“No More-No Less” (Non-dice rolling racing board game)

By well-wisher

Sun, 25 May 2014
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  1. “No More- No Less” is a board game for 2 to 4 players.
  2. It is played, like Snakes and Ladders, on a board with a hundred squares (10 squares by 10 squares) that are all either black or white apart from the four finishing squares and the four home squares which are yellow.
  3. At the centre of the board are the four finishing squares. In each of the four corners of the board is a home square.Players start in any of the four home squares.
  4. Each Player has four pieces; either 4 Blue pieces; 4 Green pieces; 4 Red pieces or 4 Orange pieces.
  5. And, as in most board games, players must take turns moving.
  6. HOWEVER there is no dice involved in the game. Instead players must move their pieces NO MORE AND NO LESS than 3 SQUARES IN ANY DIRECTION (vertical, horizontal or diagonal) at a time and THEY CAN ONLY MOVE IN A STRAIGHT LINE.
  7. Upon the board there are several squares that are called ‘Prize Squares’ each time a player moves onto one of these squares then they can collect a prize.
  8. There are 4 types of prizes, atriangular prize ; a cross shaped prize; a circular prize and a diamond shaped prize. Players must collect one prize of each shape by moving onto the prize square with the correct (a triangle, a cross, a circle or a diamond) symbol on it.
  9. The aim of the game is to reach a finishing square, with one of your pieces, after having collected all 4 different shaped prizes. The first to do this is the winner.
  10. This may sound easy but actually, if a player is forced to move NO MORE AND NO LESS than three squares at a time IN A STRAIGHT LINE then it makes it difficult getting onto the square they want and usually requires two or more separate moves in different directions.
  11. “Can’t move here” squares – Also, on the board are some “Can’t move here” squares. These are squares that pieces cannot be moved onto.
  12. Prize capturing/ Send Home rule – If a player moves one of their pieces onto a square that is occupied by another player’s piece then they can steal one of the prizes won by that player OR if that player has no prizes to steal yet then they have to move one of their pieces back to the home square it started on.
  13. HOW I CAME UP WITH THE IDEA FOR THIS GAME: I tried moving three squares at a time, in a straight line and in any direction, on a normal snakes and ladders board and discovered that reaching the square I wanted to reach was tricky and required moving to the right square three squares away from the square I wanted to reach.
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