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Nexus PDF

$4.00

Nexus is a simple abstract game of building networks and capturing them, for 2 to 4 players. The hitch is that the more you complete for a network, the less it’s worth!

This is the mostly-original version of Nexus, from Cheapass Games, with PDF files for cards and rules.

As with all our print-and-play files, the price for this product is strictly optional. You may also download it for free using the first link below.

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Nexus is a simple abstract game of building networks and capturing them, for 2 to 4 players. The hitch is that the more you complete for a network, the less it’s worth!

This is the mostly-original version of Nexus, from Cheapass Games, with PDF files for cards and rules.

As with all our print-and-play files, the price for this product is strictly optional. You may also download it for free using the first link below.

Nexus is a simple abstract game of building networks and capturing them, for 2 to 4 players. The hitch is that the more you complete for a network, the less it’s worth!

This is the mostly-original version of Nexus, from Cheapass Games, with PDF files for cards and rules.

As with all our print-and-play files, the price for this product is strictly optional. You may also download it for free using the first link below.

Nexus was the first in a series of Hip Pocket Card Games, from Cheapass Games, #959.

  • Release Year: 2001

  • Game Type: Abstract Card Game

  • Designer: James Ernest

  • Players: 2 to 4

  • Playing Time: 30 Minutes

  • Components to Print: Cards, Rules

  • You Also Need: About 20 counters for each player

Nexus was the first game in the successful Hip Pocket Games series, a line of abstract card games that were even cheaper than Cheapass Games, most of them at $4.

Nexus is a simple puzzle game, with cards depicting various collections of nodes and connecting lines. Players take turns playing cards and capturing nodes, trying to control the most valuable nexuses by the end of the game. (Yes, the plural of nexus is nexuses.)

Most of the Hip Pocket Games were designed to fill in a tiny corner of a press sheet, because Cheapass Games never wasted a square inch of paper. In fact, the cards for Nexus were created and printed before the game was designed! James figured he could make some set of rules for these cards, and if not, they could just go into the trash.

And yes, sometimes he tried this trick and failed. Like when he made a DNA deck with four different cards because there was only space for four cards. Those cards are in the trash now. But Nexus actually worked, and even made it into the GAMES 100!

Links:

  • Print-and-Play PDF package (Zip)

  • How to Make Cards Video

  • How to Make Tile Cards Video

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