Friday, October 10, 2014

Lemmings Trivia

My roommate had a new board game he was showing me, based on the original Lemmings game. He'd laid out the board, which looked like a Lemmings level, divided into squares, and there were tiles to put on it to change things. I have no clue how the rules worked in terms of assigning tasks to the lemmings.

The part he was explaining to me involved a stack of trivia cards. Each card had some sort of trivia question and an answer. The answers all sounded correct, but if you looked them up online, most of them were not right. Point value for each card was determined by how accurate the answers were, and there was some sort of trading mechanic, where you tried to get bad cards into your neighbor's pile and good ones into yours. There were different rules for how to assign point values, depending on whether you had internet access while playing the game. I don't know how all this related to the game board with the lemmings.