"Hey, Bigfoot is in my backyard!" (?)
Scribblish is a telephone-style party game where players illustrate captions and caption illustrations. The difficulty and silliness arises from trading papers so that each player illustrates someone else’s caption and captions someone else’s illustration. After a few rounds the point-scoring phase consists of trying to guess which illustration originated with your original caption. Continue reading
Guillotine is a nice little card game for 2-5 players. The setup is quick, the rules are simple, and a variety of strategies can lead to success.
As a queue of nobles marches toward the guillotine, players take turns decapitating the first noble in line. Before a player takes a noble’s head, they are given the opportunity to rearrange the queue slightly, aiming to claim high profile heads (such as Robespierre), stick their opponents with heads that will harm their reputation (such as a martyr) and spin the crowd so that the heads they have taken are worth more. Continue reading