The Faster Route Game

About

• A TSP board game.
• Simply, get the fastest route from one point to the other with some arrivals to other points.
• For 1 or more players.

Materials

• A wooden A4 canvas with 10 nils on it according to the board sketch below.
• A large thin lace.
• 10 simple paper cards with numbers from 1 to 10.
• A PHP app to help you find the shortest route through simple trial and error, random calculations.
• A png A4 file for printing.
• A raw A4 svg file for editing.

How to Play

1 player

• Shuffle the cards and put them in a list without knowing their numbers.
• Set the fist and last card and place them at the start and end of the card list.
• Open all cards.
• Try to solve the TSP problem (from Start to End through points...) using the lace.
• The first and last card should always stay there. Other cards can change positions to represent the route.

2+ Players

• For more than 1 player each player plays its turn and adds a mark (eg a small colored clip on the lace) at the end of the route.
• The player also writes down the order of her/his cards on a paper.
• The player to find the shortest route (lace comparison) wins the game.

Licence

Copyright 2021 - Theodoros Ploumis, All rights reserved