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adamxt
Very fun and sort of miraculous when it works! We have never played with more than two people. We did actually manage to win...and then the desire to play again faded, at least for the moment. A worthwhile game!
Aazon23
I always have a good time playing The Mind. It's a quick teach and goes over well with gamers and non-gamers. Just just try and play the cards in your hands from 1-100 without saying a word. Great filler. One con is that it tends to lead to some player vs player arguments/criticism.
143245
A game (because it does fit the attributes needed to be a game), that while not complex or with a large decision tree (it's do I play a card or not) forces a dizzying massive calculation against time for that single question. It bends the fabric of social interactions and social contracts in an weird way (and that's a high point in my book); one of a couple focal points is "what pace does this group want to operate at?" If you get out of sync, the game comes crashing down, if you can stay in sync long enough to get to the end, it's exhilarating in ways that few games can achieve. Initial rating is a 7 or 8, but I can see this crashing down after a while... Not a game that I expect staying power from, but in that regard, it's also priced accordingly. edit: yeah, rating has dropped to a 6. I think it's best in two conditions; a 2p game, and a 5+ player game. Still can create magical moments like two people racing to play a card and finding out they are merely 1 or 2 away from each other *and succeeding* but it's less interesting over time. edit2: Dropped to a 5. After 15 games or so, we almost never request to play it anymore. There is exactly two occasions where I would bring this out now; it's the end of a night and we've all been drinking and there is conversational stimulus while we play with 5 or 6 players (and estimate how the game would scale accordingly). Second, when I'm with someone new (as a 2p game) who likes weird stuff. Really though, it's the former scenario.