Hello everyone, I'm Hangzai. This year's board game market is actually very volatile, and in the stock market and economic environment, major publishing houses are fighting fiercely, and they have also spelled out a lot of good works with good quality and low prices.
Today I'm going to introduce this from a small original board game studio "Ming Card Craftsman", they have released two board games, the price is only 19 yuan, I doubt that they can make money, but this is not the focus of this article, I am more curious about the price is so low, what is the gameplay?
I got the "Big Bang Theory" in my hand, the size of the box is similar to the mini script killing and puzzle book, the game designer is from SHADOW, I felt that the 19 yuan spent after opening the box is too worthwhile, because it not only has a detailed rule book and rich style of cards, but also uses perfect storage and prepared a thick character background story separately, although I don't expect this box of sketch games to extend how many grand expansion packs, but it can be seen as a light novel.
In a word, at a price of 19 yuan, this material is too sufficient.
Of course, no matter how good the art and craft, it still comes back to gameplay. This is an identity reasoning game, the number of players supports 6-11 people, a game lasts 30 minutes, obviously for werewolf killing and Avalon, which is a replacement for some social interaction at any time, let's briefly go through the rules.
To put it simply, this is a murder game, according to the number of people in the game will be different rounds, the game will start with all the character cards to turn over a piece as the deceased of the game, and then randomly turn over a prop card, which represents the murder weapon as the murder weapon of the game.
Next, each player will get a character card and 2 prop cards, there are 4 kinds of prop cards (corresponding to 4 suits and numbers 1-7), if you are the largest number of the murder weapon prop cards in the game, you are the real murderer, you need to hide yourself during the game.
In addition to the real murderer, the second and third largest players in the sum of the number of murder weapon props in the game will become accomplices and followers, classified into the same camp, the real murderer and accomplices will carry out activities at night under the guidance of the host, but the followers will not be prompted identities, and can only reason about their own camp.
During the day, players will have a speech and skill activation, followed by voting for a representative, who has the power to secretly check one of a player's item cards, followed by a vote out.
The overall flow of the game is like this, players who have played identity reasoning games such as Werewolf Kill will be very easy to get started, and the whole strategy points and changes of the game are actually very many, such as the game is set up "Imprisoned Out", even if they are imprisoned out, players can still speak and vote, avoiding the game of Werewolf Kill from losing the game experience prematurely.
In addition, there are noun judgments such as "knock out" and "murder", and the overall experience and rhythm are very unique.
However, if "The Big Bang Theory" is just such a game, it is just a very low-priced werewolf killing board game, and its design team has recently developed a "3-5 people without host" version, not only the rules are more concise, but the gameplay is very good, I have often opened this variant of the rules recently, very good!
In the "3-5 people without host" version, it is still the same game setting, but the game only lasts for one day, and there is only the real murderer, and the coolest thing is that the real murderer does not know that he is the real murderer!
He needs to judge whether he is the real murderer through speech and character skills, and the truth is more confusing?
In fact, this is also "The Big Bang Truth: The Gang and the Bandits" The biggest charm is that the real murderer of each game is not determined by the identity card, but by the sum of the types and numbers of the two prop cards randomly distributed, which brings infinite changes to the game, and also adds a layer of need to guess their own identity, this mechanism is not common in board games, you think, each player gets the prop card, and when he sees the murder weapon, he will doubt whether he is the real murderer, and he has to observe whether other people are more suspicious of the real murderer, this experience is really exciting.
And this kind of reasoning is not purely based on mouth cannons, each player has character skills, the timing of the launch actually largely determines the direction of the game, in fact, a very good game point, including the investigation stage, the selected representative can view one of the players of one of the prop cards, but also the key to breaking the game, it seems that there is only one daytime discussion, in fact, there are a lot of things that can be done, but the concise rules make 3-5 people a game is only more than 10 minutes, and the reopening is full.
Finally, I recommend an official version of the "3-5 people without host" version of the board, and I recommend everyone to play:
(3-5 people bureau recommended roles: director, group president, lawyer, beauty anchor, novelist, forensic doctor, psychologist, bartender, police)
The Truth Bang Theory Collector's Edition is still crowdfunding on Modian, the accessory characters are more gorgeous, and the price is still very good, and interested friends can also learn about it :)