The target position can be any (reachable) arrangement of 4 dancers. This can be chosen either by drawing a permutation card off the deck and trying to match it in multiple steps (maybe track with a second quartet of dancers), or by having a separate deck of target cards.
Thinking up a fun method for people to contribute is hard. Here’s a stab: everyone starts with 4 cards in hand. Players take turns (will need a first player token) either revealing a card by putting it on the table (they can’t otherwise communicate private knowledge) or playing a card (and moving the dancers). The goal is to get to the target in the fewest total turns, with every player having contributed at least one card.
Okay, but now I’m just thinking of reinventing Hanabi—you could start with 6 cards, but in order to reveal a card you have to discard a different card. And why stop at one target? It might be fun to try to do multiple targets in a row with the same cards and information, maybe drawing 2 cards after successfully reaching a target, and see how long you can go.
I thought about this a bit.
Alternate idea:
Pure cooperative game with limited communication.
The target position can be any (reachable) arrangement of 4 dancers. This can be chosen either by drawing a permutation card off the deck and trying to match it in multiple steps (maybe track with a second quartet of dancers), or by having a separate deck of target cards.
Thinking up a fun method for people to contribute is hard. Here’s a stab: everyone starts with 4 cards in hand. Players take turns (will need a first player token) either revealing a card by putting it on the table (they can’t otherwise communicate private knowledge) or playing a card (and moving the dancers). The goal is to get to the target in the fewest total turns, with every player having contributed at least one card.
Okay, but now I’m just thinking of reinventing Hanabi—you could start with 6 cards, but in order to reveal a card you have to discard a different card. And why stop at one target? It might be fun to try to do multiple targets in a row with the same cards and information, maybe drawing 2 cards after successfully reaching a target, and see how long you can go.