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Looking For a Simple, Short, Portable 2 Player game (discuss.online)
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Im familiar enough with board games to know that I’m asking a lot here. My goal is to have a game that I can carry around with me, walk up to people I meet in public, and ask them to play.

The most obvious path here I thought of would be some type of game played with a standard deck of cards. While I’m not opposed to this, I fear the randomness that comes with that might not be what I’m looking for. I want the game to be strategic with minimal luck but simple enough that a first time player could reasonably win against someone experienced.

Something like Hive comes to mind, as it has the pocket variation and seems like it could be easy enough to teach, but I have yet to play it so I fear it might be daunting to newcomers in ways similar to chess.

Thank you in advance for any and all answers, and if you would like further clarification I’d be happy to elaborate!

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[–] homoludens@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago

The only thing in Arboretun's scoring that might be difficult at first is that you need to have the most points for a tree type in hand in order to score that tree type at all. And at the same time you need to have played some cards of this tree type, so you actually have something to score ;)

The details of scoring can be (and probably should be) shown in a player aid:

  • "8" in hand counts as 0 if the other player has the "1"
  • 1 point for each card in a path (2 if it's all the same color and at least 4 cards long)
  • +1 point if the path starts with the "1"
  • +1 point if the path ends with the "8"