Race To Market!!

Due to international trade and green houses the vast majority of fruit and vegetables are available year round so the average person has no knowledge of when these fruits and vegetables are available locally. We have been tasked with creating a game that teaches players when fruits and vegetables are available locally (within Ontario).

We decided to go with a card game as it seemed the most capable of handling the multitude of different fruits and vegetables that are grown within Ontario. We wanted to make the players remember the months in which certain fruits and vegetables are available within Ontario. We wondered how best to do this and decided that the best way would be to make the game fast paced in some way. So that the players would find it in their best interest to memorize when these vegetables and fruits were available. The team decided to make the game about matching the produce to the months in which they are available with a time limit which would drive the players to memorize when vegetables and fruits are available so as to make themselves more  proficient at the game. 

Design wise, we wanted to keep to a simple layout for the card design so as to not take away from the focus on the matching aspect of the game. We wanted players to recognize right away the things depicted on the cards so we decided to go with a white background and a solitary image of the fruit or vegetable in the center with its corresponding name underneath. The design is the same for the months only that they just a say a month, the months run from May to December as the fruits and vegetables we have chosen for the game are available within those months. 

Hopefully this game teaches players when Ontario produce is available fresh and bring recognition to the farming industry within Ontario. 

Game Pieces:

• 1 x Produce table
• 1 x Produce/Month card deck (60 cards)

Set Up:

1.         Shuffle the deck
2.          Deal out 5 cards to each player
3.          Place the rest of the cards face down in the center of the four players and spread them out to make a pile
4.          A timer is set for 5 minutes, or shorter for a higher difficulty.                                                                                         

-          Game Play

•      There are no turns; all players begin at the same time the timer is started.
•           Players must match the cards of the fruits and vegetables to the cards of the months of which these fruits and vegetables are available.
•           A fruit or vegetable card can only be matched to one month card and vice versa.
•           When a match is made, those cards are placed in front of that player face up.
•          A player may take a card from the pile and place it in their hand at any time
•           A player may also discard a card at any time but must then draw two cards.
•           The goal is to match all the cards in your hand before the timer runs out.