Get That Diamond
Materials:
- Deck of cards
- Four player pieces
- One d6
- Four live human beings
Setup:
- Discard four diamond suit cards, making sure to keep the ace.
- Shuffle remaining cards.
- Lay cards face-down in 8x6 grid.
- Pick a side to be north.
- Imagine that this is an island above a pit of lava.
Instructions:
- The goal is to land upon the ace of diamonds and live.
- Players start wherever they want.
- Players have four hit points.
- Players can move to any (any!) face-down cards as long as there is a non-diagonal path from their piece, but cannot retrace their steps.
- Face up cards have filled with lava, which is unhealthy (terminally).
- In a turn, players can flip over as many of the cards between their start and end points as they want, but they must suffer the aggregate of their effects.
- The cards have the following effects:
- Heart, sharp rocks: Lose one hit point.
- Club, rock slide: Lose one turn.
- Spade, slippery rocks: Roll the d6 to determine random movement
- 1: One space north
- 2: One space east
- 3: One space south
- 4: One space west
- 5: No movement
- 6: Reroll
- Ace of diamonds, wondrous diamond: Gain one win (if other effects don't kill you first).
- Other diamonds, coal: No effect.
- If the player who flips over the diamond dies, it falls into the lava and no one wins.