Oh My Gourds!

In OH MY GOURDS!, players are rival farmers sneaking around at night and smashing each other's prized produce to make sure that their own gourds will win the 'Best Gourd' prize at the state fair.

Each game of OH MY GOURDS! is played as a series of simultaneous 2 player duels. Players each have a deck of cards numbered 1-9 representing their gourds. 9 is the biggest gourd, and 1 is the smallest.

To duel, two players each put one of their cards face down in front of them in their 'lock box', then announce to the other player which of their opponent's cards they want to destroy. if the named card is in their opponent's hand, it is put in the center of the table face down and removed from play.

Finally, both players secretly compare the cards in their lock boxes. If those two cards are the same value, OR if their values added together equal exactly 10, both of those cards are ALSO put in the center of the table face down and removed from play. Otherwise, the lock box cards go back to their owners hands.

All players continue dueling in this way, switching opponents evenly, until one player has 1 or 0 cards left at the end of a duel. This triggers the end game. Then all players finish out the current round of duels. Finally, all players reveal their highest value card, and the player with the highest value wins game! if there is a tie, the tied players add up the value of all cards in their hand, and whoever has the highest added value wins.

This is a fun, frantic card counting game for 2-6 players and plays in no more than 30 minutes. It was independently produced by Omari Akil, and Matthew Everhart in 2019 with funding from incredible patrons on kickstarter.

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