Other games: Fluxx, Dig & Qwixx

7/4/2020 other games

We tried a few new games over the last two weekends.  We got the Star Trek version of Fluxx, but actually, it adds annoying "Creepers" (Keepers which prevent you from winning) and it really overcomplicates what should have been a very casual and easy conversion of characters and items.

Tried a tiny game called Dig which is packaged in a pack-of-gum sized box.  Really different cute little game with inch-wide playing cards laid out as a yard with dog bowls and hidden bones.  Dig a bone and (if you don't put it back) the card from the end of the row cycles into that space ... which can move the sequence of dog bowl colors and change the values of the the bones you already played.  A cute little winner.

We played a few rounds of Quixx with Doug & Leslie and boy, from 2 to 4 players it went from being a pleasant little Yahtzee-type puzzle to a pretty vocal match of people fussing over which numbers to cross off.  Fun at both levels.

There's a Monopoly card game that works pretty well.  Play sets, play action cards to charge rents, etc.

Agatha Christie's Death on the Cards: not optimal with only two players since you start off knowing who the killer is (it's either you or not you).  But it has a fair range of action cards and things the detective cards can do, and the funny "Not So Fast" cards thta can cancel an action (including other "Not So Fast" cards).  So it's an interesting dual objective game.  The killer just tries to exhaust the deck because the bottom card is the murderer escaping and winning the hand.  While th other players try to get them to expose their Secret cards, the last of which shows that they are the murderer.  Trouble is, we figured out that the killed can just discard all 6 cards and draw 6 every hand, and exhaust the deck in about 8 plays.