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Holiday Hijinks #4: The Cupid Crisis

Name: Holiday Hijinks #4: The Cupid Crisis
Brand: Grand Gamers Guild
SKU: GGDHH04
Price: 11.5 CAD
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Designer	Jonathan Chaffer
Publisher	Grand Gamers Guild
Players	1-4
Playtime	30-60 mins
Additional Info	345046/holiday-hijinks-4-cupid-crisis http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/345046/holiday-hijinks-4-cupid-crisis/forums/63

You just made last minute reservation plans for a romantic dinner only to find out you're in for a more puzzling experience.

The Cupid Crisis, title #4 in the Holiday Hijinks line, is an escape room style game in just 18 cards! As a group, you will solve a series of puzzles to unravel a mystery.

When you have solved a puzzle, you will enter the answer into the companion web app (compatible with all smart phones and computers) and it will check whether you are correct. If you are, the app will tell you which card or cards to take next.

The app also contains a graduated hint system, so if you get stuck you can get just a small hint about the current puzzle to get moving again without giving too much away.

Puzzles may test your perception, wordplay, and lateral thinking. English language fluency is required. Knowledge of traditional American national symbols is helpful, but that information is also provided in the app if you need it.

Most groups take about an hour to solve the game. You can write on the cards to help solve puzzles, but this is not required (or you could use penny sleeves) and the game is otherwise non-destructable. So while you can't play again yourself, you could give the used game to someone else to play.

Full Escape Room Game in a tiny package

I didn't really read much about these games going in and this one was the first in the series I tried, but I was pleasantly surprised and impressed. As a small pack of cards I didn't think there would be much to it or that it would be a full hour escape (though it took us longer). I thought these series of games would be more like 30 minutes. Plus I also didn't know they used an app as well. It was a lot of fun. The theme was strong the puzzles were pretty good except one that unfortunately didn't translate from it's original German, being a word based puzzle. But I encourage other people to check these Holiday Hijinks escapes out. They're well worth it.

Kelp: fun but a bit lopsided

My partner and I have played this a couple times from both roles and while it’s fun, it definitely feels like the odds are stacked perhaps a little too heavily against the shark. Because of this, it can be tough to convince people to play as it sort of feels like you already know who is going to win by which character you get. That said, I will still continue to play it for the challenge of trying to win with the shark…it will likely just not feature very heavily in my two player game rotation.

Tous ceux avec qui j'ai joué l'ont adoré!

Pour moi j'ai acheté les boitiers rouge et violet afin de jouer avec plus de personnes et ensuite j'ai acheté le coffret Deluxe pour l'offrir en cadeau.

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"

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