Paper soccer — bounce the ball to goal
A ball moves one step at a time along the lines of a grid, and every line drawn stays. When the ball lands where lines already meet, it bounces and the same player moves again. The pitch fills with the history of the game.
From Paper soccer, a pen-and-paper game from Poland.
What it shows a designer
Every line drawn changes what can be drawn next, and old moves create new ones through bouncing. It shows how a game's history can live on the board and become its strategy.
Credits
- Made by
- Traditional, best known in Poland
- This version
- A 10 by 8 field; a trapped player loses
- Sources
- paper.soccer/rules/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_soccer
What you need
- squared paper
- a pen
How to play
- The pitch. On squared paper mark a field 10 squares long and 8 wide, with a goal two squares wide in the middle of each short side. The ball starts at the centre point.
- A move. Draw a line from the ball to any of the eight points around it, along a square's side or across its diagonal. The ball is now there.
- Limits. No line may be drawn twice, and none may run along the edge of the pitch. The ball leaves the pitch only through a goal.
- Bounce. If the ball lands on a point that already has a line, or on the edge, the same player moves again.
- Win. Get the ball into the other player's goal. An own goal loses. A player who cannot move loses.
After playing, talk about
- When did you set up a chain of bounces?
- How did the old lines change where you could go?
- Did the edges help or hurt?
Its blocks
How its blocks were checked against BoardGameGeek
- Paper soccer: partly checkable, nothing against it. drawing the map: not checkable. direct confrontation: not checkable. mostly skill: not checkable. full information: not checkable. take turns: not checkable.
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