All in One …a new game for two to four players developed by my eight year old daughter. It has math and chance and lots of action. Rounds take from five to ten minutes and the whole game can last from thirty minutes to hours.
You need:
- One deck of cards less the aces and kings.
- Dice.
- Gamepieces for each player.
- Sixty-four square gameboard. A checkers, chess, or Othello board will work.
- Sand timer. Perhaps from a Boggle set.
- An equal amount of pennies for each player.
Play
- Place the board between players.
- Designate one corner of the gameboard as the start square.
- Set gamepiece for each player on the board at the start square.
- Shuffle cards and deal five to each player.
- Place remaining cards beside board as a draw pile.
- Set sand timer.
- The dealer rolls the dice and adds them together.
- Any player with a card equal to the dice total discards that card and moves their gamepiece that number of spaces row by row towards the opposite corner of the gameboard.
- Players replace any discards from the draw pile.
- Roll the dice again and repeat.
- The dealer passes the dice to the next player when the timer expires.
- The first player to reach the far corner of the gameboard receives a penny from each of the other players. This ends the round.
- The deal passes to the left and play continues until one player has all the pennies.