Every player also starts play with a hand of four cards from the Deck of Complications, and draws another card from that deck at the start of every turn. This is where things start to get ‘complicated’. What do you do with that other point, or both if them if you can’t play a piece? Hat! Players get two Turn Points to spend every turn, and placing a piece on the table costs one such point, although you can only place one piece per turn. Each player starts with five such pieces in their ‘Holdings’, and the first one to empty their Holdings wins the game.Ī single starting piece is on the table to begin the game, and new pieces need to be place either vertically or horizontally next to the piece they’re played on in a specific order: Hats are worn by Soldiers, Soldiers ride Sheep, Sheep are abducted by Spaceships, Spaceships blow up Castles, and Castles, uh. Players are attempting to set up a complicated board game by getting all of the ‘pieces’ onto the table, in this case with the pieces being represented by cards. And what if it was actually a really simple card game that’s easy to learn and full of tongue-in-cheek humor about all the board games we love to play and hate to set up? That’s how we wind up with Complicated Board Game the Card Game: Time 2 Play!īrought to us by offcut games (Patrick Brennan, Alisha Wilkerson, and Ari David), Complicated Board Game the Card Game: Time 2 Play is for 3-6 players with a projected play time of 15 minutes. It’s almost as if the set up portion is its own game. The rules are byzantine, the pieces are better counted by the score than by the dozen, arranging everything on the table is akin to cartography, and shuffling the cards can count as a cardio workout. Let’s be honest, there are a lot of board games out there that might as well double their ‘estimated time of play’ because of how long they take to actually start playing.
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