Minesweeper Draft

How to Play

Lay out 90 cards in a 9-by-10 grid. The outer ring and middle two cards start face up, and all other cards begin face down.

Players snake draft. Every time a card is picked, all adjacent face down cards are flipped faceup (like the game Minesweeper). After 10 picks per player, discard the remainder and lay down a new grid.

Repeat a total of four times for a 40-card draft pool, alternating starting player.

Advantages

The face-up information, combined with the way each pick reveals more information, allows the table-talk and discussion of other perfect-info formats, while preserving a sense of surprise. The minigame of controlling new information might also appeal.

Variations

The size of the grids can be tailored for the size of the Cube and the number of players. For a 2-player variant, try 4 grids of 8x5.