Today I write about not 1, not 2, but 3 games, all under the category of zombies. The games are Zombie Dice, Bowling For Zombies!!!, and Dead Money. Let’s get started.
Zombie Dice is a game where you- 3 guesses- roll dice. You are a zombie. You want brains. Many brains. Each turn you roll the dice to determine whether or not you will get brains. You start by randomly (no peeking!) choosing 3 dice out of the container. You then proceed to roll them.There are exactly 3 results you could get, unless you’re using the expansions.
First off is brains. This means you caught the human and get to snack, if you don’t get shotgunned (more on that later). You set all the brains you roll on a turn to the side.Second is footprints. Footprints mean the human is hiding. If you choose to roll again, so as to hopefully get more brains, you will count the footprints as one of your 3 dice and reroll it.The last possibility is a shotgun. This is when it turns out that the human has a gun, and shoots you. If you are shot 3 times, you lose all brains for that turn and your turn is over.
At the end of each roll, you may choose whether you are satisfied with that turn’s roll, adding them to your total, or whether you would like to keep rolling so as to search for more brains. The goal is to be the first person to get a total of 13 or more. There is a catch, however. After somebody reaches 13, everyone else gets one more turn, a last chance to get more brains.
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Next is Bowling For Zombies. In Bowling For Zombies, you are zombies, out for a bowl. You have zombies of different levels in your hand, as well as three body parts. First, you play a zombie. This is what you have to plan carefully. You don’t want the highest card, as the strongest zombie walks away in search of a snack. You also don’t want the same zombie as someone else, as equivalent zombies rip each other up. The remaining zombies get the loot. This is where you have to be careful, for the highest level remaining zombie picks the bowling lane he wants first, with lane values varying from 1 to 9.
Then there are the body parts. If you play the head, you can collect any two bowling lanes, so long as they add up to 9 or less. The next body part is the leg, which allows you to put it in another person’s score pile, counting as a minus 1. The last is the hand. The hand allows you to discard a lane. I did find the pictures on the cards a bit disturbing.
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The last game is Dead Money. In dead money, you have many cards that you are trying to get rid of. Each card has a special ability that comes into action when you play it. Some cards require 1 hand, some 2. You may play up to 2 hands worth of cards each turn. Some cards require brains. When you draw a brain, you play it in front of you. When you play a brain-requiring card, you also roll a die. If the roll is under the number on the top corner of the card, you drop the brain and it goes to auction. This is where the numbers really kick in. You use the numbers to construct the best poker hand you can, if you want the brain. There is, as usual, a catch. Each card has a symbol with either 1 or 2 coins. If you win the poker hand, you have to draw a card for each coin on the cards you played. The first person to end their turn with no cards wins.
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place a card is the fact that the crown (the Stratego equivalent: the flag) must be on the bottom of one of the 5 piles.
