This was a really fun experience. I made a board game where all the players are newly single and accumulate Love Readiness Points as they circle the board with the other players and their soul mate. Certain squares on the board allow you to pick up a card, which you pick up depending on your point level. You start with 0 points and win when you get to 10 points, travel with your soul mate, and land on the Happily Ever After square. The levels that relate to the type of card you pick up were “Go it solo”, “Playing the field”, “Open to a relationship”, “Now’s the time”, and “Playing for serious”.
To play, Rick & I used a large nail polish bottle for each of us (blue him, red me) and a small nail polish bottle for our soul mate of the same color family.
Each card gives you a scenario and either gives you or takes away points. Also, as you play, there are rules about landing on the same square as another player, as your soul mate, or as another player’s soul mate. Each turn you role 2 dice: 1 die is for you, and the other die you choose between moving your sole mate or another player’s soul mate.
It was a close game, but Rick and his matching nail polish mate reached Happily Ever After before I did.
We agreed that the game was surprisingly fun, but it needs another layer of complexity to add onto it. Maybe as you’re traveling and trying to accumulate True Love Readiness Points, your mate is trying to acquire a job, a home, money, and style. Maybe I’ll work on that another day to extend the game.
-Julie
But, really, my and cutest first player was Olivia:
