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Tea Party for a Stranger

Abstract Strategy Game | Team Size: 3 | January 2023 | Two players | Age range 8 and up

Tea Party for a Stranger is a chaotic version of chess where the rules change almost every turn! 

Play time: ~5mn

Comic Script

5000 words

Game

You have wandered into wonderland, and have come across the mad hatter’s tea party. He wants to play chess with whatever pieces he has laying around, but of course, he wants to win, so he keeps changing the rules on you. The goal is to win what the current objective of the game is. Careful now: the goal can change at any time, should your opponent want to, and some other surprises might be found along the way. Stay on guard!

Story

“Curiouser and curiouser ! I have followed the march hare all this time and have
now come across what seems to be a tea party with him and his friends! There’s a
dormouse, but she’s sleeping, and a queer fellow who looks to be a hatter. He likes
games, it seems, but so far I’ve liked none of them. He’s asked riddles he didn’t know
the answers to, and he’s offered things he didn’t have. And now of course, he wants
to play chess but hasn’t the pieces for it ! Well, fine ! If he wants to play, we’ll play,
but I have had enough of his nonsense, and I’m going to beat him at his own game !
Come, we shall have some fun now !”

Hatter Hare and Dormouse.jpg

Team

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