Ames' syllabi

Players 2-5

SET UP: Pick the stack that you want to play with and shuffle them with the language NOT in English face up. Lay out all 50 cards in a grid face up

Gameplay:

This is a pretty traditional matching game but obviously instead of remembering where pictures are, you are trying to remember the translation of the words that you are gradually learning throughout the game.

Each turn players attempt to make matches. Every turn, the player flips over two cards.

On their turn, a player flips over a card and reads the translation. They then pick up their second card by trying to find the match to the English word on the back. If the second card does not match the first card THEY PUT BOTH CARDS BACK WHERE THEY ORGINALLY WERE with the NON-English word face up.

FOR EXAMPLE – player 1 flips a card that says “perro” on it. The back reads “dog”. The player then scans the grid trying to see EITHER if they know another word for dog or if a previous player had flipped over the word “dog” before and they remember where it is.

Players take turn attempting to make matches until the grid has been completely matched.

HOW TO WIN:

Players with the most matches wins.

Congrats! You either already know another language or are good at memorizing places on a game board!

possible ALTERNATIVE PLAY:

1. If a matching game seems too boring, here’s another idea to spice it up a little bit.

Instead of taking a turn by trying to find a match by flipping over two cards, there will be an extra “hard” section of words above the matching grid that IF YOU KNOW OR CAN GUESS THE WORD counts as an additional match in your hand. However, guessing wrong does not remove the card from the game but you must reveal your guess and put it back above the grid if you guess incorrectly. The potential then is that other players have the opportunity to steal these bonus cards, narrowing down the meaning. 

2. If there is a tie OR just if you want to keep the matches with the NON English words face up and shuffle the card and whoever remembers the most meanings gets an extra point or the number of points for that number of cards guessed right (by the players discretion)

Changes to be made (for the final):

delete the previous alternative endings – they’re not very natural

ADD possible ALTERNATIVE PLAY/ENDING:

At the end of the traditional matching game, shuffle all cards back together and designate one player to flip a card over in front of all players with non-English side face up and whoever correctly remembers (or guesses) the most English translations

create pictures of English words and put translations on all non-english words for people to pronounce

clarify that you take another turn (limit 2 extra turns) after getting a correct match – what to do when there is a tie

comments were made about different versions being fun potentially

NO GOOGLE TRANSLATE

little flags in the corner for design purposes and countries of origin for the words

Thoughts on Playtesting:

I play tested this in class and with my sister and it went similarly both times – i think it flows nicely but could be a lot of fun with different versions – i tried several different alternative endings with my sister which was informative on how i want to “finalize” it – both times people wanted pronunciations for all words which I definitely will do.

Final Presenation Version:

ALTERNATIVE PLAY/ENDING:

At the end of the traditional matching game, shuffle all tiles back together and designate one player to flip the tiles over in front of all players with non-English side face up. Once the stack runs out, see who correctly remembered (or guessed) the most English translations!

Use this alternative ending to resolve (1) ties (2) language practice or (3) just for fun!

Madison Hurst

The AlleyWay Pharmacy

Idea: The Alleyway Pharmacy is a card game in which the players are drug dealers competing against other drug dealers where they have to collect various drugs to resell. The kick to it is, the drug dealers have to make sure whether the drugs they collected are real and not candy. If they are caught using candy (x amount of times) then they will go to jail (lose).

Objective: 

• Players are rival dealers that are fighting for the same street block. They are competing to make the most profit by reselling drugs while avoiding fake ones (candy). To win, the player must be the first to reach the profit goal ($20,000) or by the last one that didn’t get busted. 

Materials needed:

• Deck of cards:

• Drug cards
• Candy cards
• Action cards

• Profit tracker (score pad)
• Busted disk trackers
• Rules sheet
• Your hand for your cards
• Stash (faced down pile on the table)

Setup:

• Shuffle cards into one deck which will become the draw pile
• Each player will draw 3 cards that will be their starting hand 
• Give each player 3 busted tokens
• Have a space for the discard pile
• Discuss what the profit goal will be for this game (default is $20,000)
• The tallest player will go first

Insight:

• Hand: these are the cards you can see and choose from (max. Card limit is 5)
• Stash: cards you placed face down on the table (max card limit is 6)
• Profit tracker: how much money you are at
• Busted tokens: track how many times you had a candy drug (3=jail and you lost the game)

Turns:

• Draw 1 card from the draw pile

You will then move into your action part of your turn:

• You can choose one action play

• Options:

• Play a drug: place 1 card from your hand to you stash pile (face down)
• Play an action: use it immediately (sneak, inspect, etc)
• Slip a fake drug (sneak): Put a card from your hand (candy or real drug) to an opponents stash pile (face down) 
• Pass (take no action)

• Resell (You can resell if you think you have 3 of the same cards in your stash)
• If you have all 3 of the same drug, then you will earn a profit based on the value of the drug type. After, you have collected your points you will discard this set

1 Candy drug:

If you have a 1 candy drug  in your stash during RESELL, then your resell fails (even if you have 3 of the same drug) and the player will take a penalty. 

Penalty: Lose ½ of the profit or discard 1 random hand card

• Discard the candy card after 

2 or more Candy drug:

If the player has 2 or more candy drugs in their stash during resell then resell fails, and collect 1 bust token. Discard all candy cards 

Check hand and stash number:

• If you have more than 5 cards in your hand, discard extras
• If you have more the 6 cards in your hand, discard extras

Out of turn options:

Players are able to play an action card during another players turn

• Inspect: peek at only one card in a players stash
• Steal: Force a player to reveal one of their stash cards 
• Snitch: take one random card from an opponent’s hand 
• Hideout: block a sabotage or inspection against you 

Win/Lose:

• Be the first person to reach the profit goal
• Be the last person standing, if the other opponents went to jail
• Player is out of the game if they received 3 bust tokens

Card Meanings:

• Inspect: peek at only one card in a players stash
• Steal: Force a player to reveal one of their stash cards 
• Snitch: take one random card from an opponent’s hand 
• Hideout: block a sabotage or inspection against you 
• Sneak: place 1 card from your hand to an opponent’s stash
• Swap: trade 1 card from your stash with 1 from an opponent’s stash (face down)

Drug Values:

• Weed set: $3,000 
• Pill set: $5,000
• Coke set: $7,000
• Heroin set: $10,000