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New RallyBird Baseball ScorePage

Download the 2023 RallyBird Baseball scorepage pdf here.

Hello! It’s June, 2023! Baseball is well underway. The RallyBird Baseball Board Game is available and selling! MLB’s rule changes this year has cut game time by 41 minutes! How do you feel about it? So far I like it, as I think the time that crept in was not essential to the game (bloat), and returns it to more of a classic game flow. I also like that it arguably can increase the appeal of baseball to casual viewers.

I have conjured up a new, improved RallyBird Baseball scoresheet, which you can view and download below. Over time I’ll post some of my own filled-out scoresheets. My idea is that for those who want to try it, this scorepad can increase the enjoyment of the game, and increase rivalry and provide data for lively discussion (including but not limited to chatter, gloating and bragging). It also could lead to the fun of trying different tactics and seeing, over time, how they play out. There’s plenty of space for you to name the players if you wish.

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I’ll look into including one of these double-sided pages in future releases of the RallyBird Baseball Board Game. I pause, however, because I wonder if I should include a small section in the rules that shows how to fill it out. Redoing the rules would be a huge project. Or maybe I should include a copy of a score page of a game I myself played out… What do you think?

#RallyBird #Baseball #BoardGame Learning Exercise A & B

Here are two scenarios that aim to help new owners of the RallyByrd Baseball Board Game learn the game in a fun way.

Here are two scenarios that aim to help new owners of the RallyByrd Baseball Board Game learn the game in a fun way. They’re both solitaire predicaments, not full sessions. The game is easy, but people bring different levels of board game experience.

These scenarios both start with a runner on first base and one Out.

In the first scenario, the learner plays offense, in the other, defense. The details reduce some of the regular options to make it easier on rules learning. They also make the situation a little trickier.

You can download the PDF for free. I might create a couple more scenarios.

By the way, new editions spell RallyBird as RallyByrd. It’s the same game.

Here are some non-Amazon places you can purchase the RallyByrd Baseball Board Games game, signed and numbered, as supplies last: here and here.

Unofficial #Solitaire #Rules for the #RallyBird #BaseBall #BoardGame

Here’s a way to play RallyBird Baseball solitaire. It’s unofficial. The introduction explains why. Here’s a screenshot of it, below. Or you can download the PDF and read it there.

I designed the game with the social electricity and ferment of two live players in mind. Again and again, I made design choices intended to help two people want to take the game off the shelf and, without rules barriers, sit down and compete socially. The excitement, aggravation, worry, and second-guessing of each other I think is essential. Mind-saber clashes against mind-saber to make sparks. One face shows triumph, the other playful horror. That’s a memorable experience, and my idea of fun.

The panorama of baseball provides the ballad for the clash of wit and chance.

In RallyBird (aka RallyByrd), all choices have a chance of success or failure. It’s a matter of degree. When play testing years ago, I tried a random method of choosing offense or defense, and making decisions by deliberate choice for the other. I wanted to test the game’s ability to sustain conscious purpose. I proved to myself that conscious decisions, over time, won over random.

We all might want or need to play solitaire sometimes. I’m sympathetic. Do these unofficial charts work? I don’t know. They required a sizable random spirit to forestall predictability. It needs play testing proof in all respects. It might remain unofficial forever.

These charts do provide randomness. There’s a tension within them of purpose versus random. In addition, I don’t know if the mechanic of the charts works for enjoyment. What do you think? Again, the introduction provides my further thoughts on this.

By the way, here are some non-Amazon places you can purchase the game, signed and numbered, as supplies last: here and here.

Spring is Coming! and #RallyBird Baseball Rules PDF Link

Spring is coming. Where I live there are no new leaves, but aye, buds on some of the trees. The quince bulbs are insistently pink even as it rains and glooms. Soon there will appear a little white orb in the sky, one scored by the looping helix of red stitching. Take a moment from your snow shoveling to think of the accidental genius of that stitching, providing just enough irritation against air travel for the gangly pitcher to impart sensible “english”…

I’ve started another phase of my enterprise, and another and another. Imagine a rolled-up sleeves guy with a magazine-proletarian wrench pulling all he can muster against the nut of a phantasmagorical wheel. Everything takes time, but the plan is to offer you a quicker, easier, and cheaper way to purchase RallyBird Baseball. What a mogul I am! I could grow a twirl-able mustache, but then I’d be just another posturing hipster instead of Truly Special (which is now plain).

Click here to download the current rules PDF –including the friendly setup guide.

While I wait I’m investigating the further steps for the RallyBird Baseball Board Game. Fear not! That horrible process lies safely below the horizon (flat or round?–Controversial). Spring is coming. I reloaded the bird feeder and immediately fat, round birds started whacking at it with their ax-beaks. Whack, whack!

Thanks for your patience.

Update: Click here to see the game for sale on Amazon.com (and eligible for free shipping for Amazon Prime members).