Macbeth
BOARD GAME
ASSIGNMENT
• Work alone, with a partner people to create an original board
style game that retells the story.
• The game must show deep understanding of
Macbeth/Shakespeare.
• You will be provided one six-sided die.
• You may use the play, your notes, memory, and imagination.
• You must display understanding of the narrative plot structure.
• Decorate board with a title, symbols and pictures.
• Create symbolic game pieces.
• Make a game people will want to play!
• Be sure to make the game spaces large.
• Do not make a lot of spaces.
• Make the game easy to understand, simple to play and win.
Someone with little to no Shakespearean knowledge will not
be confused by the game. In fact, they will enjoy and learn
while playing.
• You will need to make brief directions (rules of play).
• You may make game cards, move back or forward spaces,
lose a turn spaces, etc.
• The game’s design/format is up to you.
• You may copy an existing layout (Candyland, Snakes and
Ladders, etc.) or make up an entirely original design.
•
•
•
•
•
•
QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF AS YOU MAKE THE GAME
Are your game pieces symbolic?
Are your rules on the back of the game? (if so WRONG!)
Are the rules crystal clear to understand?
Who goes first? How do you decide who goes first? (Explain in
the rules)
If you land on a space that tells you to do something and it
sends you to another space is your turn over or do you do
what that new space says? (Explain this clearly in the rules)
How do you win? Land on the winning space with the exact
number? If so, what if you roll over the number needed?
(Explain in the rules)