Milles Bournes

[dsrtao]

Eliz taught me how to play Milles Bornes a few nights ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mille_Bornes (of course.)

There is a flaw in the game that prevents it from being easier to learn: the cards have plenty of space to describe what it is that they do, but they don't.

Remedying that flaw would also make it possible to produce a more complex, yet playable, variant in which more card types could be introduced, a la Magic.

Also, the "Right of Way" card is either too powerful or too rare; I haven't made up my mind. Possibly both.

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[metageek.livejournal.com]

a more complex, yet playable, variant in which more card types could be introduced, a la Magic.

Ooh—Mille Bornes meets Car Wars!

Also, the "Right of Way" card is either too powerful or too rare; I haven't made up my mind. Possibly both.

Could be both, yeah. If it comes up, it makes a huge difference; so its rarity means there's a large amount of luck that can come out and change the course of the game.

Now I want to teach my kids MB.

[dsrtao]

I think a limited addition of Car Wars features to Mille Bornes would be fun, yes. Say, add a caltrop dispenser card (produces a flat tire, but only if you are 50, 25 or 0Km ahead of your target), a machine gun (produces an accident, but only if you are 0Km from your target) and a rocket (causes an accident for a target 0, 25 or 50Km ahead of you). And then a Bulletproof Armor, Run-Flat Tires, and Flare to ward each of these off.

[metageek.livejournal.com]

I'd think the caltrops would be a persistent effect; you get hit when you reach the mileage I was at when I dropped them—unless you counter them first, with a Street Sweeper card. So it's like a Flat Tire, but with an actual explanation.

[dsrtao]

I was trying to avoid the need for a map to depict where everyone is and what they have done -- otherwise it gets away from the card game aspect and becomes more of a board game.

It could be a fun board game, but there's already CarWars...
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2795

[metageek.livejournal.com]

There is that.

Heh. Or you could cross MB with Pokémon, and have a car race where the cars keep getting stomped by monsters. :-)

[its-just-me.livejournal.com]

I used to love that game. Coopy Dooy We'd say.