2009

Mountain of Inferno is a card game that is based on one of the chapters of the famous Chinese novel Journey to the West. Overall Mountain of Inferno is a pretty average filler card game.

“Funglish” is a surprisingly fun word describing game similar to “Pictionary” but with a cool twist.

Have you ever wondered what happened to Wonderland after the Alice in Wonderland books/films? Well in the TV mini-series Alice you are taken to a Wonderland 150 years after the original material. While at times the mini-series can get bogged down in too much filler, Alice is still a very solid sci-fi mini-series.

In the wacky card game Quao you must follow the crazy rules of the dictator cow or face the punishment. Quao has some good ideas but also has a lot of issues which includes a severe lack of replayability.

A while ago I played a game called Wits and Wagers. Although not being a particularly deep game, Wits and Wagers was a lot of fun. Guesstimation tries to follow in the footsteps of Wits and Wagers. Unfortunately it fails to stand out in any way and in many ways is inferior to Wits and Wagers.

Name a color that starts with the letter Z. Be quick on your feet in order to grab the card before one of your competitors. This is a gist of what you can expect from the 2009 University Games game ASAP. ASAP is a quick to learn and play game that packs some fun into an all too familiar package.

Trivial Pursuit Steal offers some refreshing changes to a series that desperately needed some new gameplay mechanics but there are also some ill-advised ideas that don’t exactly work.

Over the years many word games have come and gone. Some of the games have been hits while others have been failures. Nab-It tries to bring something new to the genre by increasing the competitiveness between players as players try to steal words from one another. Nab-It ends up being a pretty average word game.