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GRIDLOCK©
Idea for a new board game.If you are interested in developing this game, please E-Mail me.
CONTENTS
1 Set of Instructions, 1 Game Board, 1 Bag, 8 Red Subject Discs, 8 Green Subject Discs
8 Sets of Subject Questions ( to be arranged), 1 Set of Blitz Questions (to be arranged)
Key to subjects:
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H - History
SP - Sport
G - Geography
A - Arts |
SC - Science and Nature
E - Entertainment
Q - Quotations
? - Riddles, Puzzles and Problems
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| THE BOARD |
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OBJECT OF THE GAME |
The Object of the game is for a player or a team of players to get all of their ‘subject discs’ to the corresponding ‘safe zone’, ie Green - left to right, Red - top to bottom. To do this, a player must answer questions on the relevant disc to a varying degree of difficulty, depending on how many ‘moves’ are required. For example, an Easy ‘Science’ question, correctly answered, moves the ‘Science’ disc one space, an Intermediate question correctly answered two spaces, and a difficult question correctly answered moves the disc three spaces. |
Easy - 1 Move | Intermediate - 2 Moves | Hard - 3 Moves |
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Before the game begins, the discs are placed in a bag. One by one they are drawn out, and placed on the positions 1 to 8, thereby ensuring that pieces are ranked along the starting line in a random order. A coin is then flipped to see who starts. |
EXAMPLE GEOGRAPHY CARD |
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"BLOCKING" |
No piece can ‘hop’ over a square occupied by an opponents disc. Therefore, a player’s disc, if left unmoved, can block an opponent’s disc and vice versa. |
"BLITZING" |
A player can clear the way of an opponent’s disc by successfully answering 3 questions on a ‘Blitz’ card. These are the hardest questions taken at random from any of the 8 categories. All three questions must be answered correctly. If successful, the ‘Blitzing’ piece moves onto the square occupied by the opponent’s piece, which returns to the start zone. If not answered correctly, the ‘Blitzing’ piece itself returns to the start zone. |
EXAMPLE BLITZING CARD |
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The questions are made deliberately hard so as to ensure that a player with lesser ability at ‘trivia’ can successfully block a more academically gifted opponent, who takes a risk every time he attempts a ‘blitz’. © 1998 Stephen Hale |
