Board Gaming - Unstable Unicorns

in #gaming6 years ago

Unstable Unicorns

This is a cute and reasonably quick game that's all about getting a number of unicorns (5 in our game) into your collection. Very simple game play. When it comes to your turn, you draw a card, and play a card. Some of the cards make you do other things, like draw more cards, or redistribute cards among the players. There's a decent amount of take that as players use cards from their hands to stop others getting too far ahead (or getting enough to win). Everything is focused around unicorns, with colourful cards and plenty of play on words. The 'cancel action' cards are 'neigh' cards, because unicorns really are horses with horns I guess. But it makes the joke even if it isn't accurate, and if the group I played with is anything to go by, the joke still works anyway.

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A selection of cards from the game

The best way of experiencing it though is really to play it. It's fun and silly, and will fill in a bit of time. It goes into the same category of games for me as Exploding Kittens, and some of the themed versions of Munchkin or Fluxx. Even with 8 players, it didn't take overly long, although one of the players finished the game with the opinion "that it was an hour they'd never get back", I don't think they entered the game in the right mood for the game they were playing. I also think it was closer to 40 minutes, and could easily have ended sooner.

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I grabbed it to try out at the gaming thing we went to (it looked brainless enough for me to manage in the state that I was in) and initially thought it would be a cute game pixie might enjoy.

As we went through the cards trying to set up, we rapidly decided it was NOT a cute game for pixie, and after a while and trying to make sense of some of the cards all of us decided we weren't in the right frame of mind to play it XD

After watching the others play a round of Sushi Go however I did decide to pick up a copy of that for the kids XP

Sushi Go (and Sushi Go Party) are certainly excellent games, and vastly superior to this in every way.

Excellent article. I really liked it. Good luck to you and Love.

Отличная статья. Мне очень понравилось. Удачи Вам и Любви

Gosh! This is interesting! I never played any computer games before, sort of always lived in my own thinking realm most of the growing up years. Now I need cute and fun entertainment!

Cheers.

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