I love games! Not the crappy games based off TV shows like “Survivor” or “Wheel of Fortune” but the classics and a few really good new games. I have dabbled in D&D, Car Wars, and a few other types in that category. I don’t much care for them. I like games that are easy to get “normal” people involved in. Even the Pictionary and group games like that are silly to me. So unless everyone at Christmas is a WoW playing pimple faced uber dork stick with games that appeal to the masses.
So I have excluded a lot already but I guess you can not like everything. Here is a list of great games I like and play regularly: “Pass the Pigs“, “Scrabble” on occasion, “Fill or Bust“, “Monopoly” of course, Chess, Checkers, “Jenga“, “Stratego“, Dominoes, “Skip-Bo“, “Yahtzee“, “Phase 10“, “Uno“, “Sorry“, “Aggravation“, “Battle Ship“, “Sequence“, and a some poker games like Texas Hold’Em so you will need a good chip set
But this Christmas how about a new game! Try Killer Bunnies. I have found the best place to buy this great game is Ebay. After I bought it it took me two months before I actually played the game. The instructions seemed hard and it was not the type of game I normally play. Nor was it the type of game “normal” people play. I think they describe their product better than I could so I am going to just steal from their site. I am sure they won’t mind as I am promoting their great game.
Killer Bunnies & the Quest for the Magic Carrot is a fast paced, action filled card game, in which you must try to keep as many Bunnies alive as possible, while eliminating your opponents’ Bunnies. The problem: Your opponents are armed with weapons and will stop at nothing to keep you from winning the game, which can get dreadfully vengeful, horribly nasty, hilariously messy, and just plain fun!
I have played Killer Bunnies with a bunch of different people over the past few months and most have really enjoyed the game and wanted to play again. It is a confusing game if you hate reading rules. It is a hard game to get started on. Once you have read the rules and have a grasp of the game however it is a lot of fun. When I say hard I don’t mean painfully so, I just mean you will need to read all the rules and be able to understand the English language. Mindless, pointless silly fun is what the game is all about. The best part is you never know who is going to win the game. Every strategy is as good as the next if you can even have a strategy in this game. In Monopoly you always know who is going to win 15 or 20 into the game. Once you have a little power it just keeps getting stronger. In Killer Bunnies the winner is the one who has the one random winning card (1 of 20). The whole point of the game is to have fun and be stupid, things I do well! There are nine expansion decks you can add to the game and all are fun and worth while.
The only problem I have is with the cards. The actual game cards are a little thick and not real ideal. I would like to see them make the cards out of a material more like actual playing cards, thin and crisp. The Killer Bunny cards tend to split if mistreated, like cheap baseball cards. I would also strongly recommend getting a card shuffler if you buy any expansion decks. Otherwise you have a LOT of cards to handle. I bought this one. It is a cheap peice of plastic junk that works most of the time. I am not sure a better shuffler would handle the thick cards better, and who wants to spend more that $15 on a card shuffler anyway.
Get the game and check is out if you like group games and fun!
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