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9.5.2014

Nuns On The Run is hilarious. It's very very funny whether you play it as the nuns or as a naughty novice. It does need more players to make it work best. So if you have a big group, it's cracking fun. It's a very clever game design, but new players often make mistakes until they get the hang of what's going on. If you're playing with children, you might need to coach them a little on the first game. In our club, Beyond Monopoly!, Nuns On the Run gets played often, and some players will never turn it down.The game is an inverse of hunting style games like Scotland Yard. Normally in hunting games, one player moves around in secret on the board and the other players try to discover where they are and capture them.In Nuns On The Run, the players are all naughty novices running around the convent in the middle of the night. They move in secret and one player runs two nuns, who patrol the convent and try to capture the novices. Each novice has a secret wish behind a locked door that they must collect. Things like cake, or love letters or brandy. So they first have to get a key and then get their wish and then get home first to win. This is not easy to achieve in time.The player running the two nuns moves them on pathways, but if they get a clue that a novice is running around, the nuns can deviate and chase the novice. If they catch the wicked wicked child, the novice must go and get their wish again (they never lose their key after getting it). The Nuns win if they catch enough novices, or a novices fails to win after 15 turns in the game.The board shows the convent with lots of pathways between rooms and loads of numbered spaces. The novices have cards they use to show how many places they've moved, but write down their location in secret on little sheets of paper. After all the players have recorded their new position, they roll a d6 die to see if the nuns can hear any noise. The slower the novice has moved, the more is deducted from the die roll, so sometimes the novice might stand still because a nun is very very close by. If a novice's path went through the sight-line of a nun, they must declare where they're seen. So the nuns start getting clues of noises here and there, and sometimes spot a novice. With some thought and deduction, and a dose of luck, the player running the nuns can work out where some of the novices are and chase them down (the nuns can run faster than the novices!).All the players have a Blessing card too, which can be used once to move faster or make a re-roll or plant a false noise.Nuns On The Run is a very good family level game. Players do need to understand what is happening, and younger children might get bored of the thinking and planning. If the game runs to all 15 rounds, it could be two hours or more. Players always make mistakes, but I've played the game loads of times, sometimes as the nuns, sometimes as a novice, and I only win now and then as the nuns. But as a novice, you can do everything right, and still be caught by another player's blunders. The outcome is always surprising and very funny.But we play it for laughs and it really is very funny. The more you play it, the more you'll see different ways of playing. One friend just makes the nuns run as fast as possible, trying to win by covering more ground. Another player as a novice tries to sprint in a big circuit round the outside of the convent, which takes longer but is less likely to be seen.I do recommend you try this game if you have big groups to play. Also, try a practise session by yourself first, so you understand what is going on and how the different cards and patrols work. Nuns On The Run is not like the usual games most people know. It is very different and it takes a while to really grasp what's happening. But once you get it, you'll enjoy playing it again and again.Once I chased a noisy novice into the confessional box. There was another novice already hiding there too! She was livid, I was crowing, two birds with one stone!

19.10.2014

Think it is a very fun game, also with only 3 players. Easy enough to play and understand the rules, and a good layout as well.We are thinking about some sort of "shield" for the note pad foreach player, and if the Nun-player is really wathing each player he/she can see on the persons eyes/head/movements of head in which area You are - so have that in mind....

2.5.2017

Nice hidden movement hide and seek game with great components. Rules around who can be seen or heard at any time are a little fiddly. This has led to huge rows every time about who was and wasn't caught, and so the game is currently in the sin-bin in our house until further notice.

12.12.2013

Nuns on the run guarantees a evening. Being the head nuns might be hard and one of the nuns often seems to win but it is still very exiting to hunt or flee. Very accessible game which I would recommend for casual board game players.

16.2.2018

Really fun game, takes a while to get the rules sorted out but once your playing it is great. Would recommend and have recommended to family and friends.