Boardgames

Greg Koeser has been designing games for 15 years. Keep up with his latest designs on gregkoeser.wordpress.com.

For examples of custom card decks and games, see cards.sasgames.net

Nursery Rhyme Games:

• Itsy-Bitsy Spider – a press-your-luck game to get to the top of the water spout
• The Queen of Hearts – a micro-game of role selection
• The Muffin Man – a deduction game to find the Muffin Man
• Pat-a-Cake – a speed cake building game
• This Old Man – a trick-taking card game where you can skip tricks and keep your cards for future rounds.
• Old King Cole – a musical game
• Jack and Jill – a game to get the pail of water from the top of the hill
• Baa Baa Black Sheep – a bluffing game to determine how much wool they actually have
• The Grand Old Duke of York – a cooperative, card-based, tower defense game involving going up and down a hill
• London Bridge is Falling Down – a card dropping game of bridge destruction
• Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star – a micro bluffing game to determine who is the “Little Star”
• There Was a Crooked Man – a coin stacking game
• Jack Sprat – a partnership trick-taking game, where one partner can’t take tricks that are fat (have King or Queen) and other partner can’t take tricks that are lean (have an Ace or deuce).
• Hickory Dickory Dock – A solitaire card game in the shape of a clock with 4 rounds of small decisions while going up and down the clock

Prototype games:

Bid War – a deck trimming bidding war game. All players start with the same deck of cards, but can you optimize your deck to win the bids.

Walk the Dog – A tile-based neighborhood game where you mark your territory as a dog marks territory, and strategically place your doggy-doo to block other’s path

Why Cry – a baby deduction training game to help identify the potential causes for a crying baby

Cyborg Poker – a game where you can invest your winnings to upgrade your poker hand abilities (see/hold additional cards, steal opponent cards, or generate chips by not being bankrupted)