The Board Game Designers Forum is sponsoring monthly design challenges, to give your creative design juices a workout. The format is they give you a Theme, Genre and a few Mechanics restrictions and you come up with a sketch of a design in a week. They're posted anonymously and then for one week you vote for the best. This month, Brett (from Usonian Games) and I came up with Die Wichtelmänner, a game based on the Grimm fairy tale "The Shoemaker and the Elves." Voting ended today, and we tied for second! Yay! It was fun even if we didn't score highly, it's nice to have a new design to work on a tweak, and collaboarting with another designer was fun. Check it out (we're entry #9) and let me know what you think!