5.8.2011

My eight year old learnt how to play this game very quickly from friends explaining to him. I read the rules which required a lot of cross referencing with other rules, re reading and evetually I drew a flow chart! So it loses a star on 'educational' for the complexity and length of the official rules if they are intended for a novice ten year old. However kids just seem to get it, it was just the grown ups that had difficulty.The game takes about an hour to play, especially when you are all learning so set time aside and a few games to get to grips with it. Once you understand what you are doing it is fiendicshly good. In fact spend an evening reading all the cards so you can get the measure of it and see what kind of stuff can happen,who can do it and when they can do it.There are simply two decks of cards, treasure and door. You are human and yourself to begin with, but may get class e.g.cleric, wizard, thief...and a race e.g. dwarf, elf, halfling.....by picking up a card that will give you the advatages and disadvatages of being that race/class. There are items which may be articles of armor, one shot potions, and cards that give you a fighting advatage. There are monsters and curses that can work for or against you depending on when they are played. You have to battle monsters to go up a level, you can buy your way up a level, and sometimes you get a lucky card. You can't buy a victory though.On a turn you Kick Down the Door, deal with what you find. You can then Go Looking for Trouble if you have a monster in your hand you think you can battle, or Loot the Room and take another card, but it might be a really big monster. You can negotiate, sell or trade items but not while you're battling a monster. The real fun starts when you can't battle a monster with your current fightin points and have to ask for help or try and run away. The negotiations on how much of a share in the treasure you get if you 'help' a fellow is very telling, and just when you think its all roses some else can lay a curse or more power on the monster and Bad Stuff happens....The winner is the one who gets up to level 10.unlike most games where adults tend to have an advatage, so either patronise the kids and let them win or take delight in beating eight year olds..., this game is level playing field. So adults beware, life experience and a PhD in rocket science will get you nowhere! Your little Halfling Thief can back stab you, curse you and steal your level! They can also help you when you need it.A brilliant game that I would recommend for a fun or possibly explosive evening or rainy day. Hell we've played it on sunny days its so good. And it doesn't matter if ltiile ones try joining in at the start then walk off after five minutes, those cards just get put back in the pile and everyone else carries on.

2.2.2015

Munchkin is a great Dungeons and Dragons parody game, full of quirky humour and adorable graphics on the cards. This is a must game for any would-be geek/nerd.(Please note that the base game can be bought without the deluxe version, it just depends if you want the extras or not.)This version of Munchkin provides the base game card deck with character cards, 6 coloured plastic character tokens and a very simple 1-10 board to illustrate game progression. As mentioned you can buy it without the board or extras but play is a little more straight forward with them. There is space in the box to add in expansions but it could get messy.

16.1.2014

There is an old board game, that is back out for buying, called Dungeon, made originally by TSR and now sold by Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast. It is a simple game of players going around a dungeon, kicking in doors, facing monsters and if victorious winning their treasure. The first to reach a certain amount of treasure, dictated by their class, and return to the great hall at the centre where all the players start, wins the game. The game is not co-operative, but neither can the players do anything to impede or harm the other players. Its a race to the finish. The game is designed for younger players but for the whole family to get a taste of dungeoneering.Why do I bring this game up?

25.9.2007

This is a card game that pokes fun at Dungeons and Dragons and similar role-playing games. The game takes the format of a dungeon crawl where you bash down a door by turning over a 'Door' card to reveal a monster, curse or other cards you can play. And with the slaying of monsters, you gain treasure by turning over 'Treasure' cards which are usually helpful items such as 'Sneaky Bastard Sword' or 'Yuppie Water' for elves. You have cards that allow you to be various character classes such as cleric, thief, wizard or warrior, as well as races such as elf, halfling or dwarf, each with their special abilities. Your gender also has an effect too, as the Amazon will not fight female players,

10.11.2010

Back when I was a kid, everyone played cards. Texas Hold 'Em, Magic: the Gathering, Pokémon, you name it. Then came Munchkin. Within two weeks, we'd gone from curious about a card game that apparently took the mickey out of every single fantasy novel, RPG and tabletop game in existence, to completely hooked. We played loads, and I personally owned a copy of the great-but-less-fantastical Munchkin Fu within the year.Fast-forward a good seven or eight years, and I'm about to go on holiday. We're taking a few things to do, and Munchkin had popped back up in my Amazon surfing habits recently. I went for it, and could not stop talking about the thing until it arrived. At which point,

21.9.2016

This is a fun little game for 3+ players, based on drawing and playing cards to defeat monsters and move through a dungeon. Cards you draw may be monsters, items which you can use to buff your character, cards which change certain aspects of your character (race, sex, class), or curses which can bring negative effects to you or others. There are some quite fun elements whereby during your turn, other players can help you (in exchange for some of the loot gained from defeating a monster) or hinder you (by doing things such as applying curses to you, adding extra monsters for you to fight). Overall it's a fun game which generally takes less than an hour to play.

12.6.2015

Great fun.I picked this up after purchasing Munchkin Quest and finding that a little difficult to get going (rules wise) and long running (3-4 hours a game). Munchkin is the polar opposite.With pretty much two sheets of rules, you're up and running very quality. The basic concepts of the game are easy to grasp and crucially the turns move very quickly - whereas munchkin quest could leave the other players sitting around twiddling their thumbs for an age. Artwork and flavour text of the game is great and amusing after multiple play throughs.A core concept of munchkin is 'doing over the other players' by 'being a munchkin'. In this game it feels part and parcel of the system, expected.

6.2.2017

Our family loves board games - We usually default to Monopoly/Scrabble/Life etc - However, as my partner and I both love D&D and play RPG's online, we wanted to find something that would suit the whole family and was easy to play. We welcomed Munchkin to our family games night with open arms. A friend brought this game over one evening and 8 of us comfortably played for over 2 hours.For those who are not used to an RPG format (i.e. my OAP mother), it did take a few rounds to get into the swing of things, but once she started winning, she had no issues! The deluxe set includes a board to keep track of everyone's level, and handy counters so you can keep track of your gender too.

8.8.2016

My kids are 12 and 9 and I've been looking at this game for a while after seeing it on Will Wheaton's Tabletop YouTube show. I was worried my kids were too young and it would be too complicated and when we first tried it, it seemed that was the case. We still had a fun first game though and I put a bit of effort into reading the rules through properly and played a couple of practice hands.The next time I played with the kids was much better - I think you pick up quite a bit each time you play and by the 3/4 game we were feeling like experts, moaning as we pulled the duck of doom card that we know means we drop 2 levels and thrilled if we grab the doppelgänger card that doubles our combat strength.We've had this game about a week and played it 2/3 times a day.

31.8.2013

There are already so many reviews of this game all over the Internet that I don't feel the need to embellish on them any more. As the title of my review suggests, this is a fantastically fun game, with plenty of silly moments of humour to keep you and your friends amused. However, all it takes is one person to get annoyed by the cards they are getting, and all of the sudden the worst will come out in you and you'll thoroughly enjoy putting them through the worst game they've ever played. Be careful of this, because this is a game you want people to come back to, and whilst it is supposed to be back-handed and unfair, it's also supposed to be light and fun. Gamers too often forget this,

5.7.2012

My friends and I were always interested in the RPG genre and we finally decided to take the plunge and look for a table top game. After searching for a while I stumbled upon munchkin. This seemed to meet our demands. Nobody of us really has much time where we can meet so the game can't take too long: check! Every game we played was about 1 hour long. Is the game easy to learn? Yes, pretty much. Once you can get going you really start to get the hang out of it.You need a fine balance between helping your friends and betraying them. You might need help to get to victory and level up, but you also need to prevent that your friends reach level 10. I remember that my friend was fighting a monster and I absolutely didn't want him to win.

11.1.2015

Wow. I mean just wow. So simple as a concept, but executed brilliantly. Munchkin is super addictive, it if all depends on the group you play with. I wouldn't play this with anyone serious, lest the fun of the game is taken away - Munchkin is about as unserious as it gets with card games bar CHA.You are a munchkin, a D&D term for a player who only looks out for themselves and tries to take all of the loot for themselves. In this game, you do exactly that: You are a human with no class meandering around a dungeon UNTIL YOU KICK DOWN THE DOOR and find that there's nothing there except a curse that makes you change gender,

18.8.2013

I bought this after playing a few games of Munchkin using just the original (deluxe) set, and can safely say that this set really, really should be included with the original. Don't get me wrong, the original set is fine, great fun and perfectly playable on its own, but this set really does up the level of fun. Included in this set are enough extra treasure and door cards that you won't need to worry about running out on a 3-4 player game. Because of these extra cards, you'll find you have a lot more items to play with, and a lot more variety in terms of monsters, enhancers and curses to play against each other.This set also works out some of the kinks in the original game (it makes everything a bit more balanced and as such,

27.10.2012

A bunch of great cards for your Munchkin game. Remember that you'll need the standard base game and that this isn't a separate game. Personally I feel that you need at least one expansion (like Unnatural Axe) to get the most out of Munchkin. That's just what my friends and I have for our weekly games (Munchkin + Unnatural Axe). There's enough variation to keep everything feeling fresh, and the card pile doesn't look too high. I'd even consider throwing one more expansion in.The cards themselves are brilliant, and funny too, with a new race: the Orc. This race allows you to dodge the effect of a player inflicted curse at the cost of one level (and there's also another minor effect of the Orc that I'll leave out).

10.2.2016

Fun, great with friends and pretty easy to play when you get the gist. Unfortunately getting the gist is not as easy as you might expect as the in-box instructions are some the worst written I've ever seen! Stupidly difficult to garner a clear explanation of the in-game rules.Luckily, the online instruction is way more helpful: [...] You can find other written versions online too and game play vids by players.Turn-based play involving 'kicking down the door' to find monster, curse cards etc, and winning treasure cards by beating monsters or looting the empty room. Friends can choose to help you defeat a monster in exchange for treasure or attempt to stop you achieving the winning level by adding more monsters,

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