Stay at home to prevent the epidemic, beware of the "swollen virus" in your heart! Ma Wenya teaches you how to play the "Happy Slim" board game to easily heal and lose weight

Because of home quarantine, many people are stuck at home all day, whether they are staring at their phones or busy chasing TV series. Is there less interaction between family members? Are you also afraid of being infected with the "swelling virus"?

This happy slimming board game can be played by 2-4 people (small families with less than 5 people can play it safely indoors XD), and you can also use the card function to force yourself and your opponent to get up and exercise. I believe it can add a bit of fun to the boring days of epidemic prevention!

Why did you want to publish the Happy Slim Board Game?

There is only one reason - I want to convey the concept of Happy Slim in a more relaxed way; happiness is a connection between people. The initial starting point of Happy Slim is a dining table. Many friends who are worried about losing weight often have a conflicting relationship with food. In the book Happy Slim, many issues related to psychological levels and behavioral changes are discussed.

However, some readers told me that when they wanted to share this book with friends in need, some obstacles arose. To be frank, these obstacles were psychological defenses. Many people don’t like reading, but everyone loves playing games. Why not turn Happy Slimming into a board game? Just a simple idea gave birth to the board game Happy Slim!

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Happy Slim Board Game

As the former proprietress of a board game store, I love seeing everyone gather together and laugh over board games. Is there anything happier than having family and friends get together?

When discussing with the designer at the beginning, the most important thing is not to degenerate into preaching. A game that is too much like a teaching aid will lose some of the fun of spoofs. So we did the opposite. Instead of teaching everyone how to make themselves thinner, we might as well make other players fatter at the same time!

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Various cards that frame others and make them fat

In order to take into account both physical and mental health, in addition to being eliminated when the fat exceeds the limit, we have designed two values: health and mood. This means that when losing weight, we must also take into account the balance of body and mind. This is also the most critical message in the concept of Happy Slim.

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The game board has mood, health, and fat values

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When you get this card, you have to stand up and do aerobics!

Gameplay:

1. Every time it is your turn, you need to increase one grid of fat (because you need to eat every round)

2. Play the cards in your hand and execute the effects (no limit on the number of cards)

3. Check your own attribute card:

Mood and health values ​​are reset to 0

Fat above 10 points

As long as one of the above is met, you will be eliminated!

4. Add 3 cards to your hand and replace the next player

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Gameplay

Players use various strategies in the game to reduce their own fat, avoid the loss of health and mood, find ways to increase the opponent's fat, or restore their health or mood to zero, and become the final winner. Just like most board games, everyone spends a happy time by framing each other and talking nonsense.

It is worth mentioning that this game has added character cards, and players can draw their own characters to represent different animals. The starting point of this design is that personality greatly affects people's behavior in losing weight. In order to highlight that weight loss methods should vary from person to person, the various animals in the game design will affect the function of the cards due to their individual characteristics.

For example, a zebra that lives in a group cannot use "I don't want it" to refuse a social card function; while a hippopotamus that is experienced in weight loss can draw an extra card every turn when drawing cards.

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Fun and cute character cards

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The super powerful card "I don't want it" can cancel the effect of the card or remove your own equipment or environment cards

After reading this, do you also want to play this board game? From the perspective of an endocrinologist, reducing stress hormones through games and lowering the chances of emotional eating and situational eating are also critical factors in the weight loss process! I hope that every friend who wants to be lighter can lose weight more happily with the company of board games and good books. Let’s lose weight happily together!

This article is from the limited edition mobile game "Happy Slim: No Dieting, No Gaining Weight, 23 Healing Weight Loss Dialogues Starting from the Heart" by CommonWealth Magazine