Cards for humanity

How to make a point

Xizi has been working hard to improve the four-player board game and plans to take it to Dice Con in late October, an annual board game convention in Beijing. She's looking for board game publishers to bring the game to market.

The Choice of Transferred Students has different characters: three transferred students, a school principal, several teachers and two security staff members.

One player is the judge of the game, and three others play the roles of the students, who are the bully, the victim and the bystander respectively.

The three players have to draw from scenario cards, which are common school bullying incidents. For example, when a classmate is laughed at because he has a low score, or when someone tries to force a player to help him cheat in an exam.

They have to discuss how to respond to the scenario and they win points depending on their course of action.

The bully's attacking points, the victim's injury points and the bystander's silence points, and their individual adaptability and learning points will decide the winners and losers of the game.

Xizi has designed some fictional characters based on her own experience. The shrewd Teacher Pink will comfort those who're bullied but never take any resolute action to help them. The bystander is a straight-A student, but likes to avoid conflict with others and may turn a blind eye to bullying as a result.

There are different strategy cards for players to use, for instance, to be confident about one's appearance, or to try and make the bully sympathize with their victim.