Tunnels of Doom

Luigi Saggase’s Zombie Nightmare is a free solitaire board game that pits Jeff against a growing horde of zombies as he tries to make his way across an infested graveyard.

The game is available as a downloadable PDF which you cut out and assemble into a nifty little solitaire time-killer. The art by Michele Saggase is simplistic and a little bland but perfectly functional and the board is square-tile based, about 11.5″x7″. Also included are cutouts for 12 zombies, 2 zombie dogs, a gate counter, a revolver counter and of course the Jeff counter. All you need to supply are a pair of six-sided dice.

The game works in three phases: You roll to see where a new zombie will spawn, then you move Jeff and then you move the zombies. The zombies spawn on one of 15 board tiles and move one space toward Jeff. Jeff moves three spaces and then each zombie moves two in the direction of Jeff. At Jeff’s disposal are a number of open graves which he can occasionally lure zombies to fall into, a few assorted obstacles that impede the zombie’s progress and his revolver which has exactly one shot. Other than that it’s up to foresight and a little luck to get Jeff across the 18×13 board to the gate and into safety.

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