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Gone to Texas Survival Game

3/20/2020

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Got cabin fever? Take your family back to early pioneer days of Texas with the board game created by staff member Allison!

Gone to Texas: Survival Game!

Provided: (CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE PDF)
  • Game Board
  • Settler’s Surprise cards
  • Movement dice (will need to be assembled)
  • Player sheet
Not provided:
  • Two additional regular dice
  • Game tokens
  • Scissors (to cut things apart to get the game set up)
  • Tape (to assemble the movement dice)
 
Directions:
  1. Cut apart all of the Settler’s Surprise cards and stack them on top of the game board
  2. Assemble the movement dice. (Cut along the outside of the shape, fold all the lines, and assemble it into a cube using tape to hold all the edges together.)
  3. Cut apart the player sheets and give one to every player (more than four can play at a time, just make sure there is a player card for every person playing.)
  4. Follow the rules listed on the game board to play:
    1. Start all game tokens on the “Fall square”
    2. Roll the “movement” dice to see how far to move each turn
    3. 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.
    4. Track all changes on the player sheet.
    5. Have fun!
  5. The game ends when everyone gets to the “End of Year” square the third time (the end of the second year).
    1. The winner is the person who has the highest total resource score at the end of the game
 
Discussion Questions:
  1. Was it easy to survive the two years?
  2. Did you feel that you brought enough resources with you? What do you think you should have brought more of? What would you have brought less of?
  3. Did you run out of any resources? If so, what resources? What sort of impact would running out of that resource have on your family?
  4. Were there any resources that you ran low on? What sort of impact would running low of that resource have on your family?
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