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Bigfoot 4 - deck building

Object

  • Whoever catches the most sasquatches. Tie breaker is the most money!

Game End

  • game ends if one player collects one bigfoot from each country
    • player with all 4 bigfoots wins.
  • game ends if any country cannot be replenished with new land
    • player with most money wins

Mechanisms

  • Deck / pool building
    • Store
      • buying / selling (trashing) cards

On Your Turn

You may:

  1. Travel to another country (or not)
  2. Start Adventuring
  3. Get rescued or helicoptered back to town / store

Adventuring on the map

  • cost money to fly to different country
  • Start adventuring
    • always start with the same amount of cards (5)
  1. Draw from deck
    • spend movement points (must be used immediately)
      • when you move adjacent to a space with a token, turn it over to discover it. gain 1 dollar.
      • if it is a sasquatch, it will escape if not caught in the current adventure. Replace with new token.
    • spend hunting points (must be used immediately)
      • take the token if you can afford it.
    • collect food points
      • food points determine how many cards you can draw up on the next turn (if you don't leave).
    • collect money / gold etc via furs, gold, tools etc
  2. Adventuring ends when you run out of food or cards to draw up or if you choose to leave.
    • you can return early
    • the more cards and food that you have, the further you can go.
    • if you run out, return to the store and you can spend.

The map

map of the world
4 cities known for Sasquatch
travelling on the same continent is cheaper than travelling to another continent
Each location will have a city
you can purchase food at any City.

Each area will have:

  • A pile of wilderness tiles
  • Each tile will be a hex grid
  • containing one basecamp / helipad
  • some spaces will generate constantly - fruit trees, berries, fish, town / village, small animals
  • hexes that have tokens - large animals will be farthest from basecamp
    • price of token is determined by number on hex. IE you might pay more for the same token depending on which hex it's on.

4 stores / 4 countries

  • Each country will sell some cards that favour their strengths
  • they will also all sell essentials
  1. food - Canada
    • extra food generating cards
    • forest (food), grass, lakes (food), rivers,
  2. money - US
    • extra money generating cards
    • forest, grass, lakes, rivers, towns (food/money)
  3. hunting - Tibet
    • lots of hunting generating cards
    • mountains (1 to cross), forest, caves, temples (food)
  4. travel - Nepal
    • lots of travel generating cards
      • boots, rope etc
    • high mountains (2 to cross), forest, caves
      • no extra food!!! hard to travel
Country Terrain Terrain Diff Terrain Food Terrain Money Tokens
Canada forest (food), grass, lakes (food), rivers 0 2 1 Mostly food, small/med animals, rare large animal
USA forest, grass, lakes (food), rivers, towns(money), mines(money) 01 2 Mostly money, small/med animals, rare large animal
Tibet mountains (1 to cross), forest, caves, temples (food) 10 0 Med / some large animals
Nepal high mountains (2 to cross), forest, caves 2 0 0 Many Large Animals

With bonus collectible tokens on it:

  • food - fruit trees
  • money - gold, emeralds
  • animals worth (food / money)
    • free (0 cost)
      • sighting
      • Foot prints
    • small (1 cost) - 2 food
      • small animals (rabbits, squirrels, game fowl)
    • medium animals (2-3 cost) - 2 food/furs
      • medium animals (deer, fox, mountain goat)
      • Himlayas - Scalps
      • NA - Jackalope
    • large animals (4-5 cost) - food/ivory/fur - two bags
      • Grey wolf
      • Moose
      • Grizley bear
      • Bigfoot
      • Sasquatch
      • ————
      • Wolves
      • Snow Leopard
      • Himalayan snow bear
      • Abominable Snowman
      • Yeti
  • terrain will tell which cost token goes where. The high ones are never near the entrance.

Terrain that costs more to traverse:

mountains
rivers

Cards

  • Eating food lets you draw more cards

global

  • new sighting in country (free card), flip new terrain tile in any unoccupied land
  • store clearance card (free card), discount on a purchase
  • new stock (replace all cards in the store with new ones)
  • flight discount

food cards

  • packed lunch (2)
  • beef jerky (2)
  • mushrooms field book (use in fields or forest) (3)
  • berries guide (use in fields or forest) (3)
  • fishing rod (use if next to water) (3)
  • small game trap (3)
  • Campers, buy up to 2 food with money

money cards

  • furs / pelts (1)
  • big foot print maker (2)
  • big foot costume (2)
  • gold pan (1)
  • news interview (1)
  • reality tv show (3)
  • farmers market, convert upto 2 food to money

travel cards

  • snow shoes (1)
  • rope (1)
  • local guide (3)
  • tent (3)
  • sleeping bag (2)
  • goggles (2)
  • adrenaline (drop 1 food and one money to move up to two spaces)

hunt cards

  • guns (2)
  • traps (1)
  • lures (1)
  • cameras (3)
  • binoculars (2)
  • night vision (3)
  • tranquilizer gun (4) (only works on big game)


 

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