{"id":3654,"date":"2003-12-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/2003\/12\/15\/westpark-review-spooks\/"},"modified":"2003-12-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-15T11:00:00","slug":"westpark-review-spooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/2003\/12\/15\/westpark-review-spooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Westpark Review – Spooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spooks<\/a><\/h3>\n

First there was “Mau Mau”. Then there was “Uno”, which is Mau-Mau
\nwith a different name. Now there is “Spooks”, the newest game released by Steve
\nJackson\u2026.<\/p>\n

Players are supposedly escaping a haunted house, but don’t be fooled: this is an
\nabstract card game where the only horror element is the cards that depict goblins,
\nspiders and spooks.<\/p>\n

The goal of the game is to lose all your cards. There are basically 3 suits (two of
\nthem are separated into variations, so there are red “skull” cards, and red
\n“spider” cards. Each suit has it’s own rules – when you play a blue card
\nyou have to play exactly the next higher number of the same or different suit. When you
\nplay a red card you have to match either the suit or the exact number. When you can’t
\ndo this, you either pass (when the card was blue) or something horrible happens (when the
\ncard was red). You could for example get a card from each player, or the player before
\nyou can lose a bunch of cards as a bonus. When somebody plays a green goblin card, a
\nsudden round of trick taking ensues, the gain being able to play an extra card when you
\nwin the trick.<\/p>\n

\"Spooks<\/p>\n

This is basically it – The astonishing thing is that took us several games to fully
\ngrasp the rules, as they are presented (on only 2 pages) in an extremely confusing
\nmanner. It is really a special achievement when everybody is struggling with the rules
\nand suddenly somebody says “Hey, this actually like UNO\/Mau-Mau”!<\/p>\n

As a UNO-variant this game is actually not half bad – there is some strategy involving
\nwhen to play and what cards to keep, but don’t expect anything deep (this is also
\nclearly not intended, so this is not bad per se). There are some optional rules for
\nscoring and special abilities of some cards, but the latter only increase the randomness
\nof the game – it is ok like it is!<\/p>\n

If you forget the usual extortionist price tag common for Steve Jackson this is not a
\nbad game if you look for a moderately challenging and quick card game. The card design is
\nnice and fits the theme well, and there are some laughs to be had while playing this. So
\n– don’t be spooked!<\/p>\n

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Spooks First there was “Mau Mau”. Then there was “Uno”, which is Mau-Mau with a different name. Now there is “Spooks”, the newest game released by Steve Jackson\u2026. Players are supposedly escaping a haunted house, but don’t be fooled: this is an abstract card game where the only horror element is the cards that depict … Westpark Review – Spooks<\/span> weiterlesen →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spieleabende"],"views":5,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}