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Tile or Card Games that can be adapted to paper and pencil games
Claude Goeminne
South Africa
Polokwane
Limpopo
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I have spent some time getting some of the kids I teach interested in boardgames and would like to expand the games that are available. I have converted Samurai, Medina and Through the Desert fairly successfully to pencil and paper versions (see http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/cg23/Paper_and_Pencil_Gam...) which make it much cheaper and easier to work with in class and encourage interest in the Wargames Club on some afternoons. I am looking for recommendations for other tile-laying or card games that I could similarly modify to fit on to paper like the ones mentioned above. Any and all suggestions would be welcome (as would commentary on the games I have already modified)
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Board Game: Ra
[Average Rating:7.60 Overall Rank:48]
Paul Blake
United States
Westerville
Ohio
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I created a pencil and paper version of Ra, which I have uploaded, but which has not (as of 12-14-05) been cleared. It will soon, I'm sure.
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Paul Blake
United States
Westerville
Ohio
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I created a pencil & paper version of Stephenson's Rocket, which I have uploaded, but which has not yet (as of 12-14-05) been cleared. Hopefully it will soon.
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Board Game: Twixt
[Average Rating:6.60 Overall Rank:838]
Simon Hunt
United States
Roseville
California
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Many years ago, I used to play Twixt on a grid of dots printed out on computer output paper. I remember playing a game every lunchtime with a co-worker, for several months. It works pretty well if you ignore the rule about removing links. (We never had that situation arise in the many games we played).
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lisa smith
United States
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Six games by Sackson that are already paper and pencil games
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lisa smith
United States
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Six cooperative paper and pencil boardgames by Sackson
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lisa smith
United States
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Six cooperative paper and pencil boardgames by Sackson
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lisa smith
United States
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just come up with 8 different diagrams for the pieces that vary in 4 qualities, doesn't even have to be the 4 qualities in the game (see SET quarto for example)
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lisa smith
United States
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This ones more a logic puzzle than a boardgame but logic puzzles might also be good for a school setting.
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Board Game: Hex
[Average Rating:6.78 Overall Rank:1427]
Francisco J. Piña A.
Chile
Calama
Antofagasta
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This one works perfectly as a pen & paper game
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Jordan Block
Canada
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British Columbia
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Does this count? The official pen and paper version of Settlers.
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José Carlos de Diego
Spain
Zaragoza
Zaragoza
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Puzzle Train is a boardgame 'german type' (puzzle slide-game) for 4 players design by José Carlos de Diego Guerrero, based in Puzzle Railroad pc-game by XD Games and it is a crossover of Mississippi Queen and Carcassonne.
This game was published in the magazine Tabula #6 (in spanish).
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José Carlos de Diego
Spain
Zaragoza
Zaragoza
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Café Race is a race game set in a business office, design by Fran F Garea. The players take the role of office workers going upstairs to the first floor to get a cup of coffee who then improvise a race while they are going back downstairs… with a cup full of coffee. The player that makes it to the bottom of the stairs and spills the least amount of coffee wins.
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Claude Goeminne
South Africa
Polokwane
Limpopo
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I found this Knizia game, I haven't played it but it looks good for a conversion. Anyone have any comments?
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Paul Blake
United States
Westerville
Ohio
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Auf Heller & Pfennig lends itself quite well to the P&P format. You can either use a randomization table for the tiles, or play the pure-strategy version. Not tough at all.
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Paul Blake
United States
Westerville
Ohio
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Not only -can- it be played P&P, the original version was almost entirely P&P. You'd just need to keep track of how many materials and how much money a person had from month to month, and the cost of raw materials. Simple.
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Claude Goeminne
South Africa
Polokwane
Limpopo
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I have been playing this game at Boiteajeux and realized that it would make an excellent conversion.
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Board Game: Trax
[Average Rating:6.60 Overall Rank:1559]
Default User
United States
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Either you need two colours of pen or (simpler to draw but more confusing) use squared paper and simply draw a diagonal line in each square to divide it into two regions. Draw both diagonals for the cross piece.
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Board Game: Devet
[Average Rating:5.00 Unranked]
Michael B.
Canada
Stratford
Ontario
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Already available as a print and play game, this abstract tile laying strategy game can be played on any piece of graph paper limiting the players to the "tile" selection available. Make a frame to create the 6x6 grid area (because the area that the game is played in can float).
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Cromwell
Connecticut
Polokwane
Limpopo
I have enjoyed the discussion that this list has encouraged and hope to see some of Thedalek's (Paul) work. Clearly some serious thinking has gone into the conversions and the possible implications of such.
I want to differ slightly from his approach though so let me give you a background. I enjoyed playing various pen and pencil games but found them fundementally unsatisfying like noughts and crosses against yourself.
What I enjoy about gaming is assessing a game situation and then making a meaningful response to it. I was disappointed when I looked for this experience on the net finding only two games that had been developed recently and neither adequately met my requirements (Goulash and some Russian Numbers Game)
A friend of mine from work and I play on a regular basis but sometimes it is impractical to play so we exchange turns via the P&P versions I have modified.
Thus my thinking is slightly different to that of Paul's: I think many of the games can be modified to P&P despite the fact that they may be changed in the conversion - I am looking for the game experience even if the flavour is slightly different.
So I will tackle the T&E challenge though, as Paul warns, it is not practical to expect it to work as it stands now. On the other hand some Game is better than no Game at all.
Westerville
Ohio
Goulash is interesting, but is really nothing more than glorified Battleship. One player hides things, the other player seeks/avoids them blindly.
The Russian Numbers Game you refer to: Could that be Sudoku (which is, in fact, American in origin, rather than Japanese as the name suggests)? If so, I might suggest other games currently licensed by Nikoli? Check out http://www.puzzle.jp for more of these.
Understand that these P&P versions are not meant to be solitaire versions of games, but conversions of games so as to be playable with a pencil, paper, and the requisite number of players (and possibly, as is the case with some of my conversions, dice).
Polokwane
Limpopo
http://www.oflameron.ru/reg/
It is okay but seems dry and a little too luck based in my opinion.
BTW Paul, Have your submissions been approved yet?
Moscow
http://word.oflameron.ru - about game and free download
http://www.oflameron.ru/allcards.htm - all cards gallery
http://www.oflameron.ru/document.htm - documentation
http://play-cards.narod.ru/cards.html - playing cards images in Adobe Photoshop PSD format. Free download
http://builder.oflameron.ru/ - papers game form builder. Free download builder and visual basic code.
Best regards!
Valery V Shmeleff
Oflameron game author