ZZZT!

Greetings. We here at-ZZZT!!! Gaaaaaaah!!!

Man, I really thought that wire would be the blue one.

ahemSorry... like I was saying: we here at... um...

...Zzzt Productions?

...are proud to offer these latest releases of our vast and long-celebrated catalog of tabletop games for the entire...

...okay you know what, listen: it's really just me, Bruce Bielawa. I live in Southeast Michigan, I've been designing tabletop games off and on all my life, maybe the last ten years in earnest... I go to as many Protospiels as I can afford... but there's nothing formally published here yet...

...except that TGC has this killer contest going on right now, where we have to design a complete game on a single poker-sized playing card - including the rules! - and that's the sort of challenge I just can't pass up.

So here's my submission: it's called ZZZT!. It's a game of spatial memory where you're passing a single card back and forth between players and from hand to hand, every time trying to place your thumb over one of your own "trigger wires" - in order to... I dunno... ground it? - to keep it from zapping you. The challenge is that you're placing it from memory, on the side of the card you can't see. When you turn the card over, if you can see that wire touching your thumb... ZZZT! You have to start your streak of "safe takes" over again. The first person either to perform 9 safe takes in a row, or else the last person to get ZZZT'ed 3 times... is the winner.

Here's hoping it brings you hours of stress and frustration. FUN! I meant fun. Cheers...

ZZZT!!! Gaaaaaaaah!!!