… Play Nice (please)
A trick taking card game similar to THE CREW (published by the same company) but with a “traitor” as part of the team! So it is a coop game with the twist that the INSIDER can win the game instead of the team!
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=> Rules
How To / Review:
The New York update to the great game Santorini with three dimensional building pieces you use during game play! The New York update now is more fun with 3 or 4 players and has multiple special ability cards!
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=> Rulebook (Aug 12 2020 update)
=> Len’s One Page Rule Summary
How To Play:
Can play this game using the cards from the game The Mind (just add the cards placed in the middle of the table)
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=> Rules
Explanation and Playthrough:
If you like Clue, you should like Awkward Guests!
It plays longer with more people. With fewer people it misses the choice of who to trade with (so 3 players might be best). However, a 2 player game avoids the chance to keep getting the same cards over again because cards exchanged are then discarded. Solo mode is also quite good!
=> BoardGameGeek
=> Official Website
=> Kickstarter
=> Rulebook 10 Awkward Guests
=> Len’s 1 page Rule Summary v2
=> Keeping Track Of Turns and Actions
=> Official Clue Tracking Sheet
=> A written review of the game
How to Play with Review:
Note: be careful watching videos about this game because some are referencing the original edition which was never published … it was cancelled and relaunched as a new updated edition which is now referred to as “First Edition”.
I made a video UNBOXING my game for Earth Day 2023:
=> BoardGameGeek
=> Kickstarter
=> Rules 1st Edition
=> Information booklet Earth Rising
=> Rule Summary 1pg
=> Len’s Rule Summary v2 (3pg PDF)
=> Educational Resources (an excellent extensive list)
Interesting written review of the game:
=> Earth Rising Preview
Excellent Review:
A puzzly game from the company that gave us Tsuro! It sounded so good I bought two copies :)
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=> Kickstarter
=> Updated GALAXY Rulebook
=> (just for kicks here is the OLD=> Kaleidoscope Rulebook)
Overview (with apologies included in it):
This is the Roll and Write version of the game!
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=> Rules (rough draft)
Paula tells how much fun it was to play during a train ride:
I put together (assembled) the globes and the game is ready to play!
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=> Kickstarter
=> Pledge Manager
=> Rulebook
=> Len’s 1 page Rules Summary v1
How To Play (in less than 5 minutes):
This is a roll the dice and write on your personal map game that can be played by any number of players – just print a map for each player and all players share the same dice roll for each round (excellent for play by video chat such as with Zoom or Google Meet).
There are two different base games – GREEN and YELLOW. Both have exactly the same base game but with different special “expansion” dice (which I have never used yet).
=> GREEN edition (Board Game Geek)
=> YELLOW edition (Board Game Geek)
=> Kickstarter
=> Rule Book
=> Print your own board=> Print N Play board
Overview Explanation of the base game – she includes the GOAL CARDS, but they are not needed to play the game, and the game can be more fun without them (less thinking) Note that even experts make mistakes – she missed one error in her example of scoring a final game:
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=> Paperback Rulebook-2nd Ed
=> Paperback 1 page Rules
Expansions / Variations:
=> Paperback Unabridged Rulebook
=> Paperback 1pg Summary and Unabridged 1pg Summary
Brains on Games overview with explanations of how the cards work!!
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