Gone to Texas: Farm Expansion!

Exactly one month ago today, we posted the "Gone to Texas" board game created by staff member Allison. Today, we've got an expansion pack for you!

Gone to Texas: Survival Game – Farm Expansion 

Materials needed for the expansion:

• Settler’s Surprise cards (New! Click here to download.)
• Player sheet (New! Click here to download.)
• Farm building bank page (New! Click here to download, then cut out each building to be used during play.)​

Materials needed from the original game:

• First set of Settler Surprise cards, the movement dice and game board. Click here to download if you don't already have these!

Not provided:

• Two additional regular dice
• Game tokens
• Scissors and glue (to cut out and attach the buildings)​

Directions:
1. Cut apart all of the new Settler’s Surprise Cards, mix them with the original cards, and place all of them on top of the game board.
2. Cut apart all of the buildings on the Building bank page and stack them up nearby for easy access.
3. Give each player a player page.
4. Follow the rules listed on the game board to play:

• Start all game tokens on the “Fall square”
• Roll the “movement” dice to see how far to move each turn.
  • The exception is that everyone MUST land on the “Harvest” square and the “End of Year” squares. Those have benefits that everyone needs to have available.
• If you land on a season square, or when you land on the “End of Year” square, you have the option of purchasing a building for your farm at that time (instead of taking a “Settler’s Surprise” card).
  • Document the resources used to purchase a building into the “used” column for the year on the player sheet.
  • The next time that you pass the “End of Year” square, the benefits of the building will kick in.
    • If you do not have the resources to pay into the building (the chicken coop and the smoke house), you do not get the rewards. (But you also don’t lose the resources that you don’t have, and you don’t lose the building.)
    • You can purchase more than one of any of the buildings, as long as they fit onto your farm square – if you want to draw your own farm buildings, use the size requirements written on the “Building Bank” page as a guide.
• Draw a “Settler’s Surprise” card if you land on a season square or if you don’t have the resources to complete the task you have been given.
• Track all changes on the player sheet.
  • Any resources that are used to buy a building go into the “used” column of the year that the item is purchased.  At the end of every year, all the resources are totaled up and start a new line in the “start” column.

​​5. The game ends when everyone gets to the “End of Year” square the third time (the end of the second year).

• Be sure to include any resources that you stored in your barn in your end of Year 2 total.
• The winner is the person who has the highest total resource score at the end of the game.

​HAVE FUN!!

Note: The two “lose a dice roll of food” squares are different. The first one (with a jar on it) is in reference to your food stores running low in winter, and the second (with a pig) is because wild pigs have come through and eaten some of your food.