wednesday game night 03.07.07

I'm almost a week behind on my Wednesday game night report. Nevertheless, here it is short and sweet:

Game night was at Jeff's house this week. The two games on tap for the night were Rumis and Clue Museum Mystery Caper.

First up was Rumis. I thought of it as a board game version of Tetris. Here is the scoop from Boardgamegeek.com if you want more info. The basic point of the game is everyone uses a bunch of odd shaped "tetris" pieces to build on top of a template. The pieces can only reach a set height, such as four squares high. You score points by counting how many of your colored squares are showing at the top of the shape. You subtract out the pieces you couldn't use and come up with your score. There is a little more too it than that, but really a very basic game. Very easy to learn, yet with a lot of thought needed when playing. Simple, challenging and fun. This will be going on my "games to get" list.


After that we played Clue - The Great Museum Caper. This was an older game Jeff found on Ebay. Much different that the traditional Clue game. Each player takes a turn being the thief. All the other players are trying to catch the thief. The goal for the thief is to steal at least 3 paintings (or comics in this instance - nice touch Jeff!) and exit the gameboard without getting caught.

The thief marks where he/she moves each turn on a piece of paper, so the "detective" players can't actually see where the thief is. It takes a bit of guess work and hopefully catching the thief with the remote cameras you place on the board. If the detectives manage to see the thief then his game piece is put on the board. The thief then has to try to exit the map through set spots on the board. There is a lock game piece that the thief flips over to see if it is locked or open (50% chance). The best part of the game by far is being the thief. Playing with four people it did start to get a little tiring. It probably isn't too boring if you can keep the play going fast enough.



All in all a good night of board gaming!