Battle Bugs is a little game done in Scratch. You plan your bugs’ path and your (virtual) opponent does the same, and then you move simultaneously, trying to ram each other. If you win, you get more points to upgrade your bug for the next battle!
A board game for 2 to 4 players.
The goal of this game is to gain friends and effort points. Players take turns rolling a 4-sided dice and moving around the board. The exception is a roll of four, which gives you an extra effort point. If you land on a green “Hyla” square, you get 2 effort points plus 2 per friend. If you land on an event, move to the last space in that event. Add up the number of points on each friend card and remove that many effort points. If you don’t have enough points, discard any one friend. If you end up with extra effort points, you can make new friends. Discard one point to draw a friend. You can get a maximum of 3 friends per event.
You can also use effort points to make close friends during an event. Add any amount of effort points to an existing friend to increase the points listed on that friend. This means you discard more effort points per event, but the friend becomes worth more points in the end. Close friends may not be discarded, but if you have no choice, remove one effort point from one of your close friends instead. You can’t make close friends of friends you just got, and you can make up to 3 close friends per event. Effort points can also be saved up for later events.
It does not matter who makes it to the end first. All the other players continue playing until they reach the end. Once everyone has finished, add up all friend and close friend points. The highest scorer wins.
Mango is one of those games that needs more than luck. It requires you to stare into your opponent’s eyes and figure out what card to play. You’ll need two or more players to play.
Let’s make you the dealer. Deal every player 7 face-down cards, including you. Everyone can look at their cards to see what they have. Split the rest of the cards into two equal piles (though if they’re not equal, it doesn’t really matter), and put them on to the middle of the table, face-down, about 1 1/2 cards length apart. Take the top card of one of the piles and put it in between the two piles. This is the start of the Mango, the middle pile where most of the play happens. The player to the dealer’s left goes first, then play goes around to you.
Let’s say it’s your turn now. You have a couple of choices. Pick a card from your hand and put it down on the Mango, take the top card from one of the side piles and put it on the Mango, or take the top card from your stockpile and put it on the Mango. The last one doesn’t apply to your first turn (or in some cases, your first few turns), when you don’t have a stockpile yet. If this card is higher than the one before it, you take the whole Mango, and put it face-down on top of your stockpile. If you don’t have one yet, this will be the start of your stockpile.
If you put down a card lower than the one before it, it just stays there.
If the card is the same, the first two to slap the side piles (one per pile, of course) get to battle for it.
They both take off the top card of the pile they slapped, and turn them over. Whichever is higher takes the Mango and both of the new, turned-over cards. If these cards are both the same, do it again until someone wins. In this game, Aces beat Kings, but 2’s can beat aces. If you take the Mango, you need to put a new card down to start a new one. This card can’t be from your stockpile, though. If this was your last card you just put down to start a new Mango, the next person can have a turn to try to take the card.
Whoever gets rid of all their cards first gets 10 extra points, and the play stops. Everyone scores the cards in their stockpiles (and include the extra 10 points for the “first one out”), and the one with the most points wins. That means that you can win even if you aren’t first one out.
Scoring is very simple. Aces are 14, Kings are 13, Queens are 12, Jacks are 11, and everything else is face value. If you want to play with Jokers, they don’t count as anything, but can beat anything lower than an Ace. After you’ve played a few times, you’ll get the hang of it all, and even develop some strategy!
A card game for 2 or more players.
Shuffle a complete deck of cards. Put it in the middle of the table. Play goes around to the dealer’s left. There’s an odd way to draw cards in this game. On everyone’s first turn you draw a card. Then you draw another card. If this one is a different color than the last one, you stop. Otherwise, you keep drawing until this happens. After your first turn, you also have the option of discarding a card instead. If you have more than 7 cards, you can discard as many as you want, as long as you have at least 7 cards in your hand after discarding. You can also take the top card card of the face-up discard pile instead of drawing or discarding. Your aim is to match your cards into 4 of a kind (worth 10 points) or 4 or more in sequence (worth 5 points for 4 cards, plus 2 for each extra card – ace is high and low). At the end of your turn, you can go out. Everyone must show their hands. Anything that doesn’t match up subtracts one point from your final score. The highest score wins.
