5 - What's Yours Like? (c)
At first I wasn't so sure about this game until I was told the rules. I don't remember it word for word but what I do remember is this. There are many cards that have random assortments of things on them that can be anything from inanimate objects to skills that you use in your daily life. To give you an example some of our words were "Typing ability, siblings, attention span" and a few other words that I cannot remember but one person is to guess the word by receiving clues from the others players with answers that are not supposed to be easy to guess but not extraordinarily vague. Example, Say you picked the card with the word "Rake" on it. I would say "Mine is sharp" while someone else may say "Mine is metal" and the final person may say "Mine is missing teeth." A little vague but that is alright as the clues will get easier with time. It might start out a little slow at first but we played this game for about two hours straight until we almost passed out. Just a simple little game that I thought was fun to play.
4 - Betrayal at House on the Hill (c)
Going out to a local game and hobby shop this past Saturday, my wife and one of her friends wanted me and another of my friends to play this game with them. I was the only one who hadn't played so once again, I wasn't so sure about it. This game is along the lines of the game Arkham Horror (C) if anyone has ever heard of it or played it as you choose your players that have their own stats the are used for various instances such as escaping from falling into a collapsed room and plummeting to the basement or fighting off specters that come in through the windows. Now there are some interesting rules to this game. The map of the board game is not pre-constructed. There are tiles with doors that you link to either the basement, ground or upper floors and you add a new one on the board when your character moves to another room that may reveal certain events, items or omens. After certain conditions are filled, one of your party members becomes the betrayer which unleashes something terrible in the house. For example, our friend was playing a little girl and she was inadvertently possessed by "The Mad Man" I think? Can't remember the name correctly. He summoned specters in all the rooms that had windows that had been revealed and he then got his own special victory conditions and we as the remaining players got ours which was to either exorcise the specters or destroy them with special items. At that point things got pretty hairy as my character almost died and the specters ran rampant but within a few turns we were able to get the upper hand and vanquish them. There are many other instances that can happen with this game and I look forward to playing the rest of them so I would give this one a try if you are into things like this.
3 - Cash N Guns (C)
Now this game might look like a childs game due to the cartoonish artwork plastered on the front cover of the box and it even states that it is for ages 10 and up right on the front of the box. Now before anyone gets on their high horse about how this promotes gun violence or anything else of the sort, this is A BOARD GAME OF FICTIONAL PROPORTIONS meaning it is not real. The props are not real (yes there are prop pistols) the money is not real and the incentive of doing this for real is not..real. Now, on to the fun part. Game play. This game centers around group of gangsters that have just hit the biggest job of their lives and now it is time to split up the pot but I guess there are people who think they've earned more than their fair share so now it has turned to a game of chicken in a sense to see who gets the pot or shares of the pot. You are given a prop gun and a fictional character cut out. The mob boss lays out the loot for the round and you have eight bullet cards. Five of them are a "Click!" while three of them are "Bang!." Once you have chosen your bullet card (ugh...this is going to sound horrible) you point the prop gun at another player and it becomes a game of chicken. The mob boss can be targeted and he has a special ability that states he can make you point at someone other than him, but only once. Then the mob boss begins a count down from three. If you think you might get hit with a bang! card then you can knock your character over, saving them from getting a wound token after one has been called but not getting any shares of the loot. If you want to stay up you yell out "BANZAI!" and then you turn your card over along with the other people who stayed up. If someone has targeted you and they had a click! card, you are safe and you will get some share of the loot unless you are hit with a bang! card. Then you are knocked down and get a wound token. If you get three total, you are out of the game. Those are the general rules and if you want to learn more about the rules, just go check it out. Definitely a fun drinking game for you and a couple of your friends in my opinion.
2 - Munchkin (C)
Oh Munchkin. Soo many nights of thinking "I've got this game in the bag with this next monster card...then it all goes horribly wrong when your "Best buddy" decides to remember that time in eighth grade when you didn't pay him back for that soda you bought when you didn't have the change and throw a couple of cards your way and forever ruin your shot at winning the game. As the name on the box implies, "Kill the monsters. Steal the treasure. Stab your buddy. (C) (C) (C)" This game has a lot of rules to follow so I will not go into extreme depth. Basically every player is a character in a dungeon crawling adventure and every time you kill a monster, you get a level and treasure. you can also sell treasure equal to a value of one thousand or more to gain another level as well. The goal is usually to get to level ten to win the game but sometimes we run it up to level twenty. There are many different joke monsters to kill and loot and many joke loot cards that will either help you out in the long run or will add insult to injury on you or another one of your unsuspecting doofs...I mean buddies. This game may seem short but depending on the size of the group you are playing with, it will take hours. The longest game I have ever encountered was around five hours and we had to stop it because everyone was falling asleep at that time.
1 - Cards Against Humanity (C)
Cards Against Humanity. The game that is rude, crude and socially unacceptable in any which fashion and or setting for any number of reasons, yet that is the best thing about it. It is a card game that is essentially Apple to Apples (C) for people of the variety of foul minded people like myself and my friends. Now if you have ever played Apple to Apples then you know what to expect. Everyone gets a few cards in their hands and one person draws a card from a draw deck and now players have to complete the sentence or phrase as best as they can with the cards they have been dealt. Sometimes things work out in their favor but it is more often than not and you have to cater to that persons mindset and really know who they are because the one who drew from the draw deck will decide who the winner is and will get a point or card or whatever and once they have X amount of points/cards then they win. Same exact thing in CAH but with more vulgar things that one shouldn't utter around Grandma...unless your Grandma is awesome like that. My wife and I, along with our friends got this game rolling at the game shop that we frequent and people were tapping in and playing halfway through games because we were having a blast. We were also playing with a certain rule. The rule of Rando Cardissian (C)? (T)? where Rando the shadow player acts just like a normal player, but if he wins the game then everyone is forever shamed...Rando was on point every game and nearly won once. The phrase of the night and now coined by me and my friends being "Goddammit Rando!" This game is seriously fun but is obviously meant for adults over the age of 17+ but I am sure that some of you who are not of age have played this before. If you think this sounds like fun, grab a few of your friends, get some beers (if you are legal drinking age of course) and have a ball with it.
Hope you all have enjoyed my review of five board/card games you might enjoy.
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