Puzzle Strike: Bag of Chips

Puzzle Strike: Bag of Chips
Designer(s) David Sirlin
Publisher(s) Sirlin Games
Players 2 to 4
Age range 8 and up
Playing time ~20 minutes
Random chance Medium
Skill(s) required Resource management

Puzzle Strike: Bag of Chips (often shortened to Puzzle Strike) is a designer dedicated deck card game created by David Sirlin, inspired by Dominion and Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo. It features asymmetric gameplay, and uses specially printed chips in place of cards.

Gameplay

The objective of Puzzle Strike is similar to that of competitive puzzle games like Tetris or Puzzle Fighter. All players have a gradually increasing pile of gem chips, and the game ends when one player concludes their turn with too many gems in their pile. The goal is to have the emptiest pile when any other player tops out.

In addition to a gem pile, each player has a bag of chips, which they treat like a deck of cards - chips are drawn from the bag one at a time to form a player's hand and, when empty, the bag gets replenished from the player's discard pile. Over the course of the game, a player's bag can contain many different sorts of chips:

Every non-gem chip has a banner-color which helps categorize it, and may have certain symbols on the banner, such as a red fist to indicate an Attack (played to put other players at a disadvantage), or a colored shield to indicate a Reaction (which can be played out-of-turn in certain conditions).

Each turn, the player performs the following phases:

The game ends when one player ends their turn with more than nine gems in their gem pile, at which point victory goes to the player with the smallest gem pile.

Expansion

Puzzle Strike: Shadows is a stand-alone expansion for the game, providing ten new characters (previously featured in the second edition of Flash Duel), and twenty four all new puzzle chips. It was initially funded, along with a third edition of the original game, through a Kickstarter campaign.

Promotional Chips

Three additional puzzle chips have been created for the game. They were originally included with the Puzzle Strike Upgrade Pack.

Puzzle Strike Online

Awards and Honors

References

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