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Documentation for The Mow Masters

rules:

Mow Masters!

Objective:

  • The objective of the game is to get as many grass points/cards as you and your opponent mow all the grass on the board in order to end the game. 

Materials needed:

  • Board
  • Grass cards
  • Setback cards
  • Two dice
  • meebles  (marks which space/tile was mowed already)
  • Paper and pencil to keep track of score
  • Iphone timer

Setup:

  • Take all of the cards and shuffle them into one deck and place them in a empty space on the board.
  • The tallest player will start the game or be the first turn.

Turn:

  • Both players are going simultaneously
  • The player will roll one dice, and move the amount of spaces of that number on the dice.
  • The player can go anywhere on the board, no restrictions.
  • The player will pick a card for each space they move. For example, they roll a 2 and move 2 spaces hence pick up 2 cards. 
  • After you have moved (mowed) a space, you will mark it with a x  or a meeble.

(you can still use this space to move around in it but you can not get a card from it.)

Ex: rolls the dice and gets 3, but â…” spaces are mowed already. So, you can only pick up one card. 

  • If you pick up a card that has a setback, you will have to complete the task on the card in order to continue. 
  • You have approx. 25 seconds to complete the 
  1. Out of gas 
  2. Nebby neighbor 
  3. Dinner time
  4. Reapply sunscreen
  • You do not have a time limit with:
  1. Mower broke
  2. Dog poop on the blade
  • If you do not complete the setback challenge within the time constraints then you have to remove one grass card point from your pile. 

Winning/Losing:

  • Once the whole lawn is mowed, and there is no more space to collect cards then the game is over.
  • Count up your points, and the points win.

Some changes I made in Mow Masters was adding more setbacks and sabotages. A lot of the players gave me feedback on changing the setbacks since the game was too easy in a sense. I made a lot of alterations regarding the design of the board. I wanted to make it super unique and curvy, but it wasn’t making sense when the game was being played. So, I switched it around and changed the color which was to boring and wasn’t the best design. I finally stopped when the board was just in hashes to give the players a sense of what the board is and how it applies to game.

In the future, I would love to rework only roll 1 dice and two dice for challenges. As well as, adding a sand timer to pick up the pace in the game.

I would say that this is my least favorite game. The rules weren’t really making sense in my brain, and I kind of got frustrated with the design of the board. Overall, I did get get feedback so I was pleased with that.