Riot Games announced a simple board game this year called Tellstones. The gameplay is simple -- my six-year-old picked it up from watching a few rounds. It largely consists of memory and bluffing as the tiles are flipped upside-down and swapped in a slow, deliberate shell game.
The official game features high-quality components and a theme I don't really understand. I rethemed it as a Star Wars game!
I designed symbols for the tiles and engraved them onto black acrylic with a laser cutter. The images really pop once they're painted.
Each tile has blue acrylic glued to its back, which provides a satisfying heft and a neat color contrast when they're face down.
If you have ten minutes, learn how to play and try it out with a few playing cards. You'll find out whether these really are the droids you're looking for!
