Chess Board Game Ideas
- A Piece of Cake
Players start with an 8×8 square chess board. Roll a die and go to the square with the corresponding number or a multiple of that number. Each turn, a player must remove a square from the board itself. Choose your steps wisely. - Players start with a 2×2 square chess board. The game includes action cards, a die, tokens, and player pieces. If a card reveals an action such as roll the die. The player must roll and place their player piece on the board corresponding to the die roll. Board squares include instant death, resurrection, one token, or a shield to protect you for one round.
- Sushi Master
The game includes 4 4×12 square chess-like boards, 48 sushi pieces (flat round graphic discs), and a deck of cards. 2 to 4 players can play and start by choosing their preferred sushi roll. Each turn a player must pick up a card and complete the action. The first player to fill their sushi board wins. Players could use real sushi if desired. - Lactose or Intolerant
Players start with a 6×6 square chess board, choose a dairy token, and pick up a card each turn. There are 3 decks. According to the square you go to, pick up a card for the deck labeled the same. You can only take 4 hits of dairy before you’re eliminated. - Musical Square
Players work with an 8×8 square chess board and decks. Players land a square of the same numbered deck and must answer questions on the musical genre. The first player to collect 5 cards wins. Musical genre decks include rock/alt, pop, international, country, classical, rap, jazz, and metal.
Game Reviews
Dominion is a card game in which players must build their decks and use their current hands to their advantage. We started the game very skeptical of the many decks and purposes of cards. As we played we each slowly pick a strategy of cards we should buy or get rid of. The pacing of the game seemed well divided between the beginning, middle, and end of gameplay. We start slow in order to learn the rules and grow confident in the system by adding cards to our decks. The middle of the game seemed to be when we ran out of the first or second deck of cards. The end felt near when each player started scrambling for estate cards before the third deck ran out. No one really could tell who was the winner until each counted their estate cards.
Munchkin Gloom is a card game whose theme is a miserable story for each character. Players goals are actually to kill their own characters before the other players. This humorous game can be fairly competitive and fast-paced with each player only having 4 characters to kill. Each action card and retaliation card adds an interesting storyline or twist that makes the game a fun experience.