A Bard Day's Night

You and your fellow tight-belted minstrels meet at the Hungry Troubadour Tavern. There is precious little coin to be found here, but there are vegetables galore to fill your empty bellies if you sing for your supper.

A Bard Day’s Night is a 2-4 player card game of bidding, bluffing, and belting out verses. Players compose ballads by putting together verses made of 5 cards. After playing their cards they receive a reward of onions, tomatoes, or cabbages tossed at them! Using that bounty of food, bards bid on the right to perform each part of the verse for the crowded house of tavern-goers. The winners collect those ballad cards, hoping to have the majority of certain symbols by the end of the game. If you play your cards right, they’ll throw you a coin instead of a vegetable!

When playing the game, the bottom of the box also serves as the tavern table, holding extra food cards for those who lose their bids.

Alf Seegert is a Professor of English at the University of Utah, where he teaches courses in video game narratives and fantasy literature. He is also the designer of other fantasy-themed games including Fantastiqa, The Road to Canterbury, and Illumination.

Components:
• 1 Tavern Table (back of
box)
• 4 Minstrel Screens
• Over 100 Ballad, Character, and Food Cards
• 6 Theme Tokens
• 1 Tavern Board
• 1 Pipe Token
• Rulebook

2-Second Sales Pitch:
“A hilarious card game of writing ballads for a tavern full of rowdy adventurers.”

Target Audience:
• Light Gamers
• Fantasy Fans
• Alf Seegert Fans

Specifications:
•2-4 Players
•45 Minutes
•Ages 14+