A (hopefully) novel idea on having the outcome of play from one game impact that of the other.
This video gave me a wild idea. This type of game is a genre of its own. What if you played TWO DIFFERENT board games like these AT ONCE, alternating rounds between each game? The aim being that alliances and betrayals occurring in each game impact those of the other as well.
Explanation: 1) Each player plays their turn in one game, then play freezes prior to the "resolution" ("revelation" ?) phase (if there is one) of this game.
Each player plays their turn in the other game, stopping prior to the resolution phase of this second game (if there is one).
Then complete the resolution phase of the first game (if there is one), first, followed by the resolution phase of the second game (again, if there is one).
Players eliminated in one game can continue to play and form alliances or commit betrayals in the other game as normal, and if they so choose, even factoring in progression of alliances/betrayals of other players from the game in which they're eliminated into their decisions for the game in which they're still active.
Optional 5) If one game's length is estimated to take much longer than the other, you can start a second session of the shorter of the two games once it completes the first time, or even substitute in a third board game estimated to be short, for the second completed game. This is so progression of alliances/betrayals have an impact on the second session of the shorter game right from the beginning.
By resolution/revelation phase I mean, for example with the game in the above video, the phase where everyone reveals whether they used blanks or a bullet (or the equivalent in your games of choice).
An alternate version of the above rules could be that resolution phases aren't halted at prior to their execution so each game does the full round (turns and resolution) before switching to the second game and back again. I'd imagine which variant of these rules works best would depend on the combinations of games used and the order in which each is begun. You might even try reversing the resolution phases in the above explanations and see if that makes things more interesting, so even though you started game one first, you resolve the round of game two first, then resolve the round of game one if you see what I mean.
I don't have enough friends to test this out nor the board game sets to try it, so you all would have to experiment for me if you wanted to try this. I just wanted to throw the idea out into the world. 🙂 If you do try it out, I'd love to hear about your experience, which games you used, and how it went!
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