Time is money, money is fame

COMPONENTS:
60 cards
36 action cards
24 special cards
clock as a game board with a hour hand and minute hand

CARDS
36 Action cards show three parameters: Victory Points, Money and Time in three values 1, 2 or 3 in any possible combination. (eg. 1/2/3 or 3/2/3 etc.)
2x12 Special cards show special scoring what may occur during the game (f.e. each time the minute hand indicates "9" at the end of the turn score 3 points)

SETUP:
Place the board in the middle of the table. It´s 12 o´clock
shuffle the cards and deal 3 cards for each player as a starting hand. Place the rest of the cards near the board as a draw deck.
Dealer´s left neighbor is the first starting player.

GAMEPLAY
Starting player choose the parameter and play one card face-down on the table. each other player play one card face-down on the table.
Players simultanously reveal the cards.
Player with the best value in chosen parameter scores as many points as the value shows in this parameter.
If tied all those players score with the parameter.
Remaining players score the other two parameters as many points as the values show.

Scoring the VP-s player places the card face-up in in front of him.
Scoring the Money player draws as many cards from the draw deck as the value on the card.
Scoring the Time the minute hand moves as many steps on the clock as the value on the card.

(example: 1st player choose money and play the card VP=2 / Money=1 / Time=3. 2nd player plays the card 3/1/1. 3rd player plays the card 2/2/1.
3rd player has the best value and he draws 2 cards. 1st and 3rd players score 2 VPs-s. Clock moves 3+1=4 moves (20 minutes)

Playing the special card player places it in front of him.
If during the game the condition on the card is fulfilled player draws a top card from the draw deck and places it face-down in his playarea.

The player with the best value in the chosen parameter is the next starting player. If tied the next player in clockwise is the next starting player.

Game ends if the draw deck is exhausted or 12 hours have passed.
Player adds up the values of VP-s from the cards in front of them and 3 VP-s for each face-down card.
Who has the most points is the winner.

Random element.
The process how the time is ticking is "quite" a random and sometimes the scoring happens "quite" a randomly if the time is right!

Hostile Robot

Components

Robot Game Board - This board has a standard humanoid robot form on it with a circuit board on its body. From the processor there are color coded wires that are connected to different parts of the body (arms, hands, legs, feet, head, eyes etc.). In this game, players will cut these wires to break the circuit.

**Inserts* – There are many interchangeable inserts that can used in this game. During play, only 1 insert is used for the Function and Player Spinners. A new insert is drawn each turn for the Wire Spinner. Therefore, there are many inserts that will be shuffled and stacked face down (as a draw pile) before the game starts.

All spinners are customizable by exchanging the inserts

Wire Spinner – these have colors relating to wires on the circuit board. Each insert presents a different set of probabilities (eg. one insert might be 45% red, 20% yellow, 20% blue, and 5% green). Think of a pie chart if you’re having a hard time picturing it.

Robot Function Spinner – The robot function spinner insert is double sided with a variety of actions (punch, kick, laser eyes). Each of these functions requires different parts of the robot body to be executed.

Player Spinner – A different insert is used based on the number of players in the game. Each player has an equal probability of being chosen.

How to Play

To start the game, spin the Player Spinner to see who goes first. On a players turn they do the following:

1. Wire Spinner – On a players turn, they will take an insert from the draw pile and choose one of the following:

   A. Spin first then change the insert

   B. Change the insert then spin

   C. Spin and discard the insert

2. Cutting Wires – After using the Wire Spinner, the player will know which color wire they can cut. Wires are two toned, so players have a choice of wires to cut. When the player chooses a wire to cut, they place a marker over it to indicate a break in the connection. The robot can’t use this function any longer.

3. Robot Function – Next, spin the Robot Function Spinner. If any of the required body parts has been disarmed (broken circuit), the robot can’t perform the action. A function that uses more body parts will also do more damage. If the function is possible, spin the player spinner to see who is inflicted with the damage. Keep track of damage taken.
4. After each round, the player has the choice of flipping the robot spinner insert or not. Each side has different robot functions.

End of Game The game ends when the robot has been completely disarmed (all circuits broken). Count up the damage taken. The player with the least amount of damage is the winner.

Arctic dissection

Due to global warming, all the ice on the north pole has melted. Besides the ecological disasters, one advantage of this is that it is easier to travel through this region by ship. Due to new legislations, several countries try to claim the waters surrounding the north pole.

Board
The board consists of the arctic region, with a big spinner on the location of the north pole. A circle indicates the edge of the arctic region. The lands surrounding this region do not play a role in the game, it is the sea that counts.

Gameplay
The goal of the game is to score as many points as possible. The game is meant for 2 players. Each player takes the role of an arctic country, let's use Canada and Russia in this example. The starting player (e.g. Canada) starts by spinning twice. He puts two black pawns on the locations on the arctic circle that were indicated by the spinner. He can then choose to either claim all waters between these pawns as his territory and give the rest of the arctic to Russia, or give these waters to Russia and claim the rest of the arctic as his own territory. So the whole arctic circle will be divided in two circle segments, one for Canada and one for Russia. Claiming a territory is done by placing a pawn of your colour between two black pawns, on the water.

After this first turn, it is Russia's turn. He spins once, and puts a black pawn on the arctic circle on the location that was indicated by the spinner. If this region belonged to Russia, Russia gains 1 point, but Canada will be the next one to spin again. If this location belonged to Canada, Canada gains 1 point, but Russia will be the next one to spin. After placing the black pawn, the region is split at the location of this black spawn. Russia can choose which part of the region to claim and which part to give to Canada, independently of who the region belonged to in the first place.

Then the next player (either Canada again, or Russia) spins. A new black pawn is placed at the location indicated by the spinner, the owner of the region gets a point, the region is again split in two at the location of the black pawn (as decided by the player who took the spin), and the player who did not get a point can take the next spin. This is repeated until 15 points have been earned in total. The player with the most points at the end of the game, wins.

Note that claiming a larger region gives you the advantage of being more likely to earn a point, but whenever you earn a point you cannot spin, giving you less control over the game. Players have to think carefully about this trade-off.

Word Drop

Two players.

Overview

In the beginning of your turn, let the spinner decide what additional cards you will get into hand. In the end of your turn, the spinner drops all cards from one of the nine places. Was it your valuable hand, which happened to be in that doomed place?

Components

A spinner, 9 sectors (some sectors are slightly wider than others) A deck of cards, 1 letter / card

Set-up

Put the spinner on the table. Shuffle the letter cards and place the deck face down. Take one card and place it somewhere near to be the first in the discard pile. Draw 6 cards and deliver them face up around the spinner.

A Turn

Draw 6 cards. That's your hand now.

Run the spinner once. Take all cards that are in the sector where the needle points. You can add those cards into your hand. If there weren't any, you have to please with 6 card hand.

Form a word or two. Put your words in one of the empty sectors. Deliver extra cards how you want to. There are eight other sectors and you can place all extra cards in one place or one here, other there. Don't let the preceeding cards disturb. Just add cards.

Run the spinner for the second time on this turn. Remove all cards to the discard pile from the sector where the needle points.

If some sector still has a word or two, grab them and keep them. As you need long words, when points shall be counted in the end of the game. You can grab words only from one sector on one turn.

Your turn is over.

Counting Points

• A four letter word - 4 points
• A five letter word - 5
• A six letter word - 8
• A seven letter word - 10
• Eight and longer - letter count plus 4

Fishing float

Catch fish by throwing your float. Sell the fish for money or victory points.

Material:

• 6-Sided spinner, type children’s toy
• Fishing pond game board, divided in circles like target
• Player mats
• Improvement tiles
• Money tokens
• Victory point tokens

Players take turn clockwise. A turn has four fases:

1. Spin and catch fish
2. Sell fish
3. Discard
4. Buy improvements

Spin and catch fish

Players spin the float. They need to start it at the edge of the fishing pond, and must try to spin it towards the centre. The spinner result decides the type of fish caught; the area where the point of the spinner ends decides how many fish. Closer to the centre means more fish, ranging from 2 to 5. Landing outside the pond yields one fish.

There are three types of fish: red (1 side of spinner), blue (2 sides) and yellow (3 sides). On the player mat is shown what each fish is worth:

• 1 red fish = 1 victory point
• 1 blue fish = 1 dollar
• 1 yellow fish = nothing yet

The active player can trade fish at ratio 3:1 at any time during his turn. Fish cannot be traded between players.

Sell fish

After spinning and taking fish, the players can sell one type of fish. They must sell all fish of the same colour at once. This yields money and/or victory points, but possibly nothing.

Discard

Any fish above five must be discarded. Trading 3:1 to get to five fish is allowed.

Buy improvements

With improvements the selling result of fish will be better, or more fish can be kept in the discard fase. There are five random improvements available.

Improvements that are bought are placed on the players mat.

Per type of fish there are improvements to yield more money, yield more victory points, have better trade ratio, or catch more fish per spin. General improvements are: store more fish, throw spinner again (once per turn, second result counts), and buy improvements for less gold.

Players may buy one improvement, if not, the improvement that is available the longest time is discarded. A new improvement is added to have five available.

Example: The improvement to have a red fish yield a dollar (more) will cost less than the one to yield a yellow fish a victory point.

Winning

When a player reaches 30 victory points the round is finished. The player with the most victory points wins.

Warriors of Spinaria

Summary

Spin your way to victory in this card game of troop management and strategy for 2-4 players! You control a team of Wizards, Dwarves and Elves, battling their way against strange creatures and testing their wits against the other warriors of the realm. Will you survive? Spin to find out…

Game Components

(1) Spinner (see description below)
(52) Creature Cards
(72) Warrior Cards (24 Wizards, 24 Dwarves, 24 Elves)

Important Notes about Cards:
Creature Cards: Each Creature Card will display an attack and a defense value for use in combat, a victory point value, as well as any special abilities (such as attacking first, or extra damage against…)
Warrior Cards: Each Warrior Card will also display an attack and a defense value for use in combat against creatures, as well as a fortitude value for use in combat against other warriors, a victory point value, and any special abilities that warrior has.
*Note* There will be a standing advantage for ALL warriors of certain races against other races (ex. +1 fortitude for Dwarves against Elves, +1 fortitude for Elves against Wizards, etc.)

Game Setup

Randomly choose a player to go first. Shuffle each deck separately. Deal each player two cards face down from each deck except the Basic Creature Deck, for a hand of six cards. Place the remaining decks and the Creatures Deck face down and all other game components in a central location.

Turn Structure

1) Spin! 2) Combat! 3) Resolve!

Spin: Each of the 12 spaces on the spinner correspond to one of the decks (6 creature spaces, 2 each of all others.) The spin will determine which deck you *will* draw from. Choose a warrior card from your hand to use in combat – place it face up in front of you.

Combat: Draw the top card of the corresponding deck and place it face up.
For Creatures: Compare the attack/defense values; you attack first unless otherwise stated.
For Warriors: Compare the fortitude values.

Resolve:
For Creatures: If the creature wins, discard your warrior and the creature. If you win, collect the creature and leave it face up in front of you.
*Note* If the attack value is equal to or greater than the defense value, the attack succeeds.
For Warriors: If the other warrior wins, discard both warriors. If you win, collect the new warrior and place both back into your hand.
*Note* In the event of any fortitude ties or stalemated creature battles, your warrior is stunned! Tap the card; it can be returned to your hand after the Spin phase of your next turn.

Game End

Play continues clockwise until: one of the four decks is exhausted or any player discards their last warrior. Complete the round in which this happens, finishing play with the player before the first player. If a card spun is not available, players will draw from the creature deck.

Players add up the victory point values of all creatures they’ve defeated and all warriors still left in their hands. The player with the most points wins!

Fate and the Wheel of Fortune

Some believe the Fates to be three old witches arbitrarily deciding our fate, but what if they leave it to chance? To a giant wheel of fortune perhaps? Can you survive the hands of fate's wheels? Become a demi-god in charge of protecting your continent from the fickle finger of fate and see who can hold off destiny and keep their population intact.

Goal:

To be the demi-god with the largest population of followers intact after the third peaceful episode on the planet or one continent is totally eliminated from the game.

Number of players: 2-4

Components:

• 1 Large spinner divided into twelve spaces, eleven spaces are disasters while one space represents peaceful results. Disasters are color coded (red is disease: three spaces, Flu Epidemic, Bubonic Plague, Black Death; blue: Water disasters: Flood, Ice Storm; gray: Tornado, Volcanic Eruption, Earthquake; orange: Fire, War, Meteor Strike; White: Peace.
• 1 spinner divided into 8 spaces, one space for each continent (Europe, Asia, N. America, S. America, Africa, Australia and two spaces representing the world
• 1 spinner with twelve spaces each representing a number of people (2 spaces of 500,000, 1,000,000, 1,500,000, 2,000,000, 5,000,000; and two spaces labeled double spin)
• 1 deck of action cards containing modifiers that help mitigate or aggravate the population body counts from the disasters inflicted by fate. These cards are used based on the color or type of disaster or by continent. (Cards such as Improper Vaccine--Double the losses of population on the continent of your choice; Good Building Standards--Your population loss is cut in half because of good building codes (use for a natural disaster calamity(blue or gray); Meteor Hits City--Lose double the population (use on an orange disaster); Disaster Strikes Twice--Instead of one continent, two continents other than yours are struck by disaster, spin location spinner again)) Action cards can also deflect fate by sending the disaster to a different continent.
• 120 counters or cubes in four sets each one colored red, green, blue, yellow. One color for each player. Each cube represents 500,000 people.
• 1 game board of the world with the six continents outlined each one shaded in a different color.
• 1 Fate counter--This represents who is portraying the Fates each turn.
• 1 Peace Counter and Peace board--This board has three spaces on it. The counter starts at zero and then moves as the spinner hits a peaceful period.

SETUP

1. Place the spinners by the board.
2. Place 20 cubes of each color on each continent to start. These represent each demi-gods followers on that continent.
3. Shuffle the pack of action cards and deal five cards to each player and place the pack face down.
4. First player takes the Fate Counter

PLAY

The play is as follows:

1. Movement Phase: Players simultaneously are allowed to move up to four cubes from one continent to another continent on three different continents.
2. Disaster Phase: Fate player spins the disaster spinner. Then they spin the continent spinner and the population spinner to determine a disaster, a population count and a location.
3. Action Phase: Players may play one or more action cards to protect their followers or enhance the attack on other followers to reduce thei r population loss and enhance the others.
4. Damage Phase: Damage is calculated. Population cubes are removed from the continent(s) afflicted.
5. Draw Phase: Draw back to five cards.
6. Fate Phase: Fate marker moves to next player.

Game ends when there are either no more cubes on a continent after phase Four of a turn OR if Peace strikes the planet three times.

Example: Dave and Tom move their 3 cubes from North America to S. America; Dave also moves three cubes from Europe to Asia. Dave spins a tornado, North America and 2,000,000 people. Dave plays a Storm Cellar card which halves natural disaster (Gray) damage. Tom plays a Multi-Continent disaster and spins the location spinner again to get Europe. Damage is calculated. Each player removes four cubes from North America. Dave's modifier lets him remove only two for EACH continent involved so he takes two from North America and two from Europe. Tom removes four from Europe and four from North America. They each draw a card and the Fate marker passes to Tom.