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The only game in which you’re allowed to cut the paper into pieces, especially when you are losing. A One Paper Game for 2–9 players.

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“ What a cutting-edge game! ”
★★★★★
“ The second game about rocks, papers and scissors — and already a classic ”
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“ This game cuts right through the crowd with its innovative mechanics and makes the efforts of its competition look paper-thin ”
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What's the idea?

Click here to unfold.

What do I need?

Three steps:

  1. Generate a random board below and print it.
  2. Read the rules (one page).
  3. Grab some pens, scissors and friends.

Concerned about ink? Only page 1, 3 and 4 of the rulebook are relevant for the base game. You can also generate “ink friendly” boards.

Tip for Teaching? Explain the first page, immediately start playing! Simply place the node list on the table, so players can look up what something does whilst playing.

Material

Pick your desired settings and press the button! (A new page will open.) When in doubt, just use the defaults for your first game(s).

Turns the material mostly grayscale. The same seed (max. 20 characters) will always produce exactly the same board. Everyone gets the same Mission, to simplify learning and teaching the game.

Expansions

(Click to fold.)

Not working? Or unsure what to do? The "Download" button above has PDFs I already made for you! Pick any one of those.

Tip for Cleanup? When done, you should have a bunch of puzzle pieces ( = all pieces of paper you cut off). Here’s the challenge: try to fit them back together to recreate the original paper! Sounds easier than it is :)

Hire me

Are you a games publisher? I'm always open to inquiries about publishing one of my games.

Need a special board game or video game? Maybe for a birthday, school or another purpose?

Contact me! You can ask me anything—I don't bite! In fact, I've never bitten anyone.

If unsure, visit my portfolio to learn more about my work. You can also contact me through there, as I'm a registered freelance artist in the Netherlands.

Support

Enjoyed my work (or not)? Let me know what you think! Mail me at [email protected] with any feedback.

That's already a great way to support me.

Alternatives would be to buy my paid work (a win-win situation!). Or to donate through the most popular channels.

Credits

Fonts? SciFly, created by Tomi Haaparanta.

Check out my other (board)games. Support me if you enjoy my work!

I wrote two detailed articles about the development of this game:

In action!

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Two pictures of the game "in action". Some people in my play groups insist on using these way too complex icons, like a sheep or stick figure—I recommend just using simple shapes in your games. The bottom board is from an older version of the game, but the sunlight in the picture was really nice, so I decided to keep it on this page.