I really need to get Die Macher–I used to have a copy of the first reprint, purged it and never managed to snag a Spielworxx Edition copy which is really an improvement.
Weimar
Wir sind das Volk
Die Macher
Would make for a good German history game … week-end.
Looks like literally Cards Against Humanity but without the baggage, where players vote for the funniest newspaper headlines that you make by stringing words together: BIGFOOT IN LOVE!
I’ve seen a lot of games broadly along the lines of “everyone makes up a thing, then you vote for the best that isn’t your own”. I haven’t yet seen one that can do anything about collusion. Sure, it’s not friendly at-table behaviour, and the me who loves Flash Point would say “surely it’s a social problem you need to fix with social measures rather than rules, like alpha players”… but it seems so obviously a thing that breaks the game.
Dammit, Tricktakers is expensive, not sure if I can justify 58 (in Australian Dollarydoos), just for a deck of cards and a couple of tokens. Yes, I know, I know, a games value isn’t just based on the physical components…
As terrible as it is, because it doesn’t involve any kind of discussion, CAH gets around this by having everyone hand over their cards to the judge who shuffles them and reads them blind.
(Though obviously you still could, but you’d be a very sad person to set up some sort of secret signal to cheat at CAH.)
I haven’t yet seen one that can do anything about collusion
It’s also vulnerable to the players who know the other players very well writing what they know that one person will find funny / best, instead of being as creative as possible or whatever the goal is.
There’s loads of other bad aspects that mean I regard the genre only as fun, brief party games, if they count as games at all. This one at least looks like it only exists to make people laugh, in a harmless “Headline from the Sunday Sport: LONDON BUS FOUND ON MOON” type way.
All right I’ll shut up after this post. When they had the headline “London bus found in Antarctica”, my mate who worked at the Kingston garage said “wouldn’t surprise me, they’ve turned up in China before”. The old Routemasters were very popular targets for thieves, both components and whole buses, because they were rock solid reliable in a way that nothing has been since.
I currently have an order for…
6x copies of Haggis (me, Norm, Roger, DJCT, Luna and Bizzle)
5x copies of Tricktakers (not Norm)
1x 535
1x Bridge City Poker
1x chips for Haggis & Tricktakers (if possible)
Anyone else want in on this? It closes on 5th October so plenty of time
My copy of Voidfall has finally arrived! I think others here have had theirs for around a month. I believe my husband and I should be able to get it setup at the very least today (we both work from home on Thursdays). We’ll see if a game actually happens or if that has to wait a day or two.
Voidfall has been punched and organized (those dials sucked!) and my husband and I have played the tutorial game. He of course won, but it was close (174 - 152). First impressions are the rule book is lacking but the game could be cool once we get our heads wrapped around it a little more.
