GIVEAWAY – Free card game

Free Giveaway to Celebrate my First Publishing Contract

Thank you to everyone who took part. The winner has been notified, and can expect to receive the card game within a month or so. To make the time go faster, I’m also throwing in a $30 Amazon gift card.

It has been more than a month now since I signed my first book contract with Champagne Book Group for my book Divide and Conquer. When I found the e-mail in my inbox, I was totally thrilled. Scale from one to ten, I’d give my excitement a solid ten. Obviously.

And yet I didn’t get the chance to celebrate. Revel in well-meant back slaps and a chorus of ‘congratulations.’ Or, you know, a ‘well done’ here or there. It’s too late to whip out the champagne, so I thought I would do a fun little giveaway. A kind of Easter egg hunt. Somewhere on my website, embedded on a page or in a posts, is a green box that tells you exactly what you have to do to be in with a chance of winning. The winner’s name will be drawn at random on July 4, 2014.
So, what’s the prize? I want to combine my love of inventing games with this celebratory giveaway and offer an extremely limited promo copy of one of my most popular games, a math-based card game called Genius (see picture on the right to get a glimpse of what the promo box will look like). I will produce no more than five copies carrying my promo banner.

Want to know more about Genius?

Educational games are often pretty heavy on the ‘educational’ and light on the ‘game.’ Not Genius!

Perfect for anyone who wishes to put their brain cells through boot camp or their palms through a gleeful rub, Genius is a simple card game in the tradition of UNO and mau mau, where players must get rid of their cards before their opponents do. You discard cards by performing simple chains of mathematical operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division).

An assortment of chance cards add a layer of excitement. Or irritation. Kind of depends on the situation.

Fun for 2-5 players of all ages (assuming they can add up to at least 20), this game offers everyone the chance to be crowned Genius for the day.

I’ve made a special promo version carrying my website banner along the sides of the tuckbox (see pic on the right). Oh, and the instructions come in English and German.

The cards will be professionally produced by The Gamecrafter, but bear in mind I’m not a professional games designer. Also, since it will be printed on a one-by-one basis, delivery might take about a month. The game has proven incredibly popular with kids, parents and teachers, although I admit to spending many a lunchtime playing it with co-workers. Because math aside, it’s simply a fun game. It has not as yet been publicly available, because I’m concentrating on writing at the moment, but it’s due to be published, in a plain white tuckbox, in summer 2015.

Enjoy.