Game: Huzzah!

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amwiles — 2008-07-18T17:23:06+00:00

Rule Book Cover

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amwiles — 2008-07-18T17:22:13+00:00

Card back

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amwiles — 2008-07-18T17:21:36+00:00

Examples of card types

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amwiles — 2008-07-18T17:20:52+00:00

Gameboard - High Quality

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amwiles — 2008-07-18T17:20:12+00:00

Bag Front - High Quality

Thread: Session Report

kuhrusty — 2005-04-21T12:31:13+00:00

People who think this game is for Ren-Fair-goers are wrong. This game is for people who like to screw with their friends' heads.

I've had fun playing this with my brothers, and had been trying to get my friends to play this for some time, but they've been resistant because the theme is, as they put it, "gay." (Meaning "keenly alive and exuberant," of course, which really isn't their style--they prefer games where you can kill things.) But finally my whining paid off, and six of us sat down to play: me, Ray The Bastard, Alf The Bastard, Scott The Bastard, Will The Bastard, and Dan The Bastard. (None of them are related, by the way.)

After going over the rules, in the first turn I played a Huzzah! card and managed to trick my friends into bumping Richard into my stage area. 12 points for me, 0 for everyone else! Around the table, nostrils flared, eyes narrowed, mental notes were taken. And, hey, as long as they were taking notes, I figured it was an excellent time to get my end-of-game victory speeches out of the way: I was a Huzzah! master, they were unworthy to sniff my codpiece, etc. etc. (Good thing, too, because this was my high point; my score quickly dropped below 12, and never returned.)

In subsequent turns, while everyone else concentrated on attracting large crowds and converting them to points, somehow I managed to get heckled off my stage once or twice and lose my way down to 6 points. (My strategy was just too fiendishly clever & subtle for my friends to play into.)

Skipping to the end of the game, and of several friendships:

So Ray has 42 points and is on the Main Gate stage with 10 audience members. I've clawed my way back up to 11 points and am on the Glenn Stage. Richard is coming around the bend; Alf bumps him into my audience. Now, I want him in my audience, but if the other players sense that, then they'll bump him out. My stage is big enough that one bump won't do it: so I bump him once, and then point out (with just the right note of desperation) that someone else can bump him into Ray's audience.

It works perfectly: everyone laughs cruelly and refuses to bump him. But then Ray bumps him onto his own audience--not only that, but onto a space full of people, which will cost him half his audience! Clearly he played a Huzzah!, and wasn't clever enough to trick any of us into moving Richard into his audience, so he had to do it himself. This is unacceptable--the 12 points will win him the game--so I play the Bump card I had just been moaning about not having, and someone else bumps Richard again, out of Ray's audience! Ha ha haaaa!

But then Ray reveals his card: Finale, giving him 10 points and the win.

More than a win: it is total spirit-crushing humiliation. If merely winning were his goal, he would have left Richard where he was. Instead he moved Richard into his own audience, and tricked us into moving him back out. A totally unnecessary risk, done simply to break our spirits, the amusement of a diseased mind in which winning is not enough. An unbelievably excellent play, and one which I will never forgive.

I am never playing this %##!@!! game, or any other, with these %#$!@!! %#!@!$$s.

Thread: Now Available Via Download

Ravsitar — 2005-02-25T14:28:40+00:00

Thought I would post this information. While the original Huzzah! is now out of print, Cheapass Games has recently released it as a free download from their website. While I have never played the original game, I look forward to printing this up and trying it out

Link:
http://www.cheapass.com/free/games/hazzah.html

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Luke the Flaming — 2004-09-22T01:17:39+00:00

Box back of the new edition (Truant Verlag - 2004)

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Luke the Flaming — 2004-09-22T01:17:36+00:00

Box front of the new edition (Truant Verlag - 2004)

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darthcliff — 2002-09-11T12:05:35+00:00

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darthcliff — 2002-09-11T12:05:32+00:00

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darthcliff — 2002-08-22T11:22:42+00:00

Thread: Session Report

BoardGameGeek — 2002-05-07T12:01:30+00:00

Players: Elizabeth, Erin, Jeremy, Julie, Michael, Susan

Apparently we’d all had a brain-frying day, so we chose another game that didn’t require too much mental energy, either to learn or to play. I like the Cheapass line, as exposure to it and enjoyment of Kill Dr. Lucky is what led Julie and I to discover designer games a few years ago. Like the music of Rush, Dream Theater and others, it’s the early days that produce the best work, and this holds true for Cheapass, in my opinion.
Anyway, we closed a couple of stages just to tighten up the board a bit. Though everyone could still have their own stage, there would be some competition for the biggest stages. There aren’t a lot of details to note with a Huzzah! Game. Half the fun is hamming it up and saying “verily” and “forsooth” a lot and joking about an act of “kissing the stones.” Those of you who have had a Shakespeare course should know that joke behind that one. If not, you can guess it and you’d probably be right.
Everyone liked it, either for the game or for the chance to be cheesy hams. For us, the 2 are inseparable. I reached the point goal just a couple of points ahead of 2nd place, but I didn’t bother to note the actual scores.