I started designing No Time’s Too Short For Shorts!™ (or NTTSFS!) in 2021. The aim for it was to be a simple card game that could be played over and over. I feel that I have completed that goal well. It is that sort of game.
The quirky theme of NTTSFS! is based on how I wear shorts every day and how I can say with confidence, that I have worn shorts for some amount of time every day since the start of 2018. I have potentially even worn shorts every day since the start of 2017😯, though I cannot say that with as much confidence.
No Time’s Too Short For Shorts!™ - Print & Play Version is now available!
Print it out for yourself in full COLOUR or in GRAYSCALE - whichever one works best for you!
The instructions for No Time’s Too Short For Shorts!™ - Print & Play Version come in 3 languages: English, Te reo Māori - as Ākene Koe Torau Poto E!™ - and Japanese/日本語 - as 半ズボン王™.
No Time’s Too Short For Shorts! ™
is an abstract ‘trick-taking-like card game where all of the action happens at once!
Your aim is to wear shorts the most, each and every round. Every round you succeed at this, you win and get a point!
Will you be the ‘shortiest’ player at the table?
Or, will you be forced by the others to be down-trod and up-trowed?
In this game, the shorter the leg-wear, the better!
Who will you make wear the Trousers?
Ko Ākene Koe Tarau Poto E! ™
tētahi kēmu tūrehurehu, kēmu hangarau hoki inā te mahi a te hohenga.
Ko te whāinga ko te roa o te whakamau tarau poto, whiringa atu whiringa mai. Ka tutuki tēnei i te whiringa, kua riro i a koe taua whiringa me tētahi piro!
Ko koe rānei te toa 'poto' ki te tātāwhāinga nei?
Ka whakamaua tonutia rānei tō tarau?
Hei tēnei kēmu, he poto te tarau, he poto waitī!
半ズボン王™
このゲームは、基本ステージとアクションステージをセットとしたラウンドを積(つ)み重(かさ)ねて、勝者を決めるカードゲーム。
プレーヤー全員が、一斉(いっせい)に動き出し、駆(か)け引(ひ)き（かけひき）をしながら、前に出されたカードにより、勝者が決定！全プレーヤーの中で、もっとも半ズボンを履いた人が、各(かく)ラウンドの勝者です！
全ラウンドを通(つう)じ、ポイントを多く獲得(かくとく)し「半ズボン王」になれるか？！
それとも、負けて長ズボンを履き続けてしまうのか？！
どんな結末(けつまつ)が現れるのか、半ズボン王になって見ましょう！
Translations:
