We were given a unique grad school assignment to create a board game for any age demographic. We chose ”all,” because it shouldn’t matter how old you are – as long as you like fun, you'd probably love a game about rainbow unicorn poop.
AD/CW: Amrit Sahni | XD: Meghan Gaffney
Strap on your unicorn horn and enter the magical land of Meadow Muffins, where everyone is a unicorn, and the first one to poop wins! Fill out your poop cards with like-colored marbles in order to propel your colored “meadow muffin” game piece down the board. But be careful, your opponents can curse you with constipation cards (move backwards) or the dreaded rainbow diarrhea cards (lose your marbles) — oh no! If your meadow muffin exits your intestine first, you win! What a relief.
THE GAME
THE MARBLE DISPENSER
The marble dispenser is what keeps the game moving. On your turn, you will examine the colors on your poop cards and determine which color marbles you will need in order to fill it up. In this example, your card requires 2 pink marbles and 3 green marbles.
On your turn, you may remove and keep one marble from any column of the marble dispenser, causing other marbles to clank together. Let’s say you remove the pink marble from the far left column. This causes 3 green marbles to clank together, which you also get to keep! You may now place the 1 red marble and the 3 green marbles on your poop card.
THE PIECES
Unicorn Horns
At the beginning of the game, you will pick a colored unicorn horn and strap it on your head. Each horn color corresponds to a colored unicorn on the board, as well as a meadow muffin game piece that you will use to navigate through your matching intestine.
MEADOW MUFFINS
The meadow muffin will mark your progress down the board as you fill up poop cards with marbles. If your meadow muffin reaches the end of your intestine first, you’ve successfully pooped before the other unicorns.
Congratulations — that means you’ve won!
“Progress” Poop CarD
The progress poop card comes in two forms, +2 or +3. After you have fully filled your poop card with its respective colored marbles, you’ll move your meadow muffin forward 2 or 3 spaces on the board.
“Constipation” Poop Card
The constipation poop card is also given to your opponents. This unwelcome gift will cause its recipient to move back up the intestine. (Ew.) Their meadow muffin will move two spaces back on the board. Bummer for them, but helpful for you!
Poop CardS
The poop cards have various colors and functions. Your goal is to collect marbles that correspond to the colors on your poop cards, until they are filled. Once a card is filled, you can perform its action. Some cards will propel you forward. Others will slow down your opponents.
“Diarrhea” Poop Card
The diarrhea poop card is given to your opponents. If one of your opponents has an almost-full poop card, you might want to hand them one of these. This card will cause them to lose all their marbles! Just point to any of their poop cards (you get to choose). They will have to put all the marbles from that card into the marble dispenser. What a mess.
