The Spoon Game
So for some insane reason, on the way home from class, my mind was occupied with the idea of turning the Spoon Theory of Chronic Disease (pdf warning) into a board game. At rolled the Spoon Dice to discover how many spoons you had that day, and tried to get through one day of work and enough chores to keep going. You'd pick a card that modified the day for good or bad*. You could borrow against tomorrow's spoons, but had to roll the 3-2-1 die (3 1s, 2 2s, 1 3) to discover the 'exchange rate' - and this happened AFTER you declared how many you were going to borrow.

If you had less than 4 spoons for a day you had to take a Sick Day. Too many sick days and you rolled to either be fired or go to part time work; either way you had to apply for benefits, which had its own spoon cost...

I don't think it would be an especially FUN game, but I imagine it could be very educational.


*Possible cards:
Twin spoons - you find a little extra energy and get one extra spoon for today!
Broken spoon - everything takes more work than you expected, lose one spoon
Good day - two actions of your choice cost 1 spoon less (minimum cost 0 spoons)
Unhelpful advice - a family member or government worker tells you that you should "just try harder." Lose half your spoons for today.