OR, you could spent about $5 on ebay for the actual game above. Did you calculate how much time it would take to put stars on 31 dice?

i believe liars dice was a game long before someone published it. kinda like, "make your own go fish game by grabbing a deck of cards"

I've played Liar's Dice a bunch of times (with a bunch of normal D6) and this is the first time I even heard of there being a game board for it. What function does it serve?

If not Spanish, this is certainly a popular Spanish game. The Spaniard traditionally spends a lot of time in bars and is a slow drinker, has to be, the bars don't close until the last client feels like going home (or collapses in the corner) and they have more card and dice games than a boardgamegeek convention, not only that, they have cool poker dice (King, Queen, Jack, Red, Black, Ace) and really cool decks of cards (like tarot, the coins, the cups, the wands and the swords) which they often use in decks of 40.

If you know Spanish or have access to someone who knows spanish, look up juegos de dados, or maybe I'll get back on comps this summer and translate for you guys

My dog chewed up one of these indestructible cups.

No it's not. There are no 1s. I only spotted that last week too!

It's obvious this game was developed with a deck of cards. The lack of Aces is pretty easy to explain- they were made into the board.

So...'what' is the '5th' suit comprised of? WOOL or POLYESTER?

Yes, you can buy decks with five suits, but unless you have it already it probably costs as much as actually buying lost cities.
You could probably just play it with 4 lost cities and a normal deck for a slightly shorter lower scroing game.

And yes the Aces are the board, and the face cards the multiplier hands. I thought of that the first time I played the game. I thought it was obvious, but I guess maybe it isn't.

GROAN!

Well, with the bicycle cards that I have, I can use some of my large print cards for the extra suit.

Not only that, but if you don't want to spend the time to come up with 160+ adjectives yourself, you can get the list that Brettspielwelt uses right here: http://www.brettspielwelt.de/en/Hilfe/Anleitungen/Attribut/t...

Heck, for that matter you could do up Magic: The Gathering. Any card game could be duped.

I'm pretty sure a lot of people already do that. I've done it.

I know of two people who have made their own sets. The better of the two used an existing AtoA set and lots of scratch paper.

The judge would draw an existing AtoA green card and have everyone write down an answer for the new red card. Once there is a suitable pool of red cards, the process was reversed. The judge would write down a new green card and everyone would play one of the new red card from their hand. Between plays the scratch papers were culled and placed into card sleeves. There are also a number of blanks in both decks to keep the process going.

This game has lots of very strange cards, with many references to gaming, rpgs, anime, computers, cult movies & TV. It's rude, crude and only occasionally makes sense (even to the people that created it).

Out of the Box have actually published an official "Create your own cards" version of Apples to Apples!

http://www.otb-games.com/apples/apples_blank.html

We have LOTS of picture flash cards from different editions in many shapes and sizes.
When I found out how simple this game was we played Apples To Apples with them. We needed picture cards for the smaller kids who cannot read.

Now sells for less than $20 at Target.

Or just buy the real thing at a thrift store for less than the cost of a Big Mac.

When I worked at a copy shop serveral years ago, I had quite a few people who would bring in homemade boards to be copied and laminated. It set them back about $15 total.

You only need half a full sized deck to make a board for this. Simply cut the cards in half before you glue them down.

It actually does matter how the board is laid out, as each card has two possible locations that it relates to. By changing the board you change the relative position and distance between those two locations.

You can pick up mini card decks at the "everything's a dollar" store, 2 decks per package.

The Farkle/10,000 games also produced Cosmic Wimpout, another game that might fit this list well.

To quote "Bill Martinson": "...or, you could BUY a 'Big Mac' at a 'Thrift Store', for about the same price!"

GROGnads, that was hillarious.

or rather, to *misquote* "Bill Martinson": [...]

This one might be worth it, but I'm hoping the new version comes out soon.

Before the new version comes out, I've played this game using a Sticheln deck and some chips from Geschenkt or wherever.

That is, of course, "werewolves", not "werewolve's". Maybe I should start using that preview button.

I just had more fun making my own cards (using blank business cards and a pen) with stick figure art than I probably will have playing the game. =)

I just thought I'd chime in and say that although we still use our homemade deck, I have purchased two copies of Lupus in Tabula for friends, and they seem to love them. Since we rarely use any optional roles, it still seems like a bad purchase for my group.

I have made a Star Trek theme deck of cards (with shapeshifters and betazoids).

Are you familiar with 1000 Blank White Cards?

It's a very nice game, but I'd looove to have a copy of the MB version Quandary. Puhleease.

I know where to buy a copy of Quandary, but I am not willing to pay the full $45 retail that this particular vendor is still asking for it. The game is good, but it isn't $45 good!

It may not be worth Quandry’s prices, but it is certainly worth the price of Loco.

Quandary is quite possibly the most over-produced game ever (the Franklin Mint editions of classic games are also in the running, although that's the point of those editions). I sold mine for a good amount, and acquired Flinke Pinke for about $5.00, and never looked back. Flinke Pinke has the exact same gameplay (while occupying 95% less shelf space), and plays with up to 5. I think Quandary only went to four.

Get a Rage deck and some chips/tokens/buttons.

Oops!! Make that 11 tracks. It's been a long day.

Er, and that's two pairs of dice. And 11 markers for each player. And three pawns.

Still pretty trivial, but there's a little more to it than you let on.

My wife and I draw the board on a scrap piece of paper. Then you just need 4 dice, 3 temporary markers (e.g. coins), and a different color pen per player.

Check out out version. I made it before I found a thrift copy. If anyone is interested I uploaded an AutoCAD fileto the Geek.

This file doesn't work unless one has autocad, right?

Umm, wrong. It's free, not public domain. There's a big difference.

UPDATE: The game is no longer free, but the PDF downloads of individual scenarios are inexpensive, and the scenarios also are available in pre-printed books, all for purchase at the website, GHOULASH.com. In addition, there's a simplified sample scenario for free download.

Very cool.

Wants it

What was your final investment?

Here you find a alternative Boardgamedesign for a download (a long with some nice other stuff): http://www.terra.es/personal2/u.roth/home.htm

To totally MIS-quote "Bill Martinson": "...about the SAME 'price' as a 'Big Store' at a 'Thrift Mac'!"

The posterboard cost around $2.00, the pawns were $3.00, and all the rest I had laying around.

Oh, I forgot the stamp. It was around $2.50.

My favorite card game. Go Li Yih!

There's a big problem with trying to play Mah Jongg with printed cards -- you don't get the clatter of tiles, the whole tactile thing. Heck, "mah jongg" means "the chittering of the sparrows"!