Universal Board Game Kit

What it is

The UBK is a collection of pieces and boards which allows you to play a number of board games with limited resources. This is perfect for people who like board games but don't have a lot of real estate or cash to devote to them: college students, people in tiny apartments, cheapskates, or just plain freaks.

Download

Right here

Components

• Piece pack:
  • 10 each of 8 colors of gems. I used glass gems from a crafts store--cheap in bulk, but a gaming store might sell smaller quantities.
  • 8 6-sided dice. These can be relatively expensive (up to 50¢ each), and you can play most games with only two.
  • 2 colors of token sets (10 tokens per set). These can be cut out of a printed sheet, and glued to little wooden circles if you want more depth to them.
• Game boards (see left bar for a complete list)

All components and their source files can be obtained by downloading the kit.

Pictures

Here are a few pictures of my kit.

Planned boards

• Piecepack pieces
• Piecepack pyramids
• UBK Money
• Clue
• Monopoly
• Chinese Checkers
• Reversi
• Mancala (just need an egg carton)
• Royal Game of Ur
• Go (Pente might be more feasable)
• Solitare
• Fox and Geese

How you can help

Make some boards! Design them however you want (I do mine by hand in PostScript, but you can use whatever tools you'd like) and send me a PDF file of the board and the source file (HTML, DIA, VISIO, Word, or whatever you used to make it). If you can't generate PDF files or don't know how to, email me and I can probably help you out.

License

The UBK is distributed under the GNU General Public License, which basically says that you can use it, change it, and give away copies of it for free, but you can't restrict anybody else's right to do the same with the original or any derivative version. Read the file COPYING.txt for more information.