Format Games | SKU: NG0921

Noggin

Name: Noggin
Brand: Format Games
SKU: NG0921
Price: 16.95 CAD
Availability: InStock

$16.95 CAD

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Designer	Matt Edmondson
Publisher	Format Games
Players	3-99
Playtime	10 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	365235/noggin http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/365235/noggin/forums/63

In Noggin, players take turns dealing their cards — a combination of letter cards and action cards — equally on three piles. When an action card appears, the other two piles will have letter cards on top, and the action card tells you how to use the two visible letters to create an answer, ideally as quickly as you can!

For example, the letters M and A combined with a "Describe" action card could be answered with "Amazing Magician", whereas a "Name Initial" card might prompt you to say "Muhammed Ali". If you give an answer first that your playing partners agree is credible, you keep that action card. Whoever collects the most action cards wins.

Great game!

A great shedding game where you play poker hands and power cards.

Nightfall Lite but Not Nightfall 2.0

If you liked Nightfall, but thought individual creature combat was too tedious? You'll probably like this.

If you liked Nightfall but thought the game was too slow to ramp up, or too long to finish/hand out all wounds, you'll like this.

If you thought Nightfall's "Private Archive" claims ended to overpower the game based on luck of the draw, you'll like Unchained's 3x3 market grid.
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As far as deck builders go, I like Unchained. It will take awhile to really know the card power combos. The symbols look overwhelming at first, but are kind of intuitive once you're used to how the cards work. Combat is total offense vs total defense and result is one fatigue (wound). So no MTG-ish "creature 1 attacks player B and creature 2 takes 3 wounds against player C." It does speed up and simplify the game a lot. The 3x3 card market is brilliant. You can get cards you want and/or clear out cards you don't want your opponents to get. Much more variety of cards to cycle through than 8+2 archives = 10 cards to choose from per game.

Solid 4/5 all around. I'd give 5/5 if there was a happy medium in combat between Nightfall and Unchained. Not as super simplified as Unchained, but not like Nightfall's individual cards combat. Maybe a power on some cards "stays in play after combat" so there's a larger chance of different strategies than "I punch you, you punch me, repeat"

Funbrick Series - Viking See-Saw (Import)

I never got the game

Darkest Dungeon

I ordered this 2 weeks ago and still did not even receive it before it asks me to review this.

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