♣ ♥ Sum Squares ♦ ♠

Platform: Print and Play

Genre: Card Game

Rating: E

Target Market: casual/strategy, Age 10+

Overview:

A short (~10-minute) game about making sets of cards that add up to square numbers.  Designed with a focus on minimizing unneeded complexity to reduce learning time and remove uninteresting decisions. Player-defined ending leads to emergent gameplay around balancing points per turn/per card with getting points on the board and forcing the game to end.

Designed by Albert Luckas for CSG-1003 at the University of Tulsa in fall '24.