Thursday, February 4, 2010

Betrayal at House on the Hill


2007, 25

This board game is brilliant! It has so many tricksy, exciting elements. One is that you build the playing board as you go, drawing and laying down tiles to represent rooms of the house, so it can be different each time you play.


Another is how it is split into 2 phases...the haunting and pre-haunting, and how each time you find a new omen, the likelihood of the haunting becomes greater and greater. It makes each haunting roll more and more intense and exciting.


Lastly, the post-haunting game play can be vastly different each time, depending on a variety of circumstances (the omen that triggered the haunting, the room you found it in, which character found it, etc.) Plus, any game that has a traitor is fine by me.


To sum it up, it is extremely versatile and has great replay value!

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