Rickety Race

A push-your-luck engine builder. As far as I can tell, this has not been done before and is really interesting

I’ts like you’re building an engine/cart, but it’s out of rickety and bad parts, and it can fall apart if you push it too hard. Hence the name.

ENGINE BUILDER (simplified)

You add cards from your hand to piles in front of you, sorted by color. (A yellow card must go on the other yellow cards you already have in front of you, for example.)
When you do, execute all effects from all those cards. (Their effect is an icon at the top, so you can easily see the whole row.)
Which is a nice card-based simplified version of Wingspan and Deck Building and such.

PUSH YOUR LUCK

At the bottom of each card is a different card type. If you add the card to your engine, you must draw that card type from the deck (or hidden market) and add it too.
As such, you can accidentally make piles too large or add terrible effects because of this forced hidden card.

Maybe this is themed as a RACE with an actual engine (“zeepkist”) you build, and you can literally push your engine more (to go faster) … but this also increases the chance of exploding/going off-track.

Inspired by KNARR

The genius of KNARR can be reused, though maybe not all elements (for simplicity):

Though the GENIUS of Knarr is that you need to use (permanently discard those cards you made into an engine) to get other stuff you like. So you can never really get overpowered or just get “loads of stuff”, because you need to spend your favorite cards at some point too. How do we copy that in a simplified way in our own game?
KNARR is even more brilliant by that playing a card gives you a specific card (the one at the bottom) for free, if you want it. (Making cards multi-use, creating interesting decisions automatically) But if you spend some valuable token, you get any other card from the display.
And KNARR is even more brilliant by limiting your tokens (of each type) to 3, forcing you to constantly spend them if you don’t want to miss out on later rewards gaining them again.

A **push-your-luck engine builder**. As far as I can tell, this has **not been done before and is really interesting** I'ts like you're building an engine/cart, but it's out of rickety and bad parts, and it can fall apart if you push it too hard. Hence the name. ## ENGINE BUILDER (simplified) * You add cards from your hand to piles in front of you, sorted by color. (A yellow card must go on the other yellow cards you already have in front of you, for example.) * When you do, execute _all effects_ from all those cards. (Their effect is an icon at the top, so you can easily see the whole row.) * Which is a nice card-based simplified version of _Wingspan_ and Deck Building and such. ## PUSH YOUR LUCK * At the bottom of each card is a different card type. If you add the card to your engine, you _must_ draw that card type from the deck (or hidden market) and _add it too_. * As such, you can accidentally make piles too large or add terrible effects because of this forced hidden card. Maybe this is themed as a RACE with an actual engine ("zeepkist") you build, and you can literally _push your engine more_ (to go faster) ... but this also _increases the chance of exploding/going off-track_. ## Inspired by KNARR The genius of KNARR can be reused, though maybe not all elements (for simplicity): * Though the GENIUS of Knarr is that you need to _use_ (permanently discard those cards you made into an engine) to get other stuff you like. So you can never really get overpowered or just get "loads of stuff", because you need to spend your favorite cards at some point too. _How do we copy that in a simplified way in our own game?_ * KNARR is even more brilliant by that playing a card gives you a _specific_ card (the one at the bottom) for free, if you want it. (Making cards multi-use, creating interesting decisions automatically) But if you spend some valuable token, you get any other card from the display. * And KNARR is even _more_ brilliant by limiting your tokens (of each type) to 3, forcing you to constantly spend them if you don't want to miss out on later rewards gaining them again.