Altoids Tin Travel Games - Pocket Size Fun

Step 4: Make Your Game Pieces Part 1

You can get a little creative here, I chose to use some Fimo that I've had laying around for years and hadn't found a use for. The chess pieces can be difficult but since its your game you can make them look however you want. For the tic-tac-toe pieces I kept it simple with plain discs of different colors.

There are probably many ways to make the various game pieces you'll need so don't feel you have to follow this to the letter.

Below are the various pieces you'll need for each game:

Chess: One set for each side made of the following
8 Pawns, 2 Castles (Rooks), 2 Knights, 2 Bishops, 1 King, 1 Queen.

Checkers:
12 Checkers of one colour, 12 checkers of another colour

Backgammon:
Two sets of 15 checkers, Two sets of two dice, one doubling cube with sides numbered 2,4,8,16, 32, and 64

It would be a good idea to just use the backgammon checkers for regular checkers instead of making seperate pieces for each game.

Comments

[haugenka]

I'm thinking you could use the letters from an old typewriter to press into the fimo – Q for queen, etc. The only issue is the knights & king, but the king is usually designated with a cross, so you could use the plus or X. I'd still probably try to shape them a bit, but this would help and give it a nice industrial look...

[CrazyRainChild]

For chess pieces you could have each piece be a different color rather than shape. Then one team could have circle pieces and one team could have square pieces. That way you would not have to try to shape the pieces.

[jphphotography]

At first when I read your comment I thought that would take way too many colours but after thinking more about it you're right. Unfortunately I only had 2 colours so I was stuck. You'd need 6 colours but if you were mixing them you could probably do it with less, say if you just picked up Red, Yellow, Blue for example. Thanks for the suggestion.