Magic Maze

Don't let yourself get attached...

...to anything that you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.

Nominated in 2017 for the Spiel des Jahres; losing out to Kingdomino.  Magic Maze is a co-operative realtime heist game for 1-8 players.   In the game you are a band of adventurers who has lost all their stuff!  How can a Barbarian slay without Steel?  Can a Dwarf and an Elf have a orc slaying competition without an Axe and a Bow?  And our poor Mage without components you just have a nice squishy target. 

So what do you do?  You embrace your inner Mallrat, engage in some shop lifting and then try to escape the mall without getting caught.

The game features some cool game mechanics.  Because there are only 4 pawns everyone controls all the pawns.  What happens is that at the beginning of the game the starting map tile is placed on the table with the 4 pawns on it.  Chits are handed out to all the players stating what abilities they can do. Generally movement in one direction or search, teleport, move up the escalator.   

From here your goal is to search the mall for each pawn's item and then once they have it the great escape begins!  Oh did I mention you need to do this against a 3 minute timer and....in total silence?

Yes...you read that right there is no talking in this game.  You have a GIANT red pawn which you can place in front of a fellow player if you want them to do something.  Otherwise no talking, no gesturing, no grunting, no talking!  The only time you can talk is when you step onto the timer reset icon and the team can talk until someone makes the next move.

The game is designed with several scenarios to help introduce the rules to new players adding increased difficulty and mall size.  you start out with 10 tiles at the very beginning and up to 24 I believe by the time the game is run with all the rules.

In the right group this game is a lot of fun.  If anything it makes a good ending to a Game Night.

She's got a GREAT ARSE!!!