Programmer's Nightmare
Game Details
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Publishers
- Jolly Games
- Year1998
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Authors
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Links
- OwnerDieter Baron
- Players2–6
- Playtime—
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Components
- rules
- counter
- cards
Description
In this game, players take turns laying out program instructions with ``ownership bits'' on the cards they play, creating a long line of interrelating program instructions that become more complicated as the program builds. Finally, a player will play a RUN card and set the program running. Who will survive the convolutions of the program? That's anyone's guess; each player decides if and how their own program instructions will function!
There is a ``Version 2'' of the game in the rules; the program is dealt out at random in a loop, the players take turns claiming instructions that they think will let them win the game. Much of this game's strategy is based upon the initial selection of Program Instructions. Version 2 involves much more strategy and less luck.