At a convention (probably 20+ years ago), someone ran a game of Haggle. Now in Haggle (as published in A Gamut of Games) the moderator creates a rules-set and gives each player an envelope with ~10 pieces of paper (maybe two each of five colors) and two rules, such as "You score 3 points for each red" and "A submission that gives more than seven pieces of paper results in a score of zero." Everyone runs around for a few hours trading paper and rules (or glimpses of rules) and then at a certain point submits their entry (some number of pieces of paper) and then best score (which may be the highest, but maybe not! Depends on the rules!) wins.
Anyway, this convention was supposed to have a Haggle-like game called "The Galactic Orchestra of Pnoob," (rhymes with "newb") which is basically a themed Haggle. (Each of you is a composer from a different planet who has been abducted to the planet of Pnoob to compose an orchestra, but you only have a brief amount of time to figure out which Pnobian instruments work well together...."
Famed illustrator (and all around wonderful person) Doris Matthäus was at the convention and graciously drew illustrations for the various instruments. I mentioned this to a local composer earlier, and then decided to see if I could find find some of them .... and, here's a scan, in case you want to use them for a haggle game!
The Instruments are:
- Pnoobian Ear Whistle
- Oort Resonator Drones
- Pnooble Horn
- Snorkbonium
- Vaangian Sinehius Bug
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