1-6 die and one with different actions on them. These different actions will indicate a number of things, some of which will force the players to move more or less than what is indicated on the number die. The player who gets the closest to the lamp without touching it will be awarded special bonus points at the end of the game. 
3. Kitchen Antarchy is a card game in which chefs (the players) compete to earn the most points by cooking dishes and containmating other players’ dishes with bugs. 
   • Kitchen Antarchy is a card game where players must try to cook dishes while trying to stop other players from cooking dishes by contaminating their ingredients with bugs. One of the components of this game are ingredient cards. Both sides of the card show the food ingredients. However one side is contaminated and the other is uncontaminated. To cook a dish, players must slowly add ingredients to a pot, only allowed to place 1 each turn. This gives the other players plenty of time to contaminate their dish. Depending on the specific dish being cooked, the dish can be completed despite an ingredient or two being contaminated, however those dishes are worth less points at the end of the game. The game ends when one player has cooked 7 dishes, but the winner is points-based. 
4. Bug Collector is a card game in which players compete to complete their bug collection first by collecting bugs that fit certain requirements for their collection.
   • This is a card game where players race to complete their bug specimen collection first. There are certain requirements to their bug collection like they most have one arachnid, one moth, etc. These requirements are player specific and are determined by randomly dealing requirement cards to players. When players collect an insect, they can play it by placing it on their own board. I’m open for suggestions about how player  can possibly obtain these cards in a unique way to make it a little more interesting and challenging. I see this more as a “cozy” game, if that makes sense. 
5. The Game of Lice (pun on Game of Life) is a board game in which lice (the players) compete to reproduce the most by navigating through the life of a louse.
   • The Game of Lice involves playing as a louse, with your goal to be to reproduce as much as possible to terrorize the heads of unsuspecting humans. Playing off the Game of Life, the houses would be the heads of humans. You need a head before you can start reproducing. Also like the Game of Life, there would be so many “egg” squares where you get lice children. Whoever has the most lice at the end of the game wins. Some spaces and cards may set your lice population back such as a failed lice treatment. 
6. Mothopoly is an economic board game in which players compete to have a monopoly on their collection of bugs] by collecting sets of bugs.
   • Obviously a play on Monopoly, instead of collecting properties, you would collect different bugs or moths. I’m not entirely sure what the other spaces like “Free Parking” or “Jail” would be called at the moment.
7. Invading Insects (repost w/ some elaboration) is a legacy board game in which the players collaborate to stop the invasive bug species from taking over by killing bugs in strange but effective ways. Some of these weird methods could include blasting them with music, spraying them with hairspray, using a hydraulic press, a Saw trap for bugs, etc. 
8. Garden Sabotage! (repost) is a card game in which gardeners (aka the players) compete to have the best garden by planting plants and sabotaging others with bugs.