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Rumble in the House

WHO STAYS IN PLACE BY BLUFFING BEST?

There are 12 rooms in the house, but it is a small house, after all, and when too many people are jostling each other in the house problems arise and the fights for position begin – can you be the one who keeps position best and manage to keep your own secret character in the house to the end?

The house is laid out any way with the 12 rooms, one character is placed into each room at random and each player is given two secret characters and 2 markers, one is placed on the scoring table.

Then you take turns until only one character is left in the house. In a turn you must take an action – either move a character that is alone in a room into an adjacent room or start a rumble in a room where there already several characters. A rumble is simply done; you pick one character and remove it from the room. Characters removed are lined up outside the house in order of their removal. When 11 characters have been taken out of the house you score points for your best-placed character, that is, the one who was removed later. Then all characters are again placed in the house, the character tiles are shuffled and given out again and a new round starts, the player with the lowest score starts. After three rounds you win with the highest score.

The rules mention bluff and deduction; bluff yes, deduction rather no, because you can only try to keep your characters out of rumbles as unobtrusively as possible – the more players the more chance-driven the game gets – but it is fun and with a bit of luck you can score well over three rounds, maybe by sacrificing one character to shield the other.

Players: 3-6

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Olivier Saffre

Artist: Kwanchai Moriya

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Flatlined Games 2011

Web: www.flatlinedgames.com

Genre: Bluff and deduction game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very good components

Compact packaging

Good as a filler or for beginners

Fun family game

Compares to:

Viva il Re and other bluff games on positions

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0