Predicting opponent moves

A simple game, that does not require dice-roll and could be used as a sub-element of any game (and is used in fact in games today - when players compete for a value spending some wealth in secret - "Game Of Thrones")

2-5 (or more) players
Each starts with a predefined number of 'points'.
We go into rounds. Each round player is required to say, how many points will he spend. Person that will choose the highest number of points - wins. If two players are equal - they share the win equally. After determining the winner - points are taken from players and we go with the next round. All finishes, when no-one on board has spare points.

To give an example - three player game, let's name them A, B, C and D. Each has 10 points.

Round 1
A - 1, B - 5, C - 4, D - 10 - winner D (1pt).
R2
A - 1, B - 1, C - 2, D - 0 - winner C(1pt).
R3
A -1, B - 3, C - 4, D - 0 - winner C(1pt).
R4
A - 1, B - 1, C - 0, D - 0 - winner A+B(0.5pt)

And A for 6 games more.

After all
A - 6.5 pt
B - .5 pt
C - 2 pt
D - 1 pt

Just simple as it is. The advantage here also is - it is really, really quick. A bit different topic, but still - a valid one on the blog subject :) How to invent a board game.

Some light into the design!

Most recently I do have quite a significant improvements. I did finish off all the cards - those are now ready to print!!! (sample is shown on the left). Following my quite innovative thinking at work - I did follow it up to here. And the simple thing is - since I have quite issues with getting all the wooden parts - let's skip them for the moment and see - how it will work without. For this purpose - as tokens I will use old and new coins. Than I will stick some markers to it, as it was originally predicted. Aditionally - I've purchased metal space ships! It was 2.5GBP per 12 small ships - and that I consider a great price. I hope they'll arrive soon since I plan to redecorate 'ship' board to accomodate those little ships.
What I will now concentrate on is to:

• Finish off design for space ship card template
• Finish off design for planet (note - it is different to ones already posted here)
• Finish off all the 'cut lines' for plotter.

I would really hope, that I will be capable of doing some test print (of cards for example) yet this weekend. That will be the first and ultimately - very important step forward. I will probably print out the stickers to the coins as well. Summarizing - I'm almost done in here!! :)

Almost forgot - the PDF counter is also quite nice. For Today - I did only 'pure' paper version. That already helped me in reconsidering the design, that will most probably be now changed slightly, but only slightly. Still - the idea works pretty well - at least for me. What is bothering - is that whole idea would best fit on some 'thick' wood or plastic of a kind so that holding it is quite simple. Well - this is for future.