Lego Game!

Guys! I made up my own game, completely from scratch! No Pinterest, no Googling "how on earth am I going to entertain a seven year old for another 5 days without being able to go outside (though that happened as well)," no begging others for ideas- 100% me just standing in the middle of my room, looking through drawers, and grabbing/putting away random supplies until I had come up with a decent game and concrete rules. WINNER.

The Lego Game (That's Still in Need of a Name)!
2 or more players

Supplies:
-Crapload of legos. Yes, that's a technical measurement, where did you go to school?
-Dice
-Some way of coming up with a "random" number

1. My method for coming up with a random number was the M*A*S*H spiral trick. One person draws a spiral on a sheet of paper, and the other says when to stop drawing. When you stop, draw a straight line from the beginning to the end of the spiral. The number of times the lines intersect is your "random" number. (Random is in quotes because I'm pretty sure my old stats teacher would just die on the spot if she saw me using the word "random" in that context.) Regardless of your method, that should be step one!

2. Player 1 rolls the dice, and collects that number of legos from the pile. Each player does the same. Repeat this process to equal the "random" number you chose- we had one game where we each rolled twelve times, and another where we each rolled twice.

3. Make something out of your legos!

Some tips:

--> It's a good idea to have a general idea of what you want to build before you start digging through the pile, of course.

--> ...but make sure it's a pretty flexible idea. My first attempt was "tree." That way, I could just make a small brown base, and then start grabbing as many green as I could. So if I ended up rolling a 1 every single turn, I'd still have a passable end product!

--> Decide beforehand what you are going to count as "one" lego. I followed the rules very strictly myself, but let Hakan get away with a lot- he found a previously-built airplane in the pile and wanted to use it.

Those two photos are from our first attempt. The next round, we had only two turns each!

a zombie...

...and a ghost! Apparently we had an unspoken theme going on!