A little Easter microgame from PlayWise — if you’d like to decorate eggs not just in real life.
For 2-3 players, ages 6 and up, 15 minutes.
The game's components are very simple. You need six classic dice, draw as many eggs on a grid paper notebook as there are players, based on the pattern below. You also need six colored pencils or markers, with them draw 6 squares, one for each color, large enough to fit a die. This will be the dice selection area, one is enough, there's no need for each player to have their own.
The gameplay. The player whose turn it is rolls all the dice and places them in the colored frames as they wish. Then, they choose a die first, and subsequently, the other players each pick one in a clockwise direction. Thus, in a round, players take turns multiple times and choose from the remaining dice.
The coloring rules. You must color in as many spaces as the die shows, and the color must match the frame from which you selected the die. A full square counts as one space, and half of a divided square also counts as one space. In a round, you can either color full squares or half squares, but not both.
Scoring. The game ends in the round when someone has colored in their entire egg. At this point, ensure that everyone has had an equal number of turns, with the same number of dice selections and coloring opportunities. Then you can start scoring. First, look at the half squares and establish an order based on which color has the most, second most, and third most. In the event of a tie, you decide which comes first. Then, count the full squares for these colors. The most valuable color will be the one with the most half squares, with each full square of this color worth 3 points, the second most valuable color worth 2 points per full square, and the third 1 point per full square. The player with the most points wins; in case of a tie, there are multiple winners.
(The colored egg above is worth 48 points because red was the most valuable color, with 6 collected making 18 points, the 11 blue ones worth 22 points, and the 8 yellow ones 8 points.)
By the way, this game is also included in the Coloring Board Games, along with 10 additional game ideas.
