Build-at-Home Missions

Tilt's Fair Board Game

Design a tiny paper board game, then playtest and change one rule until it feels fair.

Print this sheet

Builder handle: ____________________   Date: ____________

Materials

• ☐ Paper and markers
• ☐ A coin or a die
• ☐ Two small tokens
• ☐ A friend or family member to playtest

Steps

1. Draw a track. Draw 20 squares from Start to Finish. Mark 3 squares 'go back 2' and 3 squares 'go forward 2'. ☐
2. Pick a move rule. Flip a coin: heads move 2, tails move 1. Or roll a die. ☐
3. Playtest 5 games. Write down who won and how long each game took. ☐
4. Tune one rule. If one player always wins or games drag on, change one rule and playtest again. ☐

Finish line

A game that you have playtested at least 5 times and changed at least once.

Finish line: You can say which rule you changed and why.

What I built: ____________________________________________

One thing I fixed: _______________________________________

Check

1. The first player wins 5 out of 5 games. What does that suggest?
   • ☐ The game might favor going first
   • ☐ The game is perfect
   • ☐ The coin is broken
   • ☐ Nothing
2. Why change only one rule at a time?
   • ☐ So you know which change made the difference
   • ☐ Rules are expensive
   • ☐ It's faster to change all of them
   • ☐ No reason

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