The IKEA Game

A home renovation game with Tetris-style pieces.

TWO PAPER GAME:

  • You get one “grid” paper that is the board/blueprint (like my Folding Forest). It shows the area in which to build, special spaces, boundaries, etc.
  • And one “Tetris pieces” paper that you need to cut out. During the game, everyone simple places those Tetris pieces onto the grid in the best way/the only valid way/the way that scores most points.

ONE PAPER GAME

The grid + Tetris pieces is one paper. That paper simply is only half-filled with meaningful shapes and half-filled with spaces between them. The objective is the same, but now you also place the grid/empty spaces.

WITHOUT A PRE-CUT

If we want, we can make the paper design very flexible. There are no predefined shapes for furniture or whatever—instead, while playing, players cut out the piece they want at the time. This would make it my second “cutting game”, as well as remove the preparation with neatly cutting the paper.

THE BEST SOLUTION IS JUST TO MAKE IT A TWO-STEP GAME!

  • Your very first game, the gameplay revolves around cutting the paper. (So it’s that third idea.)
  • Every game after that, you’re now playing with the pieces you created in that first game. (So it’s that second idea.)