Nice Games Jam: "Rules"

Prompt

Make a puzzle game that requires a text/readme file or some other sort of text thing that you have to use as a guide to figure out the game. Then as the level progresses, the guide changes, to be harder to understand, or to tell a story, or to taunt.

Game type

Tabletop game

Player count

2

Materials

Some set of blocks (we used 10 cubes), different colors

Pencil/Pen

Paper

Setup

The Codemaker comes up with sequence of blocks

Rules

The Codemaker creates a list of four rules to help the Codebreaker player guess the sequence
- Rules cannot specifically place a cube in a place in the sequence
- Rules can only involve one relationship between two sets of cubes
Read first rule, and the Codebreaker creates a pattern based on rule
If the sequence is not correct, read the next rule and have the Codebreaker make a new pattern based on the revealed set of rules
Repeat until the player has created the correct pattern
If the Codebreaker needs more than the four rules, the code maker then makes a new rule immediately, and the Codebreaker makes a new sequence with these rules.
The Codemaker can call for a mulligan up to 3 times total in the game so the player can make a new pattern with the same sets of rules
Scored based how many rules are needed before the code breaker solves the sequence
Some example rules:
- 1. No same colors touching
- 2. If a sequence of colors appears in the line, it must appear again in reverse
- 3. Green cubes appear before yellow cubes
- 4. Pink cubes appear in-between red cubes
- 5. Any brown cube must touch a dark green cube
- 6. A brown cube may not touch a red cube or a yellow cube
- 7. Light versions of colors come before dark versions of colors