House of Doors

House of Doors

Designer: Randy Cox
Publisher: About.com: 2004 Shared Pieces Game Design Competition
Type: Board
Status: Free
Available from: http://boardgames.about.com/od/sharedpieces/a/house_of_doors.htm

Equipment:

• 1 4x4 square grid board
• 2 differently colored tokens, one for each player
• 8 doors (dominoes on-edge, Settlers of Catan roads or the like)

Eight doors are placed within the grid, as well as the two players' tokens. On each turn, the active player must perform two actions: 1. The first action must move the active player's token, either by simple movement (moving his piece one space orthagonally, not diagonally, into an adjacent space,) or by sweeping the token into a space by swinging a door. 2. The second action may be either a single-space orthagonal movement of his piece, or a door swing that may or may not result in the movement of either player's token. If a door was moved in the first action, the same door may not be moved again in the second action.

A player loses if he is unable to move his token on the first action of his turn because it is blocked by doors and/or the opponent's token.

An entry into the About.com: 2004 Shared Pieces Game Design Competition.