Feeling Lucky?

Schmidt Spiele · 2024

Translation, German to English

A lightweight push-your-luck-come-tableau-builder game. Players use a shared set of rolled dice to “climb a ladder” of task cards, attempting to get as high as possible to score points. Over the course of the game, players add task cards for better income to be able to add better task cards and push their existing cards up into the scoring range. Risk too much and you go bust for the round. This project is one of those extremely rare examples of the final client not being satisfied. In my defence, none of the intermediaries including the initial proofreader thought there was anything wrong with the translation. Unfortunately however, I used a turn of phrase right at the beginning that the client’s editor did not like, and this triggered a ‘horns effect’ (the reverse version of the halo effect, a psychological bias that colours a person’s judgement of something).