A Quilted Table Top Game

This is a table topper which serves also as a board game.

It is a flat handmade and handquilted 3-layers-quilt (46 x 46 cm / 18,11" x 18,11").

I made this because I so fell in love with antique board games, 
whose patterns resemble quilt patterns so very much!

On this pinterest site you find a collection of the loveliest antique board games you can think of, and more:
https://www.pinterest.de/pin/493073859173691024/

Here are two examples:





I then also invented a set of rules to play a game with my table topper.

If anyone is interested, it's just for fun:

**With a Little Help From My Friends**

A quilted board-game for 2 to 4 players. You need different tokens, one for each player, 10 dice, pens and some notepads. 

Note: It’s very nice to use one dice with a special symbol painted on it instead of a number, so you can use that symbol as a joker and when it comes up you can choose freely a fitting number between 1 and 6.

Before the game starts: Each player writes three quizzical questions and the right answers on one side of three separate pieces of paper and folds them closed, then adds a small sketch on top ( flower, a smiley…) so that it becomes clear who came up with which question. All questions are mixed and put aside then. 

Note: All players should recognize the talents and abilities of the co-players, so that everyone has a good chance to answer a question.

A player shouldn’t be asked his or her own questions (therefore the marks on top of the folded notepads).

Quizzical questions which are used during the game need to be discarded. 

Use new questions each time you play that game.

General Rules:

If not indicated otherwise: He or she follows with his or her token his/her colors spot by spot. Each player moves to the next spot if a certain task is fulfilled by him or her or co-players, or has to stay put or to go back and to wait for the next turn if that could not be achieved. To change from one square to the next you have to fulfill the task that applies to this next square.

Each player selects a circle on the board-quilt to start with.  

To follow the rectangles of a certain color in the first square:

Throw dice - up to seven, it’s your choice -  and move to the next rectangle in your color in the next row if you received any number of the four times table by adding all the numbers which are shown ( a sum that is a 4 or 8 or…)

Move up the rows like that.

However: if you received a number of a four times table which belongs also to the six times table ( a 12 or 24 for example) a decision must be made. Will you proceed or your co-player ( more than two players: on your right hand side)? To decide that, take one of the quizzical questions and ask it, if you receive the right answer, your co-player proceeds, if the answer is wrong, you move on. 

Note: these rules apply only for moving within the first square. If the co-player on your right hand side has already left the first square, you are allowed to proceed freely.

To reach the triangles in the center:

Take 5 dice and try to add up a figure of the five times table. If you can, hop to the first and then to the second triangle counterclockwise.

However, if you happen to throw a number which still fits the four times table of the last square and not the five times table, you are obliged to give your figure to the person who is furthest behind: he or she receives your number and may proceed for one step within the first square.

If two or more co-players are sitting in the first square at the same stage of the game, take up a quiz-question, the one who answers correctly first moves on.

If you have only one co-player within the first square you have to pass on the number automatically to her or him, so that he or she can proceed one step up.

What do you do when you throw a 20 for example, which belongs to the five times and the four times table? You pick up a quizzical question, any co-player still sitting within the first square who knows the right answer first proceeds, if this answer is wrong you do.

To reach the two triangular and diagonal spots in the square at the corner:

Throw a prime number, an indivisible number. Choose up to ten dice for each throw and add the numbers, if it’s a prime number move on to the next spot.

Here are prime-numbers: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 39, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59

To reach the square within the square:

Ask your co-player / the player to your left to tell you his or her birthday. Write it down like that: 13.04.1976 for example. 

You can reach the square if you throw a number which shows the sum of three figures from that date, here for example: 1+9+4=14 or 7+3+6=16 or… Use up to 10 dice. 

To reach the last square at the outer border of this board-quilt you don’t have to do anything at first. Your partner(s) have to do this, when it’s your turn to reach your destination: 

Your/Each co-player /simultaneously/ throws one dice for you, if at least one *six* comes up, you have to fulfill your last task, which is:

Pick a quizzical question, ask a co-player to ask you that question and maybe you know the right answer!  Then you may proceed to your final square!

Congratulations!

Note: in this final stage a joker is not allowed.

If no *six* came up or your answer was wrong, the same procedure starts again when it’s your turn next time (*six* and question).

If that doesn’t work out the second time you have to go back to the second triangle in the middle and move on from there when it’s your turn again (the way as described before).

The game ends when the first person has reached his or her final square, with a little help from friends.

Note: with three or more players it’s fun to proceed, the winner is still involved in the process (asking questions, providing the date of birth, throwing a ‚six‘ possibly…)

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Note: This is already a revised version of rules, but still:

There may be irregularities in the set of rules or in my description, maybe I overlooked something or there may happen surprises I didn’t foresee. For example: more quizzical questions might be needed. Please make your own rules! It’s fun!