After discussion with the young board games experts in his family and a couple of chats with the rest of Team Sausage Fingers, Kev drew up a board to test out the game.
What you really want to know is – how does the game work?
The idea is to survive the Lock-Down…or to the be last person to die from Covid-19.
Each player starts with 20 health points, representing both physical health and mental health. If you lose them, you die. If you make it round the board a certain number of times you have survived the Lock-Down.
You roll a 6-sided die (D6) and move round the board.
If you land on a red square you pick up a Luck Card.
If you land on a blue-ish purple square (we’re still arguing about what colour it actually is and Kev hasn’t seen fit to provide the Pantone reference yet), you pick a Scenario Card.
If you land on a green square, that’s a safe zone and for once nothing nasty happens. Enjoy it while you can.
The bottom left square is home, where you start. The top right square is the hospital, where you go if you get a nasty case of Covid-19. If you land on one of the other two corners you pick up a Hospital Card.
Somewhere in the middle of the board is the Quarantine zone, where you go if you have potentially been exposed to Covid-19 and need to self-isolate.
So far, so simple. Where it starts to get fun is what the Luck and Scenario cards do to you and what you can do to other players with them…
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