Adult Board Game Design & Reviews

 
 
 
 
 
Have you ever thought about transforming the game of battleships into a sex game? How would you design it so it included a variety of different foreplay activities and a sexual reward for winning? What color or flavor would you give it to make it a sexy couples game? Apparently a company decided they could make a relationship enhancement product based on the original battleship game. This particular version is for lesbian couples. Let’s take a look.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Note: I discovered this product while doing keyword research to market my own erotic battleships themed game books. I will be discussing my erotic game design ideas while reviewing their product. Hopefully I can restrain my bias. Also note that I have not purchased this particular game and this review is based on their marketing material only. I am not viewing this as a competitor to my game products, but rather as an intriguing design concept.

First, from their marketing material: “The Love Battleship game is based on classic Battleship game rules, so there’s no need to sit and read long sheets of rules!” They aren’t kidding. They provide 16X sheets each with two 10×10 grids labeled 1-10 and A-J. Since you would normally need two sheets per game – one per player, that means it’s playable 8 times with their supplies.

Also, their game actually uses military ships in a sex game design: aircraft carrier, battleship, cruiser, destroyer, submarines. Seriously? Unless you have a fetish for the uniform or warfare, the “flavor” of the game is not particulary sex oriented.

Second, their foreplay element seems to be a deck of 25 Fun Cards. Since the rules are supposedly the same as the classic version, I can only assume these cards are shuffled and selected whenever a ship is sunk. Okay, but only 25 foreplay activities? That seems a little lean. Since there are so few foreplay cards, I highly doubt a foreplay activity is performed for every hit landing on a ship. A sensual kiss might be specified in the rules. Other stripping or drinking elements may also be included for sinking select classes of ship. However, I didn’t see any references to these activities.

There are also 25 activity cards. Again, I am assuming these are sex play activities to be selected and enjoyed by the winner. A few of these cards are presented in the marketing material. Even some of the comments about the product indicate it is very repetitive – fun but not particularly replayable. Also, a lot of massages – maybe too many!

Third, they feature their nice design, packaging and watercolor illustrations. Also, “Probably the only board game specially made for lesbian couples”. Apparently great as a date night game or a cute lesbian couple gift idea. “Board game” is a bit of a stretch since there is no board.

Curious, my initial impression is that they spent more time on the Amazon A+ content than they did for the game itself. Brutal assessment maybe, but check it out yourself. It definitely looks nice and professional. Maybe the pleasuring activities described in their 50 cards makes it worthwhile.

If you’ve purchased this game and want to expand the sexual ideas a bit, check out our Extra Naughty Frisky Foreplay games book with straight, gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and threesome activities each arranged in six intensity levels. There are 36 unique activites per level mapped to the roll of two dice. Roll the dice every time a ship is hit. Increase the intensity level for every ship sunk. Also take a look at our article Seek Hot Sex Naughty Word Search Dirty Talk Foreplay Games for Lesbians. Use the ideas discussed to spice up this game even more. The article also features our lesbian version of the Seek Hot Sex books detailed below.

Oral Sex Hunter

When I first considered designing a sex game based on battleships many years ago, I wanted to keep the primary game concept, but stay well clear of the military theme. The name Love Battleship just doesn’t do it. Even Erotic Battleships is not really appropriate for a sex game. These titles are probably useful marketing keywords though. I wanted players to hunt for sensitive areas to “hit” with pleasure. Instead of ships, I used sexy words like pussy, cock, penis, nipple, clitoris, etc. You could use a variety of clean or dirty words corresponding to the erogenous zones that you want pleasured. Then, when found, adapt the pleasuring to suit the body part targeted for stimulation.

Oral pleasuring provides the most versatile stimulation techniques for both men and women (kissed, licked, sucked, tongued, probed, etc.). My version originally started as Oral Ooh, then Oral Hot Spots and then Oral Sex Hunter. See Oral Sex Hunter A Sexy Game of Hide and Seek Erogenous Zones. We also included a version in our book Sex Games & Foreplay Ideas For Couples: Be Naughty Play Dirty Together.

For my game design, I also wanted players to stimulate each other aurally for hits and misses during the game play. Why just enjoy foreplay when a “ship” is sunk – a relatively rare event? You can add hot dirty talk by combining aural sex with oral sex to ramp up the mental foreplay. You want to keep the anticipation and sexual tension building throughout the game. For example, instead of just calling out a miss, use some creative, naughty misdirection by saying “ooh, you came so close to my hot, wet pussy”. And for a hit, “Aah, you’re hot tongue just flicked my clit.” The intensity of the naughty talk can be adjusted on the fly from sweet to nasty.

For hits, you could sensually whisper the letter and an erotic desire followed by a sensual kiss. Knowing which letter has been revealed is important. Also, when a ship has been fully discovered, you get to physically pleasure your partner on that spot in any way you desire. Of course, you’ll need to adapt the activity to the current level of undress. Note: if you’re going to get physically close during the game, make sure to flip your grid maps over.

Keeping with the theme, when you uncover or find all the erogenous zones of your lover, you’ll be hot’n ready for the sexual prize. This could be something agreed to before the game or selected randomly from a set of cards. To ensure the game is replayable and adaptable to player preferences, I wanted to have the players creatively come up with their own. Since it is an oral sex style game, the reward activity should involve the erogenous zones they used on their grid. For instance, the winner might choose to orally pleasue any or all discovered sensual zones until they completely overcome their rival. No losers in these games. Alternatively, your lover could spend a few minutes orally pleasuring any of your “unsunk” erogenous zones for at least a few minutes each. This rule provides an incentive to hide your ships well. As the game winner, you also receive oral sex to orgasm. Hopefully you’ll graciously provide your worthy opponent with a similar consolation prize – maybe by fucking them into submission.

Since foreplay games generally lead to sex play, you will want to include a stripping component into the game. You could have a player strip an item of clothing each time a “ship” is sunk. This makes sense if you’re discovering or revealing erogenous zones. However, since there are more ships than clothing (usually), a different mechanism may be better. Also, a physical stimulation reward has already been assigned for sinking a ship. Instead, include the concept of “mines” or traps. Place a specific number of triggers designated by an asterisk – say 6-10. If hit, the player calling out the target location must strip an item of clothing. Depending on how many you want to add, you could also roll a die to determine if the trigger causes a stripping event, drinking or a truth or dare activity.

If you have the Love Battleships game above, you can easily add “mines” into your game play. Our books below may come in handy.

 
See the sidebar and some of our other posts for straight variations of these books. Check out our creative sex apps too.

Note: If you’re currently away from the one you love (or expect to be), the aural sex aspect of my game designs are useful. You can keep the sexual fires burning bright by playing over the phone or via a chat/video app. The hot dirty talk during the game makes it great for spicing up long-distance relationships with phone sex or cybersex. Of course, with video chat technology, you can still include stripping and even directed self pleasuring or masturbation.

Seek Hot Sex

While designing a new style of sex coupons called Naughty Tricky Treats, I purchased a word search generator tool, created some custom python code, and wrote a few lists of dirty words. I wanted a sex voucher that was a little harder to redeem than the simplistic sex coupon books currently available. Why not turn it into a sexy game? Instead of just a dirty word find, I wanted to create a sexy game for couples.

As you can imagine, a grid of dirty words and random letters just needs a coordinate system to become an Oral Sex Hunter style game. With this in mind, I created a variety of Seek Hot Sex books with hard word puzzles for adults. Each puzzle is organized in a 26×30 grid pattern with a corresponding blank grid on the back of the page. The blank grids are used for scoring hits. Each filled grid contains over 80 sex-related words randomly selected from many hundreds specially chosen. For two players, this gives you 25 bedroom battle games that are completely different each time. That’s more than three times the game play for significantly less money than the packaged game with a pretty package.

 
You’ll want both books of course. We also have Gay and Lesbian versions available.

If you do order one of our books or apps, Thank You. Please give it a good rating and post a comment. Maybe share your ideas for spicing up the romantic games you play or design. It’ll help other couples improve their relationship.

A HOT AFFAIR…with your partner! This hot relationship game is a fun way to keep communication going between couples. It encourages you to try out exciting and new activities that are intimate, sensual and revealing. After the first few years of romance together, many couples tend to find their nights of passionately exploring each other’s erogenous zones becoming more and more a distant memory. Sexy fun fades replaced with routine responsibilities and arguments.

A Hot Affair brings back the art of seduction, laughter and lust. And since you’re both playing a game, you can release built up inhibitions and feel free to be naughty again (neither of you needs to be the instigator). It really does lead to the feeling that you are having an affair … but with your partner!

So dim the lights, switch off the phone and get ready to play the hottest adult board game ever! A Hot Affair will have you loving, laughing and lusting after each other with just a few throws of the dice. Along the way, you’ll experience new, exciting and occasionally hilarious challenges with stimulating, sexy and wild conversations. The game climaxes with the winner choosing to make real one of fifty breathtaking fantasies! The perfect start to a A Hot Affair.

It all begins with a loving gaze into each other’s eyes. The last to blink throws the dice to start the game!

As you progress around the board, the questions become more intimate and the challenges more steamy. Even after you close the box the fun continues … with a special ‘treat feature’ to keep the passion going. It includes over 400 novel and fun ideas at three progressive levels of play. If you just feel like a fun romantic night, you can play with the first two levels; if you are both feeling horny, just shuffle the fantasy cards and go for it!

With hundreds of sexy activity and fantasy ideas, the game can be enjoyed over and over! Whether you are married, living together or having an actual affair, this adult board game will spice up your sex life.

Board Game Design

As you can see from the picture, the game board is square with a fairly simple circular path. There are 27 locations with 7 different types of colours/symbols corresponding to various activities. The colours are vibrant and distinct and the symbols are easily distinguishable. Aesthetically it’s simple yet almost artistic in design.

Like a lot of basic sex or relationship games on the market, there isn’t much strategy or many interesting game decisions to make. Essentially, you roll a single die and move around the board performing actions based on the type of location you land on. Although you mix in drinking, kissing, erotic dancing, stripping, sensual edibles, massaging and erogenous zone pleasuring, the variety of the cards is what makes this game fun. The board just helps to mix things up a bit.

The game comes with 65 cards in each of 3 decks (intimate, passionate, steamy). Each card is split into a Hers and His section. There are also 50 fantasy cards in a fourth deck.

Game Play Mechanics

Although there is nothing special about rolling a die and moving your token around a board, there is one game element that is suited for a foreplay and/or sex game. Each player’s token is like a spindle for DVD blanks designed to fit small plastic rings. Each time around the board, you place a coloured ring on your token – two pink, two purple then two red (6 times around the board). The colours indicates at which intensity level you’re playing. You start out intimate then progress to passionate and end with hot & steamy. Your current colour determines which of the decks of cards you draw from.

This one mechanism effectively handles the problem of how to start the foreplay off slow and progress to more intense levels of sexual activities near the end of the game. It even allows you to customize how you want to play the game – stay on the intimate level longer or for the entire game, speed up the game by using only a single ring before progressing to the next level or jump to the steamy material right away. The instructions describe these alternate ways to play.

Although not mentioned in the rules, there is one other way to play worth considering. For couples in a mature relationship, progressing through the levels sequentially may seem a little slow. But just jumping to the steamy cards misses the opportunities to revisit some of the intimate and passionate ideas. In this situation, it might be good to mix up the cards. Of course shuffling the three decks is an option. A better idea might be using the current die roll to determine which deck to pick from. For example, 1-2 is for intimate, 3-4 is for passionate and 5-6 is for steamy. You can even juggle the odds for more steamy action by assigning 1 and 2 to intimate and passionate respectively and 3-6 for steamy.

Although there are a few locations on the board where you have a choice of what to do from a pleasuring perspective (“up to your imagination”), there is only one main game related decision to make during play. Every time you go around the board, you get to pick up a Fantasy card but you only get to keep two. So, at some point, you need to determine which one you want to keep. One of the two remaining Fantasy cards at the end constitutes the reward for winning the game. If you have a really good card, you’ll want to win more but really it’s just a matter of rolling the die.

Foreplay Game Elements

Other than the cards, there are various locations on the board that give you the opportunity to engage in some erotic or pleasuring activities.

The level independent spaces are:

• The Heart symbol indicates you can make up your own activity or just relax
• The Drink symbol indicates you take a drink (you can make this more erotic by doing body shots)
• The Shoe symbol indicates you strip an item of clothing (or maybe dress in something more sexy)

On some spaces, the activity has different intensity variations based on the current level:

• The Lips symbol indicates you should kiss each other (but really, just a kiss on the cheek for the intimate level)
• The Fruit symbol indicate you should erotically use a food item to stimulate yourself or your partner
• The Erotic Dancing location indicates you should perform a sensual, sexy or lap dance
• Landing on the Massage location gets you a relaxing, sensual or erotic massage from your partner
• When you land on the Erogenous Zone you roll the die to determine what body part gets pleasured by your partner

In my opinion, the descriptions of the intimate, passionate and steamy variations for these locations seem a little contrived. Sure they provide some guidance as an example but most couples should be capable of adapting the activities to their current level of undress and arousal level. In general, these locations encourages some generic types of pleasuring and work fairly well with the card selection locations.

However, the rules for when you land on the Erogenous Zone location are just plain Stupid! In the first place, linking the erogenous zone to a single die roll is very restrictive. Even with the limitation of only 6 body regions to pleasure, it is still possible to make it work. But I am totally amazed by the ridiculous list included in the rules. Who selected the body parts for the list and who approved it? Were they heavily “medicated” or did some censor in the editing department make a quick rewrite? Ear Lobe, Neck, Inner Thigh are okay. But Eyelids? Who in their right mind thinks stroking, kissing, sucking and nibbling on eyelids is pleasurable? And this one “The line where the thigh meets the buttocks” – why? And then just for kicks, a “Wildcard. Your choice of special place!”. Notice there are no breasts, legs, arms, actual buttocks, stomach, etc. They could have used any of the many types of sex dice available to find some inspiration to come up with a better list.

Here is a simple fix that eliminates the restriction of the single die while providing more foreplay flexibility:

Your partner will sensually stimulate any exposed erogenous zone they choose. They must select a different region of your body each time you land on this location.

Or, just get yourself a set of sex dice and roll them when you land on that particular location.

Also, rather than having the Massage and Erogenous Zone spaces be passive pleasure receiving locations, they should be reoriented to be active and giving. Rather than receiving a massage when you land on the location, you perform the massage. This is more consistent with the other locations where the player landing on the spot performs an action. Either way it balances out in the long run but I think the consistency in the rules makes them easier to remember.

The cards are definitely the centre of interest with this game. The thing to keep in mind though is that our brains are our biggest sex organ. Many of the cards are questions to stimulate discussion and find more about each other. Some are a little outrageous and most are flavoured with a bit of humour. There are erotic activities to be performed as well. I did find some of the activity ideas a little baffling in that they seemed to be intended more for discussion or “mentally simulated stimulation” but were not written as questions. Certain ideas seemed to be included as a joke intended to induce erotic fits of laughter more than anything. For instance, one card suggested vaginally inserting yogurt with a penis – what? Granted the good bacteria of plain yogurt may be beneficial but who even has that stuff in their fridge. You definitely don’t want to be putting flavoured and sweetened yogurt there. But this card did generate some lively and fun discussion between my wife and I. Almost every card you read will at least put a smile on your face.

One other curious note. To determine who goes first:

Lovingly gaze into each other’s eyes. The last to blink throws the dice to start the game!

When I first read this, I originally thought it was kind of lame. However, after reading Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Behavior, and Brains–The Science Behind Sex, Love, & Attraction it appears this may be a very important part of the foreplay. Gazing into each other’s eyes actually makes you more intensely attracted to your partner and it creates a “surge of romantic love”. Definitely a great way to start A Hot Affair.

Get The Adult Board Game A Hot Affair

The game is very well crafted with good quality cards and packaging. The card ideas help you explore your inner feelings and encourages some fun and serious erotic discussions. You’ll have a great time discovering or relearning things about each other while having fun laughing and playing together. It even gives you some sexy ideas to surprise your lover with in the future. Set aside some private time alone and without distraction so you can get the most from this game.

Order A Hot Affair Adult Board Game and discover how much fun you can have with your partner.

I hope you enjoyed this adult board game design review. Please leave a comment with your experience playing this game and any ideas you have for enhancing it for other couples who want to experience A Hot Affair.

If you’re interested in roleplaying your own hot affairs, check out our sexual fantasy books:

• 123 Frisky Sexual Fantasies & Erotic Roleplay Ideas
• 123 Lesbian Sexual Fantasies & Naughty Roleplay Games

 
The books are featured in the sidebar. Wookbook versions are also available. They are designed for you to plan out or customize the roleplay scenarios so you can Make It Personal and Make It Happen!

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