Celebrating National Game & Puzzle Week 2018: Games Adults Play pack

by Byte Staff Board games are the underrated crowd pleaser of many parties. Although the genre itself is known in the mainstream for trash like Monopoly, there are plenty of amazing board/card games that fit a whole bunch of different scenarios. To celebrate both the time of togetherness at Thanksgiving and National Game & Puzzle Week this month, we here at Byte have done short reviews for the board games we received at GenCon 2018, primarily from the publisher Games Adults Play. These games were played by a full party of people and were given a full playthrough or two for each game, depending on how much we wanted to play them.

‘Shit Happens’ is a perfectly adequate party game

by Emily Worrell

Shit Happens

‘True Colors’ is a bright and light-hearted game for any kinds of companions

by Makayla Hughes

True Colors is a game meant for friends, but it’s also really fun to play if you don’t really know the people you are playing with. The purpose of the game is simple: gather some friends, read off a scenario, and anonymously vote for people who you think would be most likely to do it. Then, put down your colored pawn on the card of how many votes you think you received: most, some, or none. The votes are then tallied and you receive points off of your answer. The concept of the game is simple, which makes it easy to focus on just having fun. Also, the mechanics of the game are easy to learn even though the instructions may seem a bit confusing. It’s best to just jump right in.

This would be a perfect game to play with friends or even acquaintances. I loved every moment playing this and will probably end up buying it to play on my own. I was unsure about it at first because the tagline is “What do your friends really think of you?” so I felt like you had to play this game with people who knew you really well. That isn’t the case, and the group I played with had a lot of fun with each other. The prompts were unique, some of them more so than others, and the rounds seemed to fly by.

By the end of each game, I was wanting to play more of it, so my only complaint is that I wish the game would last longer. That’s not too big of an issue because you can easily just continue playing and just flip the scoring sheet to the next page, which is what we did. I like how they turned a basic voting card game into something a little more. True Colors is a really fun game and highly recommend it.

‘Friend or Faux’ is best saved for the closest friends

by Tanner Kinney

True Colors , Friend or Faux really gets into the meat of trying to predict what your friends really think about scenarios and situations. The game is simple: the cards are divided into five stages, and the game is played in five rounds. Each round has each player draw a card and read off the question or scenario. Then, the other players make a guess on what the answer is. Whoever gets it right gets a point. Play continues for five rounds, with the only difference being in how personal the card get. So, say, the first stage will include cards as simple as “What’s my favorite color?”, while stage five includes pretty much e xclusively sexual questions. The game even recommends you don’t play using stages four and five if playing with more squeamish and conservative friends. Friend or Faux

“Tossed Salad” will leave you feeling poisoned

by Blake Chapman

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Images: Games Adults Play Featured Image: Photo taken by Tanner Kinney