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5 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN
Halloween is fast approaching and all across the land gamers
are gathering together in lighted rooms to keep the darkness outside at bay. Armed
with sweets to keep any trick or treat gremlins (as well as their own stomachs)
happy, the gamers gather together a
selection of suitably spooky games to kill the hours until daylight breaks and
the ghosts and ghouls retreat for another year…
With that in our minds we thought we’d share some suitably
themed Halloween games that you might be playing this coming Saturday in ‘5
Days of Halloween’…
DAY 1 – GEISTESBLITZ
Geistesblitz is a quick, fun, activity game for ages 8+ by
German publishers Zoch. Zoch have a reputation for making good quality games
with lots of very nice wooden components and Geistesblitz is no different.
In this pocket-sized box you get five different wooden
objects – a Green Bottle, a Red Chair, a Blue Book, a Grey Mouse and a White
Ghost and a deck of cards. Each card will show two objects – with one, or both,
of the objects coloured differently to the actual physical object sitting on
the table in front of you. If both objects are the wrong colour – say a green
book and a red ghost – then you’re looking for the object and colour not shown
on the card and be the quickest player to grab that object from the table. In
this case it would be the Grey Mouse. If you were the first player to grab the
Grey Mouse then you get to keep the card as a Victory Point. If you, however, grabbed
the wrong object (say the Blue Book) then you have to pay a forfeit of a card
in your stash (if you have one) which gets discarded and placed at the bottom
of the card deck. Everyone can only make one ‘grab’ a turn so if the first
person gets it wrong they can’t then grab the correct item – they have to just
watch agonizingly as someone else makes the correct choice and scores the
point.
The other possible combination on a card would show one correct
item (for instance a White Ghost) and one incorrect item (for instance a Blue
Bottle). In this instance you will want to be the first to grab the White Ghost
to win the point.
Geistesblitz is a fast and furiously paced game, not to be
played with any witches (or anyone else who may have long fingernails…) which
is a great Halloween filler.
Two versions of the game are currently available –
Geistesblitz and Geistesblitz 2.0. Each are completely stand alone games
although Geistesblitz 2.0 does have rules for a ‘mega’ game you can play
combining both sets. Geistesblitz 2.0 comes with a Green frog, Red Towel, White
Ghostess, Grey Tub and a Blue Brush. Each individual game can usually comfortably
be played in under 30 minutes so makes a perfect Halloween filler…
Buy Geistesbltiz : http://www.boardgameguru.co.uk/geistesblitz-11922-p.asp
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