Status: In Production

Introduction
Collect, steal or bank. Each round you must guess what your opponents are going to do and respond accordingly. Guess right and you’ll take the lion’s share of the pot. Guess wrong and someone else just might steal all your hard earned stones away from you. Stones is pebble collecting game of press your luck where victory must be earned from start to finish. Quick, deep and exciting.

Game Details
Theme: Paleolithic
Game Type: Stone Collecting
Number of Players: 2 – 5
Time per Game: 10-15 min
Minimum Age: 8 years
Category: Abstract Strategy
Mechanic: Bluffing, Rock-Paper-Scissors

Components
50 Red Stones
50 Blue Stones
50 Yellow Stones
5 Black Stones
5 Clear Stones
1 Storage Bag

Object of the Game
Collect as many stones as you can. The player with the most stones at the end of the game wins.

How to Play
Each round players add a random assortment of stones, colored red, yellow and blue, from the bag to a common pot. You then need to secretly decide which of the three colors of stones you want to collect. You also have the opportunity to collect more than one color, but you risk not getting any if your opponents choose to take only one color from the colors you want. Rather than collect stones from the common pot, you can steal one color of stones from the collection of the player who has the most instead, or, if you sense that your collection is the one that might be stolen, to bank your stones. Once banked, your stones cannot be stolen. But, it takes a whole round to do it, so you’ll have to figure out when it is good to bank and when you should collect or steal some more. When the bag runs out of stones, the game is over at the end of the round and whoever has collected the most stones wins.

Rules
(forthcoming)

Publicity
(forthcoming)

Credits
Trademark: Stones™
Copyright: ©2010 Evertide Games
Publisher: Tasty Minstrel Games
Release Date: Fall 2010
Representative: Sorvent, Inc.
Game Design: Richard James
Game Development: Michael Nickoloff
Graphic Design: Evertide Games
Playtesting: William Lee, Jeffrey Shih, Matt Schoonmaker-Gates, Anna Acero, David Hampton, Marissa Oshige, Joseph Nunn, Kristina Sophia Della Eronat, Christopher Colli, Katie Sciarrino, Caroline Osborn, Christine Glaser, Sonya Hammer, Mandy Skorubski, Irina Dyldina, Luca Holme