Remember that old wallpaper we used to have? In that one room? With the funky colors and the weird starburst patterns? Or like disco flower patterns or something?

That Old Wallpaper, that’s exactly what you’re going to do. Compete to get scraps of wallpaper, arranging them on a wall of your own, and put together that old wallpaper just like you remembered it.

But memory’s a tricky thing.

And no two people remember things exactly the same way.

So get your memories in order, grab all the tiles you can, and try to piece it all together.

COMPONENTS

  • 100 Wallpaper Tiles

  • 56 Hazy Memories Tiles

  • 4 Starter Cards

  • Storage Locations Frame

  • 16 Storage Location tokens

  • Pad of score sheets

Tile-laying game with unique tile-choosing mechanism

2-4 players

Ages 10 and up

30 minutes

 

How to Play

Watch the video below or scroll to see components.

 
 
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CHOOSING WALLPAPER TILES

In each round, players will compete to take the tile(s) from one of the storage locations on the table. Secretly choose one location, and put that token in your hand, then all players will reveal which storage location they’ve chosen.

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But here’s the thing:

You can only take the tile(s) from a location if you’re the only player who picked that location.

If so, take the tile(s) in that location.

Unchosen locations, or locations chosen by two or more players will get an additional tile placed on them, making them more valuable in the next round.

If you picked the same location as another player, take a Hazy Memories tile, which only has one piece of the pattern.

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PLACING WALLPAPER TILES

When you get Wallpaper tiles, you’ll place them into your own Wall in front of you, making patterns by pairing them with matching color shapes: 

Orange sunshiney things next to orange sunshiney things

Green flowery things next to green flowery things.

Blue starry-looking things next to blue starry-looking things.

Pink eyebally things next to pink eyebally things.

Gold is wild and matches every shape it’s placed next to.

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SCORING YOUR WALL

At the end of the game, finish off the edges of your wallpaper with the Hazy Memory tiles you got.

You’ll only score for completed shapes, and only for each set of big shape/little shape you have.

PEOPLE LOVE STUFF LIKE

• Cool funky art and weird theme!
• Trying to outthink their opponents by choosing tiles they think no one else will!
• Getting unexpectedly denied!
• Figuring out the puzzle of putting together the best arrangement!
• Looking at how cool their completed wall looks!