Plus and Minus

by David Easton

Overview

Plus and Minus is a board game based on the board game from the mid-1900s of the same name. It is based on strategically playing cards to move your players along the board to try and gain the highest score.

This version supports 4 human or computer players. The computer players take some skill to beat.

Screenshot

Screenshot

Rules

Objective

Each player has a board and four pieces.
The object is to move the four pieces from 0 at the top of the board to 25.

Playing

On a turn each player must:

  1. Select a player piece to move.
  2. Play a card from their hand.

The number on the card played is added to the number of the top card (i.e. the card that was played by the previous player) to give the number of spaces that the piece will move.

Change history

Version 0.5 (09 May 2005)

Version 0.4 (03 May 2005)

Version 0.3 (31 Dec 2004)

Download

Plus & Minus is available either as a Starkit or a windows executable version.

Starkits are cross-platform and my run on at least 16 platforms, including Window, MacOS and Linux, if the single file Tclkit is installed

Starkit Version

Download:plusminus.kit
Platforms:Any platform running Tclkit 8.4+
File Size:112 Kb
License:Free

Windows executable

Download:plusminus.exe
Platforms:Windows XP, 2000, NT, 98, 95
File Size:1043 Kb
License:Free

Install

Copy the file

Uninstall

Remove the file

Links

This page is maintained by:
David Easton