CAH has a problem in its card design – the references are so specific that they don’t gel with many answer cards. And that’s fine, it works because more often that not people will fail to draw the simplest things in a recognisable way.īut what if you had to draw something from a Cards Against Humanity answer card? Then the overwhelming flaw in CAH becomes a massive benefit. Telestrations requires people to wilfully but plausibly misinterpret drawings, and intentionally draw plausible but misleading interpretations. And then you reveal your booklet to the table to find out yeah, everyone drew a house. If someone draws a house and you guess a house, then the next person will draw a house and the person after that will guess a house. This isn’t the most original pairing or anything, but the thing about Telestrations is that it’s a very funny game… if people aren’t playing to succeed. #9 – I’d Like to Ship… Cards Against Humanity and Telestrations
At my age though, that can happen at literally any minute. Luckily, I actually can make this one myself so it’s on my bucket list of things to do before I die. What lies about a third of the way between a monkey and an avalanche? What’s lies in the middle of ice cream and a ghost? I mean, it’s not a game that I imagine anyone could win but it’s a game that I’d absolutely play just for the experience of having done it. Why not spice that up with some proper surrealism and deal yourself a couple of Codenames cards. But also, I thought having these things on a coherent spectrum was a bit of an own goal. So, in cosmic terms, ‘room temperature’ may as well be the same thing as the endless void of space.Īnd it’s a really interesting game I’m looking to play more. Then you watch everyone else argue ‘Absolute zero’ is -273.15 degrees Celcsius and the sun’s core is 15 million degrees. If you need something about half way between hot and cold you might say ‘A glass or room temperature water’. It’s a game about a ‘psychic’ being presented with a target, and having to give a concept that exists between two extremes as a calibration exercise for his or her teammates. We haven’t reviewed Wavelength yet, because last night was the first time I’d played it. Instead, let’s do… #10 – I’d Like to Ship… Codenames and Wavelength Wait, this is just Pokemon isn’t it? Right, let’s abandon that one. #10 – I’d Like to Ship… Dungeon Petz and Tash Kalar Honestly, I think you could probably get rid of all the other stuff and make a tremendously exciting game of ship combat with just this system. What if the combat actually was as exciting as its stakes imply it to be? What if instead of rolling dice, there was a real-time card battle between the ships? One where you throw crew-members and resources into your various tasks and it’s the first one that manages to line everything up that gets to take the shot? Or perhaps you take turns, one firing and one repairing the damage. It’s easily the most exciting battle system I’ve seen because, while it’s not all that interesting it’s so high stakes that you can’t fail to be invested. This is ‘Everything you’ve been working towards for the past hour is gone, forever’. Every roll of the dice carries with it the promise of watery oblivion and this isn’t ‘Go to jail, do not pass go’ kind of stuff. The combat in Merchants and Marauders is brutal.
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Pit Crew is a frantic exercise of trying to quickly repair a car in real-time by trying to lay a series of cards out in a finnicky, pernickety pattern of horror and compromise. Merchants and Marauders is a profoundly excellent game of sailing in the golden age of piracy. #11 – I’d like to Ship… Merchants & Marauders and Pit Crew
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