INTRODUCTION Board & card game for 1-5+ players. Pedestrian Glass Bead Game Variant. VICTORY Each Player scores Points at the end of each of his turns. The game ends when the Board is completely filled up. The player with the most accumulated points at the end of the game wins. THE BOARD Use a 10 X 10 Grid. Each space must be large enough to contain a single card. THE DECK Players share a common deck. The deck can be as large as you want, but must contain a minimum of 100 cards. THE CARDS Each card has a Title and one or more Descriptors. The owner and creator of the deck gets to determine what descriptors go to what Titles. Basic Descriptors: Person, Place, Thing, Idea, Symbol, Animal, Plant, etc. Field (& Sub-Field) Descriptors: Philosophy, Religion, Physics, Art, Mathematics, Medicine, Politics, Mythology, Psychology, Literature, Chemistry, Biology, Poetry, Music, Exploration, Warfare, Sculpture, Agriculture, Economics, Cinema, Television, etc. Cultural Descriptors: Greek, Egyptian, American, English, French, Japanese, etc. SETUP Shuffle the deck well. Determine turn order. Each player is dealt 5 cards. TURN SEQUENCE Players take turns. Each turn has 5 Phases: Draw Phase Card Phase Place Phase Score Phase End Phase DRAW PHASE Draw 2 cards from the deck. If the deck runs out, shuffle the discard and draw from it. CARD PHASE Every card has a Special Ability (SA). You may discard one card to activate its SA. SPECIAL ABILITY LIST A = Draw 2 cards B = All players discard their hands C = Look at next 5 cards in Deck D = Opponent must discard 2 random cards his hand E = Steal one random card from opponents hand F = Discard one target card from the board G = Take target card from the Discard and put it in your hand H = You may place an extra card this turn I = Score double points this turn J = Target opponent Scores half points on his next turn K = Negate an SA just played by your opponent (Play in Opponents Card Phase) L = Look at Opponents Hand M = Move one card on the board to any empty space (No points are scored for this) N = You may play two more SA this phase PLACE PHASE Place one card from your hand face-up onto one empty space on the board. SCORE PHASE Score one point for every descriptor the card you just placed has in common With any other Card it is adjacent to (touching orthogonally and diagonally) Use pen & paper to keep track of points scored. If there is a line of cards (3 or more) sharing the same descriptor, and the Card you just placed increases the length of that line, you earn an extra point. AD HOC DESCRIPTOR RULE A player may proclaim on his turn that the card he just placed, and an adjacent Card have some additional unwritten descriptor in common. The other players vote on this and may agree to award him an extra point. For Example: you may say “Both these cards are from the 19th century” Your Opponents may decide to award you a point for this observation. END PHASE Max hand size is 7 cards. Discard excess cards. CARD LIST Title: SA Descriptors: Napoleon A Person, French, General, Head of State Sigmund Freud B Person, Austrian, Psychology Albert Einstein C Person, Physics, 20th Century George Washington D Person, American, General, Head of State American Revolution E Event, Politics, Revolution, American, Democracy French Revolution F Event, Politics, Revolution, French Communist Revolution G Event, Politics, Revolution, Russian, Communism Alexander the Great H Person, Greek, General, Head of State Industrial Revolution I Event, Politics, Revolution, Industry Plato J Person, Philosophy, Greek Archimedes K Person, Mathematics, Greek Parthenon L Location, Architecture, Greek, Religion Zeus M Mythology, Greek, God Mount Olympus N Location, Mythology, Greek, Mountain Mount Everest A Location, Nature, Mountain Vishnu B Mythology, Hindu, God Sahara Desert C Location, Nature, Desert, African Gobi Desert D Location, Nature, Desert, Chinese Great Wall of China E Location, Architecture, Chinese The Big Bang F Event, Physics, Astro-Physics Jesus Christ G Person, Religion, Christianity, God, Prophet The Bible H Object, Book, Religion, Christianity The Koran I Object, Book, Religion, Islam Mohammed J Person, Religion, Islam, Prophet Moses K Person, Religion, Judaism, Prophet Ten Commandments L Object, Religion, Law Crucifixion M Event, Religion, Christianity The Garden of Eden N Location, Religion Creation A Event, Religion Mozart B Person, Music, Austrian, Classical Music Beethoven C Person, Music, German, Classical Music Franz Schubert D Person, Music, Austrian, Classical Music World War I E Event, War, 20th Century World War II F Event, War, 20th Century Picasso G Person, Art, Painter, French War & Peace H Novel, Literature, Book, Russian Lenin I Person, Russian, Communism, Revolution Stalin J Person, Russian, Head of State, Communism Computers K Object, Technology, Mathematics Space Shuttle L Object, Space Exploration, Vehicles, American Tour de France M Event, Sports, Bicycles, Vehicles, French Indy 500 N Event, Sports, Cars, Vehicles, American Olympic Games A Event, Sports, Greek Pyramids at Giza B Location, Architecture, Egyptian, Religion Leonardo da Vinci C Person, Art, Technology, Painting, Renaissance Mona Lisa D Object, Art, Painting, Renaissance Tanks E Vehicle, Technology, War Wright Brothers F Person, Technology, Aviation, Vehicle Walt Disney G Person, Technology, Cinema, Television Gone With the Wind H Fiction, Book, Cinema, American 50 Abraham Lincoln I Person, American, Head of State American Civil War J Event, War, American Hitler K Person, Head of State, German The Holocaust L Event, War, 20th Century Birth Control Pill M Object, Technology, 20th Century, Revolution Penicillin N Medicine, 20th Century Superman A Person, Science Fiction, Comics, American Nietzsche B Philosophy, German Kant C Philosophy, German Virtual Reality D Technology Star Trek E Science Fiction, Television, Space Exploration Green Revolution F Event, Technology, Agriculture Alexander Bell G Person, Technology, American King Tut H Person, Egyptian, Head of State, Ancient Roman Empire I Location, Nation, Ancient, Roman Holy Roman Empire J Location, Nation, Medieval Lucy K Person, African, Paleontology Tyrannosaurus Rex L Animal, Dinosaur, Paleontology Stonehenge M Location, Architecture, Celtic, Astronomy Stoicism N Philosophy, Roman, Ancient Julius Caesar A Person, Roman, General, Head of State Kama Sutra B Literature, Book, Hindu Beowulf C Literature, Book, English Silk Road D Location, Economics, Chinese Johann Gutenberg E Person, Technology, Books Michelangelo F Person, Art, Painting, Renaissance, Italian Columbus G Person, Exploration, Nautical, Portuguese Copernicus H Person, Astronomy, Mathematics Newton I Person, Astronomy, Mathematics, English Feudalism J Idea, Government, Medieval, Politics Democracy K Idea, Government, Politics Communism L Idea, Government, Politics, Economics Civil Disobedience M Idea, Politics, Revolution Imperialism N Idea, Government, Politics The Cold War A Event, War, 20th Century Rationalism B Idea, Philosophy Existentialism C Idea, Philosophy Thomas Aquinas D Person, Philosophy, Religion New Age E Idea, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion Carl Jung F Person, Psychology Global Village G Location, Technology, Communication Mass Media H Technology, Communication Capitalism I Idea, Economics Mass Production J Technology, Economics Romanticism K Idea, Art, Philosophy Impressionism L Idea, Art, Philosophy Jazz M Music, American Surrealism N Idea, Art, Philosophy Elvis A Person, Music, Rock and Roll Black Holes B Object, Astro-Physics
BASIC VARIATIONS The above sample deck contains 100 cards. Players are encouraged to create additional cards, new Special Abilities, and to alter Descriptors as they see fit. When playing with young people, be sure to educate them on the Topics of the cards and how they are related. 3-D VARIANT With 125 cards you could do a three dimenional board that is 5 x 5 x 5.
