Quick Innings: A card battling party game.

Quick Innings is a two player head to head card battling game with a big dexterity component and rule creation game play.

Objective

In a game of Quick Innings, two players aim to either have the most points after 10 rounds OR knock the bail off the stumps to score a Quick Inning!

Game set up

First take the string pitch and form a long rectangle, with the short ends facing each player. Then take the wicket pieces (two stumps and one bail) and stack them on either side of the string pitch. Put the point tokens to one side of the pitch, and give each player one twelve sided die. Shuffle the deck of twenty cards and give a hand of 10 to each player.

Simultaneous play

Each round both players secretly choose one card from their hand to play, then simultaneously reveal those cards.

Roll cards

The bat and ball cards are Roll cards, when played, that player rolls their die from behind their wicket and attempts to score a Quick Inning.

If a bat card is played against a ball card, both players roll as normal, but the die with the higher result earns that player a bonus point.

Scoring a Quick Inning 

To score a Quick Inning, a player must roll their die towards their opponent’s wicket in the hopes of knocking the bail off of the stumps, without knocking over the stumps, if that happens that player loses any points they may have scored so far.

Field cards

The run and catch cards block the Roll cards earning the player a point and preventing their opponent from rolling their die, with catch beating bat and run beating ball. If you play a field card against the wrong roll card, your opponent still gets to roll and earns a bonus point

Cheat

The cheat card allows you to cheat during your turn and score a point. If both players play a cheat card at the same time, they swap hands for the rest of the game.

Umpire cards

The penalty card blocks the cheat card, forcing the cheater to lose one point and earning you a point as well.

The umpire card allows that player to introduce a new rule that lasts for the rest of the game. The rule has to be agreed upon and applies to both players.

Examples of umpire rules

Umpire rules can directly effect the shape of the pitch, dictate how dice are thrown, such as over hand only or blind throwing, or may effect how cards are played, such as blind draws or your opponent gets to choose for you. Use your imagination to make every game unique.

after 10 rounds if no one has scored a Quick Inning, the player with the most points wins the game

Off side rule

If one of the dice should roll off the table and be cleanly caught by a player in there hand, they score a bonus point.

• What’s in the box

Each copy of Quick Innings comes with 20 cards, 20 scoring tokens, a string pitch, 2 twelve sided dice, and two sets of wickets.

• Backer levels

There is only one backer tier which includes one copy of Quick Innings, with the option of adding additional copies as add-ons 

• Who am I?

My name is Tom Lavery and I’ve been an amateur designer for a long time. I felt it was about time I launched my first board game on Kickstarter after the success of my first campaign “Horse Majeure”, a Comedy TTRPG.

In my professional life i am an Animator working in Canada, and if you didnt know, the animation industry is in a rough spot right now, so work is hard to come by, so I’m taking the opportunity to devote my time to this passion project in earnest and hopefully see enough success to consider making more of my games a reality

I am the sole designer and artist for Quick Innings and know very little about actual cricket, thankfully I’ve designed this game in such a way that no prior knowledge of cricket is necessary to enjoy it.

Lastly i am proud to say that no AI was used at any point in the production of this game.

• Shipping estimates

Shipping will be charged after the campaign concludes through pledge manager, and I am working with QuarterMaster Logistics to handle fulfillment. 

Below is a rough estimate of what shipping costs will be based on region:

Should this project exceed its goal, I will be using the additional funds to subsidize shipping costs for all backers as much as possible