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Nice Games Jam: "The Great Floral Heist"

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Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast!
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Aug 20, 2026
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Summary

From a floral prompt, a daring caper blossoms. This week your Nice Hosts answer the question: How many flowers to you have to eat to pull off a heist? Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure - Board Game Geek Clue: The Great Museum Caper - Board Game Geek The game board for Clue: The Great Museum Caper Our spreadsheet of Flowers, Powers, and Barriers. Prompt Create a game about flowers. The flowers may give you powers (regular or super) or may become animated when they are in full bloom. An example of a regular power is power of attorney or a driver's license and example of a superpower is invisibility. Game type Tabletop game Materials Game board Thief meeples Barrier cards Flower tokens Flower combination legend Flower box containers Ability tracker "a one-to-one scale replica of a particularly rare flower completely made of precious metals and gems" Setup Lay out the board Place the "one-to-one scale replica of a particularly rare flower completely made of precious metals and gems" in the center chamber Distribute flower tokens Shuffle flower tokens in a bag Add flower tokens to flower boxes without looking at them Place the boxes on the marked spaces on the board Distribute the remaining flower tokens around the flower patches marked on the board Place barriers Shuffle barrier cards For each marked space on the board, draw a barrier card and place it on the space Player setup Choose a thief meeple Take a flower combination legend Take an ability tracker Rules Players are thieves after the same jeweled flower in the center of the board Players must gather different flowers to give them the ability to get through the board/maze Goal is to get through to the center of the maze-like building first Players navigate to get the different flowers Combinations of flowers give you…