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

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.

• Only 1 piece may occupy any one space.
• A piece may not move backwards beyond 0.
• A piece moving beyond 25 will go bust and be placed onto 0.

Change history

Version 0.5 (09 May 2005)

• Score window displays a maximum of 12 previous rounds.
• Reduced size of playing area from 660x662 to 600x600.

Version 0.4 (03 May 2005)

• Added arrows to show whose turn it is.
• Players take it in turn to start a round.
• Score windows displays a maximum of 8 previous rounds - fixes bug where window could grow so large that the next button was not visible (reported by Eric Amundsen)
• Fixed bug in rules that could lead to game locking up with no moves possible

Version 0.3 (31 Dec 2004)

• First public release.

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

Windows executable

Install

Copy the file

Uninstall

Remove the file

Links

• Tcl/Tk Resources
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