TANGRAM Puzzle and RACE TO THE END BOARD GAME

As an exercise to demonstrate understanding of what genre was, we were tasked with first playing an age old puzzle game: Tangram. Provided with a A3 piece of paper and a set of rules, we cut out the needed shapes before beginning to frustratingly trying to create the possible shapes.

The next task involved getting into a group and creating a simple game using simple board game mechanics, such as a picking up cards, using counters, dice etc. My team decided to set our board game around rescuing a dog from a fire. We placed certain squares around on the curved path to the centre which we then explained their effects on the rule sheet. This made sure that the groups trying it out would understand and play with ease.

To set the dog free, the players must have had collected enough enough water cards by landing on the water squares (blue droplets), landing on fire pushes the player two squares back and smoke causes them to miss a turn.