Do you have any issues teaching people about racial and cultural diversity in Singapore? Time Crunch! is designed to be a 20-minutes strategic racial harmony board game, where players can learn how to collaborate with one another effectively, as they play through this educational, yet exciting board game.

What is Time Crunch?

Racial Harmony event will be happening in a few hours time and your team has been tasked to deliver cultural artefacts to various exhibitions in Singapore.

You will be playing as an events team member, where you will have to collect various cultural artefacts from the centre hub (known as Mile 0), and deliver these artefacts to 3 other locations.

(Up to) 3 players will have to work hand-in-hand to deliver these artefacts to the locations, where they will meet various challenges along the way.

Now, the only way to succeed is for everyone to collaborate and work together, with the hope of completing the mission before the game timer ends.  Will you and your fellow event team members be able to succeed?

Fun and Engaging Gameplay

Every move you make in this game matters! Plan your moves wisely with your teammates, so you can make use of the actions available to you to its full potential!

Communication Is Key

Communication is the key to success in this game (and in life as well!), only by working together as a team, players can achieve their goal and win the game.

Perfect Game For Starters

Time Crunch! is the perfect game for team cohesions and can also be the game for you to introduce to your overseas friends, where they can learn about the story behind the different cultural artefacts.

Not only you get to have fun while playing this game, you'll also get to learn as you play. Wow, talk about capturing two birds with one net!

A Game You Shouldn't Miss

Unique Gameplay
The game is never the same every time the player plays the game thanks to the core mechanics, known as the Event Progress Card system.

Strategic Planning and Management
Strategic planning and manage is the key to winning this game. Players will have to discuss among themselves on the strategies they could employ so they could make use of their moves more effectively.

Fast and Effective
A quick and simple approach for acquiring knowledge about Singapore in a short amount of time.

A Game About Skills
Winning the game focuses more on your abilities, decisions, and teamwork, rather than by chance.

A Print-N-Play Game

Time Crunch! is a Print-and-Play board game where you have to simply print out the provided artworks, cut them, and you'll get to play it in no time!

What's Included

1 x Main Board
1 x Playing Cards Area Board
8 x Power Up cards
7 x Progress Event cards
3 x Action Reference cards
6 x Round Tracker tokens
3 x Red Cultural Item tokens
3 x Blue Cultural Item tokens
3 x Green Cultural Item tokens

The following items are not included:
3 x Character pawn

If your printer is running low on ink, fret not! 

There is a low-ink version of the game available to download as well. It's the same amazing game but with only the essentials, so you still can enjoy the game even if your printer is low on ink!

How to play

Credits

Time Crunch! is made by a bunch of game-lover students from MAGES Institute of Excellence
(From top left to right)
Clement Sim, Chong Hon Por, Naing Ye Gaung, Jovis Chen, Ngo Anh Quan

Game was developed by a team of 5 members as part of the Design Fundamentals & Principles Module.