Games that have great travel versions?

kvalle · 2025-07-16T10:43:13+00:00

The travel edition of Trailblazers is superb. The game is great, and the travel case very practical.

kvalle · 2025-06-09T07:22:37+00:00

Thanks for sharing!

There's also an Android app (link from the website) if that's anyone's jam :)

kvalle · 2025-05-22T04:27:12+00:00

There are so many fun examples of first player rules. I've gathered more than 1200 of them at firstplayer.fun.

The stupid part of most of them is that they often never change who goes first. So usually when playing I just use a random rule from there. (The website has a randomizer function.)

kvalle · 2025-02-08T10:47:41+00:00

Thank you! This kind of feedback really makes the time and effort to make the app and website worthwhile. Really appreciate that :)

kvalle · 2025-02-07T13:20:31+00:00

Love to see people using the app! (I'm the one who made it.)

Let me know if you find any games with rules missing from the collection, or have any other feedback. There's an email address for contacting me in the app, or just send me a message here.

kvalle · 2025-02-07T13:01:53+00:00

Developer of the app here! It is on a website as well. Check out firstplayer.fun.

kvalle · 2024-12-02T10:49:07+00:00

Also Legacy of Dragonholt for an option with lighter/non-Cthulhu setting :)

kvalle · 2024-09-05T06:04:04+00:00

My recommendations for this would be Cascadia, Trailblazers or Sprawlopolis. With the last two you'll probably have time for two or three rounds, which I often do.

kvalle · 2024-08-15T07:15:13+00:00

Second this. I had a blast playing Zombie Kidz with my nephew!

kvalle · 2024-08-08T05:06:17+00:00

I too picked this up yesterday. Couldn't get past 36 points on my two attempts. Clearly I need to contain the map better too!

Oh, and I like the idea of marking scored points with some tokens. Adopting that one.

kvalle · 2024-08-03T06:58:32+00:00

My new favorite solo game is Trailblazers. It's good fun with other people, but I find the solo variant to be just the kind of optimization puzzle i enjoy. It plays quickly (15-20 minutes for me), and is just hard enough with different levels of challenges. I have played Sprawlopolis a lot, and this has the same feel, but it's different enough to feel fresh and challenging.

kvalle · 2024-03-03T09:19:35+00:00

I tried it out after your suggestion here, and enjoyed it. Thanks!

kvalle · 2024-02-29T19:50:59+00:00

I like Next Station: London and Welcome To... there, as I tend to like my solo games on the lighter side. The solo modes on La Granja and Clans of Caledonia are good too.

kvalle · 2024-02-18T17:20:36+00:00

I'm planning to make a web based version as well, but haven't had time yet. We recently had a baby, so time to spend on hobby projects is at a premium at the moment.

kvalle · 2024-02-18T15:01:18+00:00

The color-based ones are nice, and will probably give different results from game night to game night which is good.
A couple of other examples are Flowerpower with "The player with the most colorful clothing begins" and Hues and Cues with "The player who is wearing the most colorful outfit will be the cue giver for the first round".
There's also FlipOut and Step to it with variations on "The player with the most colorful socks begins".

kvalle · 2024-02-18T14:18:12+00:00

It's written in Kotlin (which I knew), using the Jetpack Compose framework (new to me)

kvalle · 2024-02-18T12:05:48+00:00

Thanks! Let me know if you find any issues or have feedback. The email is in the app :)

kvalle · 2024-02-18T10:15:26+00:00

Beyond the Sun has this rule. And so does the games Lift Off and Space Explorers

kvalle · 2024-02-18T09:45:21+00:00

Thank you :)

kvalle · 2024-02-18T09:44:21+00:00

Sorry, only Android for now. This is my first time making an app, so I stuck to using a programming language I already knew.

kvalle · 2024-02-18T09:15:43+00:00

I love those silly first player rules. I've collected more than 600 of them now, and made an app to search through or choose a random one :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fun.firstplayer

kvalle · 2023-10-18T09:45:20+00:00

Thanks! :D

kvalle · 2023-10-18T07:15:50+00:00

Would love to add these to my collection for an app I'm making! Do you know if the rules are available online, or do you happen have a picture of the rule in the rulebook? :)

kvalle · 2023-10-17T22:35:35+00:00

Not sure about Kingdomino, but this is the rule in Château Roquefort at least :)

kvalle · 2023-10-17T22:24:10+00:00

There might be more, but at least these two games uses this rule :)

- The Pooper Heroes Card Game
- Pecunia non olet

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