Fate and Fortune -
An Accessible Push-Your-Luck Game
Fate and Fortune is a push-your-luck game with a pirate theme. You play as pirates dividing up the cursed gold coins of the Kraken.
It is a game for the whole family, designed for blind, low-vision, and sighted players to play together.
Game Details: 2-6 Players | Ages 8+ | 20-30 minutes
After a very successful playtesting phase the game is currently in manufacturing.
Coming soon.
About Fate and Fortune
It's easy to learn, fast to setup, and plays in 20-30 minutes.
Fate and Fortune is a light weight game for the entire family. Up to 6 pirates are tempted to divide up the Kraken's cursed treasure, trying to leave the table with the most loot. They can even bet on the misfortunes of their rivals.
Six sighted players enjoying an early playtest of Fate and Fortune.
How to Play
Each player has a game board with slots at the top for 6 gold coins, and smaller slots at the bottom to keep track of their score.
You select 6 coins per round, for 6 rounds. Each turn you flip over 2 coins to reveal a point value on the back side. As the rounds progress you must decide if you risk to flip over more coins for more points, or bank the points you have. But be warned - if you have two crossbones coins you BUST and lose all the points for that round.
There is also a unique optional bet when your opponent decides to push their luck. You can bet that they will BUST and possibly win a double or nothing bet.
Learn the Rules:
What's in the Box?
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1 Magnetic Box
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6 Player Game Boards
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6 Score Tokens
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51 Gold Coins
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1 Black Velvet Coin Bag
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1 Tactile Dice
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1 Rule Book
Tactile dual layer player game board.
Designed for Blind, Low Vision, & Sighted Players
All of the game components for Fate & Fortune were designed with blind players in mind.
Two low vision players trying Fate and Fortune at the National Federation of the Blind national conference.
The game boards are dual layer creating slots for the coins and score token to rest in. We play tested these to make sure the coins and tokens would stay in place as hands move across to check their status.
A blind player check her score on the tactile dual layer game board.
The coins are tactile on each side. The face of the coin is an embedded star from a compass, and there are dimensional lines across the back sides representing point values: 1 line = 1 point; 2 lines = 2 points; 3 line = 3 points. There are also coins with raised pirate crossbones forming an "X" on the back.
The tactile and high contrast coins showing the point lines and crossbones.
The scoring token mimics the coins in a smaller version.
Even the coin bag has an embroidered skull face which can be felt against the black velvet.
Coin bag with gold embroidery.
These are all examples of Equal-Play Game Design™.