Pocket Football
BGG rank
BGG #21,828
BGG rating
6.5

Pocket Football

1992

Rules assistance for Pocket Football

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2 players
  • 20 min
  • Complexity 1.7/5

Rules assistant for Pocket Football

For 2 players

What would you like to know?

Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.

Pocket Football is a board game released in 1992 for 2 players and 20 minutes per game. It was designed by Rene Vidmer and its main mechanics are Simultaneous Action Selection.

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About the game

Pocket Football will be mechanically familiar to anyone who has played Ace of Aces or Lost Worlds. Each player has a book, and the offensive player and defensive player simultaneously choose plays. The chosen plays together tell each player what pages to turn to in their books and the pages give the results of the play. Some additional randomness is provided by a mechanic of flipping rapidly through the book and stopping at an arbitrary page, which give you your random result.

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Publishers

  • AWV Publishing

Questions and answers

Pocket Football supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.