If you sat down to design a game about Jack and the Beanstalk, it seems inevitable that it’ll be an asymmetric contest between quick and nimble Jack (from an unrelated nursery rhyme) and the powerful and ponderous giant. If it must be a tableau manipulation game as well there’s no doubt the end result will be something along the lines of The Blood of an Englishman.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://jlericson.com/2025/03/11/blood-of-an-englishman.html