{"id":2347,"date":"2015-12-03T20:38:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T04:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2015-12-03T20:38:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T04:38:28","slug":"board-games-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/board-games-for-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Board games for the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"
By: Declan Hertel\r\n Entertainment Editor<\/pre>\n
Families often play games at Christmas, and they are often dull. I am here to save you from the holiday gaming blues with some great, inexpensive games to bring the family together.<\/p>\n
\u201cGloom: Second Edition\u201d – For telling all-new dark Christmas stories.<\/p>\n
\u201cGloom\u201d is a fun little card game with a Tim Burton\/Edward Gorey feel, wherein you preside over a family of Victorian miscreants and deadbeats and make them as miserable as possible before sending them to the grave.<\/p>\n
Most of the fun of the game is making up stories about exactly how Lord Wellington-Smythe came to be \u201cCursed by the Queen,\u201d and then \u201cBeaten by Beggars.\u201d<\/p>\n
If your family doesn\u2019t have the dark and wicked sense of humor the game wants, try \u201cOnce Upon a Time,\u201d which has similar storytelling bits, but in the vein of fairy tales. Both are $20.<\/p>\n
\u201cForbidden Desert\u201d – For uniting the family in perilous times.<\/p>\n
Your airship has crashed while on an expedition! Rebuild it and escape before you\u2019re swallowed up by the Forbidden Desert! This cooperative exploration game demands teamwork to recover the lost parts of your vessel.<\/p>\n
Each character has a different set of abilities, and finding the best strategy to utilize them and get home safely is key to getting home, along with efficiently and quickly exploring the desert as the sandstorm rages on. No one gets left out because everyone has to help out.<\/p>\n
With planning, patience, and a little luck, you just might make it out alive. $20 – $25.
\n\u201cBang!\u201d – For when the figgy pudding hits the fan.<\/p>\n
Tensions can run high around the holidays, and sometimes you just need a good old shootout to get back on track. \u201cBang!\u201d is a card game that simulates the gun battles at high noon from old \u201cspaghetti western\u201d movies.<\/p>\n
The Sheriff and his Deputies have got to eliminate all the Outlaws and the Renegade, the Outlaws need to kill all the lawmen, and the Renegade needs to be the last man standing.<\/p>\n
The catch is: no one knows who\u2019s who. Watch carefully and take notes, because when the lead starts flying you just might catch some!<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re looking for a simpler, cheaper shootout game, you can\u2019t go wrong with \u201cPoo,\u201d wherein zoo monkeys fling poo at each other. It\u2019s quick, dirty, and a lot of fun.<\/p>\n
\u201cBang!\u201d is $25, \u201cPoo\u201d is $10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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