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.

In a previous post, various ideas were identified to transform chess, the classic strategy board game for two, into a bedroom game for couples. Here is a brief outline for a sexy variation of chess with a special focus on the queen. The rules for this adult board game design include a special twist that lets you play your queen again, even if she’s been taken once, twice or more (that dirty girl).

When coming up with this erotic chess game idea, I started with the title Queens Gone Wild which was inspired by the Girls Gone Wild commercials. I also wanted to tie in a reference to the fact that many women tend to prefer more foreplay as a prerequisite for great sex. More foreplay may even lead to multiple orgasms – she’ll come again and again. I also wanted to work in the ideas that “if you’re willing to continue playing with your queen, she won’t give up until you’re both satisfied” and “in her frisky sexual fantasies, the queen takes on a whole range of characters, whether they be a pawn, knight, king or even another queen”. Also, since the queen is one of the most powerful pieces in chess, she may be played in aggressive or protective strategies. These roles could be worked into the flavor of the game as being dominant or submissive. Finally, although the ultimate goal may be to mate the king, playing with the queen leading up to the climax makes it much more fun.

Rather than sticking with the exact rules of chess, I wanted to add in a few erotic twists that would make playing with the queen more interesting and rewarding. First, every capture event that involves a queen is assigned a foreplay activity with a degree of intimate intensity related to the pieces involved. For instance, a queen capturing a pawn may warrant a passionate kiss while a pawn capturing a queen may be rewarded with a kinkier activity. However, if the queen is out taking everyone in her path, she’s likely to be taken herself. If that happens, the controlling player no longer has any way to obtain pleasure rewards, except by taking the other queen. And if both queens are taken early in play, the foreplay game loses it’s erotic appeal. To fix this, we need to let the queen get back in the game.

As a second rule modification, if your queen is taken, you have the choice of stripping an item of clothing to have her come back into the game. Your partner/opponent gets to replace your queen anywhere on your half of the board. This makes it a strip game as well as a foreplay game. It also changes how couples will play with their queen – it’s not devastating to lose her, but there is an erotic cost to get her back. Players may even switch to pursuing the queen vs the king to prolong the game and strip each other faster. This could even balance out any skill difference couples may have that might normally make them avoid playing regular chess together.

Eventually someone will get the other player in checkmate. This leads to one final rule modification that involves actually taking the king. By assigning a sex position, roleplay scenario or other kinky activity to each of the possible king capture events (pawn takes king, queen takes king and even king takes king), you can add another sexy element to help build erotic tension. Players may even strategize to obtain the sexual reward they want most. So, even after checkmate, the player can make a final move to either get another pleasure reward or set themselves up to ensure a climactic sex activity they want. Note that stalement is not permitted and you may have to move into check if you have no other move.

Update: Check out our article Erotic Chess, Sex Chess or Strip Chess, You’ll Love Chess With Queens Gone Wild with detailed rules.

If you want to play Queens Gone Wild, here is an editable PDF template created with the various capture events defined with sample foreplay ideas. It’s free to download. The text areas can be edited and filled in with your own foreplay activities if you like.

Queens Gone Wild Erotic Chess Template

Here is a sexy variation to play when you are not in a position to actually get physical. Imagine the queen fooling around with each man/woman or fantasy creature on the board. She’s searching for an elusive orgasm. Whenever you take a queen or use your queen to take another piece, you must describe a sexual act the two are performing. Make it different each time, building up to some really kinky sex play that may just be part of your own fantasies.

We hope you enjoy designing, customizing and playing your very own adult board games for couples. Get more ideas for your lovemaking games in our Sex Games & Foreplay Ideas For Couples: Be Naughty Play Dirty Together book available on Amazon. It includes hundreds of pleasuring activities of different intensity levels mapped to both dice and cards for use in your intimate games.

For more straight, gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and threesome foreplay games and activities, get our book: Extra Naughty Frisky Foreplay: Hot Sex Dice Games. The dirty dice activities can be used in any of your naughty games.

Also check out some of our sex game books and apps featured in the sidebar. The naughty game books below provide card based activity templates for your spicy couples games and include lots of pleasuring examples to inspire you.

I hope you enjoy playing erotic chess with the one you love. If you do order one of our apps or books, Thank You! Please give it a good rating and post a comment. It’ll help other couples find it and improve their relationship too. Maybe share ideas for spicing up any of the couples games you play.

Chess is a very popular board game that many people know how to play at least casually. It’s a great game for couples to playfully match wits, possibly with intimate rewards for the winner. Most people also have an old chess board laying around their home or cottage. The EveryGame app for the iPad (my favorite foreplay game platform) even comes with a chess game included. It can even be customized or completely redesigned if desired. Why not create an adult board game design based on chess? An erotic chess game would be great for couples who want to spice up their bedroom fun. This article discusses a few possible ideas to make your own sex game.

Update: See our next article Queens Gone Wild with more details for an erotic chess game for couples.

Update 2: Unfortunately the EveryGame app was apparently crippled by Apple imposed restrictions. The ability to customize and create your own games was removed. We are experiencing our own difficulties and frustrations getting our apps approved.

I have seen some simple strip chess variations that involve removing an item of clothing for each piece captured (WTF?). There is also one that assigns foreplay activities to the type of piece captured. For instance, capture a pawn and get a passionate kiss. This variation is a little better than just stripping. It does provide for some interesting foreplay possibilities. The foreplay favours could even be made relatively tame for the first game and then become more intensely intimate in the next. And, of course, the overall winner of these foreplay games would receive an appropriate pleasure reward as a bonus.

This simple variation of erotic chess effectively has only six events that can be assigned a foreplay activity (pawn, knight, bishop, rook, queen, and king in check or mate). One of these events should be tied to a stripping activity for the first game at least (maybe bishops and/or knights). This doesn’t leave many options for the other capture events. Activities would also need to be relatively generic such as fondling, massaging or kissing a body part. A rule could be added that these foreplay actions are to be done only on an exposed region or erogenous zone. Couples would then have an incentive to capture/defend select pieces which would help increase the erotic tension.

Beyond just the type of piece captured, there are actually many other types of events that could be assigned a foreplay activity. The rarity or skill level required to perform the event could also correspond to the type of foreplay idea assigned. For example, the combinations of the piece captured and the capturing piece creates more unique event types (i.e. pawn takes queen or rook takes bishop). Even the type of piece used to put a king in check could be viewed as a unique event. Castling and the type of pawn promotion (doesn’t have to be a queen) are also possible events. Of course, there needs to be a balance between the variety of possible foreplay ideas and the complexity of defining/using them in your adult board game design.

Also, there is no reason the rules of the board game can’t be modified slightly to accommodate or encourage certain types of desired activities. For example, losing a queen is usually fairly devastating, but what if you could strip an item of clothing to get her put back on the board again. The queen could come again and again (multiple orgasms anyone). And what about the king. Why limit the rules to just getting the player in checkmate or worse stalemate? The type of piece taking the king could be mapped to a sex play activity (oral sex, doggie style, anal sex, bondage, etc.). One final foreplay activity could be squeezed in by the other player before the final climax. They could even move their king to be taken the way they want.

In some adult board game designs, foreplay favours or forfeits are randomized to create sensual variety and anticipation. Although you could roll sex dice or pick foreplay activity cards in your erotic chess game, knowing what each capture event corresponds to may actually enhance the game play. It may even help balance player skill level by encouraging couples to alter their strategy for pleasure rather than conquest. But as a quick way to add more foreplay variety, include components from some of your other foreplay games. Instead of assigning specific foreplay favours to a captured piece, specify a type of foreplay selection method such as erotic dice, foreplay idea cards or a set of fun sex questions. Although you won’t know the exact activity or challenge for each piece, you’ll still have a general idea, which will still influence the game play strategy.

For a huge variety of straight, gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and threesome foreplay activities, get our book: Extra Naughty Frisky Foreplay: Hot Sex Dice Games. The dirty dice activities can be used in any of your naughty games. Also check out some of our sex game books and apps featured in the sidebar. We also created a few dice based dirty truth or dare games for couples that can be used with your Sexy Chess games.

I hope you enjoyed these ideas to make your own adult board game design based on chess. Please leave a comment describing your variations of foreplay games using chess. Also check out the Love Chess computer game that you can play online or together with your partner. It’s sexy entertainment at it’s finest – a combination of erotic art and chess. Note: unfortunately this game is no longer available. We’ve left in the banner ad to inspire you. It may be refreshed and come back again at some point. The link now points to our rules for Queens Gone Wild.

Checkers is a simple and popular board game that almost everyone knows how to play. Most people also have an old checkers board laying around the house. EveryGame for the iPad (my current favourite foreplay game platform) even comes with a checkers game included. And, it can be customized or completely redesigned if desired. Why not create an adult board game design based on checkers? Of course we’ll want something a little more challenging than “strip one item for each piece you capture“. That’s just too easy and a little boring when what you want is to build anticipation and desire. It’s more fun to work a little for the ultimate reward.

Update: See our article Jump For Joy with more details for an erotic checkers game for couples.

Update 2: Unfortunately the EveryGame app was apparently crippled by Apple imposed restrictions. The ability to customize and create your own games was removed. We are experiencing our own difficulties and frustrations getting our apps approved. See the sidebar for some we have been able to publish.

There are a large number of checker variations that use different board configurations, numbers of pieces and interesting rules that could all be adapted into a foreplay game for couples. The primary challenge is to retain the fast, simple play structure while designing in mechanisms to help build erotic tension. Checkers normally involves lots of capture moves so stripping and other foreplay activities should be tied to less frequent game events. Otherwise players will be licking and sucking each other constantly with little focus on the actual game. Assigning sex activities to the end of each game would draw out the erotic play too much. There needs to be a balance to make playing fun and winning even more sweet.

I like to reward skilled or lucky plays with a foreplay activity or sexual forfeit to encourage players to get into the game. Also, it’s nice to add a bit of flavour text to the sex game to give it more of an erotic appeal. Checkers is an abstract game but with a bit of context, it can be transformed into a sexy setting for randy roleplay. Spice it up a bit with a creative sex oriented theme and title. You may consider the pieces to be men and women in some form of erotic struggle with each other. When promoting pieces turn them into kings and queens or any other term that suits your theme. And, of course, you’ll want some kind of reason to be jumping each other (euphemism for sex) to get to the other side even if it is a little contrived or tongue in cheek. My view is that when you enhance the mental stimulation you increase the frisky fun factor too.

Foreplay Rewards & Forfeits

There are relatively few types of game events in regular checkers, but there are some that could warrant a foreplay bonus. Stripping could also be tied to specific game events as well. However, since most people tend to wear only 4-6 items of clothing, you’ll want these events to be relatively infrequent so it’s paced over a period of time. Here are a few possibilities:

• If you jump multiple pieces in a single turn receive a foreplay bonus
• If you promote a piece to a king/queen receive a foreplay bonus
• If you jump a king/queen receive a foreplay bonus
• If you jump a king/queen with a regular piece your partner must strip an item of clothing
• When you win a game, your partner must strip an item of clothing
• Best 3 out of 5 games selects a sexual reward as the ultimate winner

 
The foreplay bonus could be determined by rolling sex dice or using foreplay cards from another sex game.

Other Variations

Using the EveryGame app on the iPad, it’s easy to create new images for the checker pieces. This opens up a few more creative possibilities (use sticky labels on physical pieces if desired – numbers mapping to detailed descriptions if required). Here are some other ideas that could be incorporated into a sexy checkers game:

• Assign each piece with a sex position or activity (blow job, cunnilingus, doggie style, anal sex, bondage, roleplay, etc.). Randomly or strategically place the pieces on the board. Last sex position left on the board is the one performed.
• Assign each piece a body part (hand, leg, lips, pussy, cock, foot, butt, etc.). When you jump a piece, you must use the body part of the jumper to stimulate the body part(s) jumped.
• Assign each piece the name of a person (celebrity, historic figure, friend, politician, fictional character, cartoon, etc.). When you jump a piece, you must also describe the two or more people doing something nasty together.
• Use wrapped chocolates or candies as the checker pieces and enjoy them each time you capture one or two.

 
For a huge variety of straight, gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and threesome foreplay activities, get our book: Extra Naughty Frisky Foreplay: Hot Sex Dice Games. The sexy activities range from warm & loving to wild & kinky. Play the game as is or use the ideas in your own couples games. There are six intensity levels with 36 foreplay ideas per level that map to two dice. If you play multiple games of checkers, you could advance to a new level for each game played and roll the dice to determine a foreplay favour to perform when a capture is made.

Also check out our Spicy Dares & Desires adult game books. Combine strip checkers and dice based naughty truth or dare activities. It will get you talking dirty and playing dirty.

I hope you enjoyed these ideas to make your own adult board game design based on checkers. If you do order one of our apps or books, Thank You! Please give it a good rating and post a comment. Great feedback will help other couples find it so they can improve their relationship too. Maybe share ideas for spicing up any of the couples games you play.

One of the things I like about adult board games is that they provide a semi-random and fun way to introduce new sex related topics or ideas. If you want to make your own sex game or spice up another board game that you enjoy playing, you’ll face the challenge of coming up with creative erotic activities to include in your game. A similar mechanism is useful in relationship games that involve intimate questions. You may be bursting with questions to ask a new or even long term partner, but you don’t want to come across as an interrogator at an inquisition. An entire spectrum of intimate questions could be included in a board game format and revealed randomly in a fun way.

Update: also see our article Foreplay Ideas for Sexy and Romantic Games for Couples.

Many adult games use decks of cards with sexy questions, foreplay ideas, pleasuring activities or erotic challenges organized into categories or intensity levels. Cards provide enough space to include a reasonable amount of detailed text or graphics to describe an activity with appropriate flavour text as well. The content still needs to be succinctly written in just a few short sentences (unless you have really big cards). Unfortunately this requires leaving out a fair bit of background information that may be useful for some couples. This leads to the primary source of obtaining ideas for your game activities.

Many sex related ideas are best collected into a book format so they can be presented with sufficiently detailed background and contextual information. But the extra detail does introduce a different problem – individual ideas are not as convenient to access when you want them. I have a huge collection of relationship enhancement books. They all have at least a few unique and wonderful ideas that would be amazing to try out at different times. In fact, the more books you have the more difficult it becomes to find just the right activity to suit your mood.

Also, once you’ve read a book, you may not necessarily remember the idea when the time comes to use it. All the detailed background information is still in your head mixed in with all the other stuff you think about. What you need is a mechanism to trigger your recall when you’re in a situation to actually use the idea. When you’re playing a foreplay game, it’s a perfect time to trigger that recall and get frisky.

This is one reason why we developed the iLoveRandomSex app. In addition to our own list of sexy ideas, we provide a feature to add/edit your own ideas. You can even include a reference so you can look up the details later if you need. Many of our other sex apps feature in the sidebar have this feature as well.

Most couples have a collection of relationship enhancement or sex books or have at least come across articles about the subject in magazines or online. Although you may want to introduce new ideas in your game or help people learn more, you need to assume players have some level of background information already. The trick is to craft the idea in a way that most effectively ties in cues to related concepts that you expect people know. Your game provides a fun way to refresh their memory and create new memories as well.

As an adult board game designer, you’ll want to read as many books on the subject as possible while collecting key ideas as you go. Use a mind map or spreadsheet to record the essence of the idea. When you are designing your game, you can quickly scan the information and trigger your own recall. Without copying directly, you’ll be able to work the idea into your concept and more easily adapt the flavour text of the activity to your theme.

For a short cut, check out 500 Sex & Lovemaking Tips and 500 Intimate Questions for Couples for inspiration. You’ll find lots of ideas already condensed and organized for you. Note that these resources are a little tame – see below for our versions.

For more naughty ideas, check out our sexy apps and books featured in the sidebar. For a huge variety of straight, gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and threesome foreplay activities, get our book: Extra Naughty Frisky Foreplay: Hot Sex Dice Games. The sexy activities range from warm & loving to wild & kinky. Play the game as is or use the ideas in your own couples games. There are six intensity levels with 36 foreplay ideas per level that map to two dice.

 
I hope you enjoy making your own adult board game designs. If you do order one of our apps or books, Thank You! Please give it a good rating and post a comment. Great feedback will help other couples find it so they can improve their relationship too. Maybe share ideas for spicing up any of the couples games you play. Your feedback also helps motivate us to continue creating adult game design content. It’s much appreciated.