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The Game Changers

Wild Cards or secret saboteur

Who has not yet sat at the games table and wished that he could magic up a rule that would shift game flow in his favor or make the game more fun or give him a chance to take his turn before his right neighbor for once. Well, for those occasion you could use The Game Changers – 80 cards offer ten options to modify a game or interfere with it: 1. Change the flow of the game with Wild Cards, for instance changing the last action that you did before taking the next one. 2. Add/remove victory points sources by assigning cards to game elements. 3. Add hidden goals, with or without rewards from additional victory points and other bonuses. 4. Cheating – if you are caught you receive a Red Card, and you are either not allowed to cheat anymore or are out of the game. 5. Change play from competitive to cooperative, all need to work together to achieve a given goal. 6. Add a hidden saboteur, his faction wins if in any of the final scoring positions. 7. Bet on the final results of the game. 8. Change your position at the table to take over the other player’s position on the board, his score etc. 9. And 10. Add some fun: for instance, give people animal pet names or have the current leader sing a song – all just for fun, without influencing the game flow or its outcome.

All in all, a fun and cute idea, albeit not suitable for all types of players or games; but it should be fun to try it out. Some modules can be combined and for some there are two versions, for a friendly way to play or for a challenge, for instance in Option 5, when all have to cooperate to have a player with the respective card achieve third place as demanded by the card.

Players: 2-25

Age: 8+

Time: variable

Designer: Frank Quispel

Artist: Loïc Biliau

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Quined Games 2018

Web: www.quined.nl

Genre: Game modification

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Cute idea

Not for all groups of gamers

Can be fun to try

Compares to:

First game of its kind

Other editions:

Currently none

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