You're associate salesgnomes at Lord Oscacomp's Adventuring Outfitters and Item Emporium (or, as it's more commonly known, Oscacomp's Item Shop). Your job is to sell, sell, sell!
Play adjectives in grammatical order to talk up the item for sale until you literally can't talk it up anymore, and the last gnome to speak gets the commission.
Grammatical order? Yes indeed! Lord Oscacomp holds his employees to high standards. This is a classy establishment, he likes to say. Don't worry, your employee handbook has sorted all approved adjectives into eight ranks. All you have to do is use an adjective of a higher rank than the last one, and you're safe.
Employee Training How to Play
Start by dealing out 5 adjectives and 3 special cards to each player. Then flip over an item card to start the round.
On your turn, you play an adjective from your hand to the left of the other cards in play. It has to be a higher rank than the leftmost card.
Read aloud the entire item description. This is very important.
If you don't have a card of higher rank, you might be able to play a special card instead. There are a bunch of different types of specials, but as an example, the AND card lets you play a second adjective of the same rank as one already on the board.
If you can't play at all, the round is over. The last person who played a card wins the round and gets 1 Osca-buck* per adjective.
First person to 20 Osca-bucks wins.
(There's a few more rules, like Taking Inventory and the Nonsense Challenge, but this is almost all the employee training you need.)
* Osca-bucks have no cash value. They are redeemable for gold at the end of your shift, but of course the threshhold for payouts is 20 Osca-bucks.
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This game started as an entry in an Eggplant Show gamejam. Thanks for the inspiration, feedback, and encouragament!
Thanks to all the playtesters: Andy, Brad, Bridger, Dad, Deb, Evan, Jonah, Kevin, Kyle, Maddie, Michael, Mom, Nessa, Nessa's gaming group, Ryan, Tiffany, Sarah, Tim, and all the folks at PIGSquad events whose names I didn't catch.