The board game design gallery

Hi and welcome to the board game design gallery.

This was one of several designs l developed with Blue Opal over several years hoping that a variation of the initial idea would make it (l usually called it Insanity or Dexterity, although in this case it was called Contortions).

l will be adding the other variations to this concept next time l add designs to this page.

The object was that 2 to 6 players take it in turns to complete 3 challenges simultaneously.Then the other players try and figure out what you are, and give a score for how well you did the actions. You move around the board, based on the score and collect tokens, (men) once you have collected 10 tokens you win!

So if you pick up a l am card which may have Cat on it, and two action cards (hand picture cards) which may say "draw me" and write the word "pencil".

The middle card with the brain picture on it could say "say the word dog"?

The middle of the game board has a shiny surface so you could write, draw, etc the required actions at the same time (you would have to for example draw a Cat with one hand and spell pencil with your other hand), while trying to verbally say the word dog!

(Design 1)

In the second variation we tried several different variations of game card ideas!

So, in the Charades section l had a l-am and l-do cards, another section l-am plus l-am (l am a Cat and Giraffe) cards, which you have to draw; then Draw-say-Draw cards (similar to the first design concept above) and sound cards, sounds l-feel (tired), sounds l-am (Cat) and sounds for l-do cards (driving).

As you can see over several years we just played around with the concept hoping to create it in a way that some Toy Company around the world or hopefully Companies would take it more seriously!

(Design 2)

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