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Feb 26, 2026·Board game video·04:43·79·Watch on YouTube

BRAIN GOLFING from Happy Pastimes - first look

Happy Pastimes

Happy Pastimes

Watch “BRAIN GOLFING from Happy Pastimes - first look,” a board game video for Happy Pastimes: Brain Golfing from Happy Pastimes on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Happy Pastimes on YouTube:

A first look into my first pen and paper game. I'm Malte from Happy Pastimes. I wanted to create something fun, simple yet strategic to play offline. I love the idea to reinvent mobile games to be playable with pen and paper only. I started with golf but want to explore other genres as well, like jump and run, tower defense or dungeon crawler. I want to figure out how to translate the on screen mechanics to just pen and paper. After holding the first booklet in my hand I just fell in love with this tiny format. In this video I give you a quick walkthrough and show you how to play a game of BRAIN GOLFING. You have 5 Courses with 18 holes - 90 maps in total. If you want to try it yourself? You can download a printable PDF from my website happypastimes.com Let me know what you think on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HappyPastimes/ or in the comments on YouTube. If you want to get notified when the crowdfunding on Kickstarter starts, join the newsletter from my website.

Happy Pastimes: Brain Golfing

Happy Pastimes: Brain Golfing

2026

1 players
2 - 5 min

About Happy Pastimes: Brain Golfing, from BoardGameGeek:

Brain Golfing is a pocket-sized pen-and-paper strategy game. The format is a small Wire-O-bound DIN A7 booklet. No dice required, the game uses a fixed number strip, giving the player full information to plan their path across each hole. Each booklet contains 90 individually designed holes across five courses. The playing field is a hex grid map with terrain types including water, sand, trees, hills, wind fields, and portals, each with distinct mechanical effects. The player has access to five power-ups that can change the dice or alter the path making the game even more engaging. The goal is simple: move the ball to the hole in as few strokes as possible and beat the target score. Brain Golfing supports solo play as well as head-to-head and group modes, all within a single shared booklet. -description from the designer

Publisher

Self-published

Categories

Abstract StrategyMath & Numbers

Mechanics

Grid MovementHex Grid
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