Kids Game! Ages 4 and up (or younger with help). 15 minutes to play. Best with 3-4 players. Extremely simple. [available at I’m Board in Middleton or Sun Prairie]
Keep rolling 14 dice until you bust or choose to stop. Four burnt popcorn icons and you bust (your turn is over and you get zero points). 30 points or more wins OR roll all 14 dice with a single or double pop icon to be an INSTANT WINNER regardless of your score!
NOTE: most expansion just add complexity (not fun) … but these work well: Inns and Cathedrals // Traders and Builders // The River (or River 2) is a nice way to start the game
Analysis Paralysis and Play Time => the FIX: Draw tile at end of turn instead of start of turn
This is a game that you can setup and play in ten minutes or less. And have lots of fun the whole time. Short but sweet. A casual glance at the game makes it look like everything is just random and you just see who is lucky. However, that is not the case. Yes, you can play it fast and more or less randomly … yet you also can spend just an extra 20 seconds and see some strategies to which tile you place and how you place it! There are definitely many strategies involved with Tsuro! Many!
You can add more types of monsters yourself (on your printer)=>Set 1 / Set 2 / Set 3
This is a quick cooperative game where all players try to hold off the attacking orcs :) The game play is interesting. The game was so popular that they now make a DELUXE fancy version of the game (with miniatures).
Watch Will Wheaton (yes, he was Wesley Crusherin Star Trek: The Next Generation) explain it and play it with three guests (a comedian, an actress and a voice actor) … here is the condensed version (you can watch their FULL game video at the bottom of this page):