"Cricket mini gaming?" Topic

Just curios if anyone had an incling for this. I was trying to learn the game from coworkers and did a little sample game in miniature in order to "get the feel for it".

Wasn't sure if poeple did many sport type mini games or not – was just curious with all the fantasy football/cricket leagues etc.

Regards

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They also had a rugby game.

Somewhere there is a little on-line game of Cricket

20 overs per side, most of the Bbig teams and different star players, my so has it on his PC quite a bit

EM4 sell 'Cricket Dice', which is a little (non-miniatures)game in itself. There are various other Subbuteo cricket-alike games. If nothing else, these would give you some miniatures to use. Swing those googlies well!

Who makes 28mm crickets and grasshoppers?

CC

Try Pig Tickler a more gentlemanly game.

The game is pretty simple. Each player has a unicycle lancer. Also used are a unicycle lancer referee, a "stoker", a mechanical pig, and the PORC (Porcine Omni-directional Randomizing Calculator). The winner is the player whose lancer scores 5 "rumps" (hits). Each turn a player moves his lancer in an attempt to get a hit on the pig. The lancer may move any distance in a straight line. Any time the lancer wants to turn, he has to make a die roll. If it fails, his lancer stops moving. If it succeeds, the lancer can continue to move. The lancer cannot run into other lancers, the pig, or the referee (which can be moved into the path of the current player's lancer once per turn). Once the lancer figure touches the pig, dice are rolled and a table gives the result. After the lancer stops moving, the player must move the pig. After that, he may move the stoker (a native with a bucket of coal or a shovel) either to attack another player or to move the pig. Tables are also checked any time a pig moves against or through a lancer, and when the stoker attacks a lancer.

…………….Doug :)

For real fantasy football, you want to play Blood Bowl :)

There are various ways of playing cricket "indoors"

The Classic is "Owzatt" which comprised a pair of hexagonal rods about an inch long. On scored runs, 0,1,2,4,6,"owzatt"

If you got "owzatt" you went to the other bar and rolled it to get things like "bowled, caught, stumped, run out, not out, no ball"

There was also the variant related to the alphabet – each letter was given a value "e" would be a dot ball, "h" might be a 4, "g" bowled etc. The idea was to open a book at any page and convert the text to the progress of the match.

Both variants are/were excellent training for completing a score book correctly.

Ah very nice.

To nevals: omg, I had no idea….

At one point I was considering hosting a game where the Brits are playing a match in India somewhere and a security force has to keep the local bad guys away long enough for the game to complete – else 5 days of the match are wasted if any player is wounded or killed.

For the "cup" you know…..

I have a copy of the miniatures-based board game "Wicketz" link and I rather like it. It includes figures for batsmen, bowler fielders and even umpires. Here's a Boardgamegeek page for it: link

Dave