Game: Man-Eater

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f-p-p-m — 2006-03-22T10:20:38+00:00

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f-p-p-m — 2006-03-22T10:20:30+00:00

Thread: Session Report

Shade_Jon — 2006-03-19T08:19:07+00:00

Nate (shark) 6, Guy 6. Brendan 0

Guy (shark) 6, Brendan 3, Nate 3

Brendan had sent me a magazine that he writes every month. The magazine details a long travellogue, and also contains several pages of updates of games being played by actual snail mail, this being one of them.

I still don't see much point in it. The shark can basically choose who to pick on, and then the other players get a free ride. Once the shark is on you, there is not much hope of shaking him off. Anyway, they seemed to enjoy it.

Brendan adds:

Silly, but fun. see my zine for a postal game, where 3 games are played simultaneously, to enable everyone to play the shark, and so even it all out.

Thread: maneater review

freezing chicken — 2006-03-03T09:26:02+00:00

Maneater is a silly sick game. One player is playing the shark that is enjoying eating the swimmers that are trying to reach safely to the shore that is in the other side of the board. So actually the swimmers are trying to avoid the shark. Although there is an interesting element here swimmers also want to block other swimmers so the shark will be able to eat them because they want to win. If they’ll be the only ones that reach to the shore they’ll be the ones that win.

At the start each player gets 1 or 2 swimmers (2 if playing 2-3 1 if 4-5) except for one that gets the shark. The swimmers are placed at the opposite side of the board to the shore. The shark is placed in the middle. Now the game begins!

Each turn is divided into 3 phases.
Phase 1) the shark writes down where he wants to move. Thus the swimmers don't know where he'll move and he doesn’t know where the swimmers will move. Just add some balancing issue. The shark may move up to 4 hexes.

Phase 2) now the swimmers are allowed to move. If playing 3 players first players moves his first swimmer, second player moves his first swimmer, first players move his second swimmer and second player moves his second swimmer. So swimmers move 1 by one. There are few rules about moving. 1. Swimmers may move up to the numbers of legs they have. They start with 2 legs but the shark might it 1 or 2 legs (see later). If there are no legs left to a swimmer he just keeps moving one space forward. 2. Swimmers must move 3. Swimmers can't get through rocks. 3. Swimmers may move into the little shores were the shark may not move to. They must, though, leave the shore next turn. 4. If swimmers land on the fishes that are printed at phase 3 they roll dice.

Phase 3) now it's time for eating and rolling! If a swimmer landed on one of the red fishes he roll die. Each number that is rolled give different event but 1, 2 and 3 are good for swimmers in all and 4, 5 and 6 are bad. After that if the shark land on a hex that touches hex that contains a swimmers take of one of the swimmer's legs. If the shark land on a hex that has a swimmer in it the swimmer is dead. There is one rule though. The shark may never attack the same swimmer twice.

Game end: at the end of the game for each swimmer that is dead the shark gets 3 points. For each swimmer of the player that reached the shore the player gets 3 points. The winner is the player with most points.

In all the game is quite fun. Has luck involved but strategy too. I played the game twice but it's a good game to fill open time.

Thread: Session Report

Shade_Jon — 2006-01-26T08:12:15+00:00

Brendan (shark) 6, David 3, Nadine 3, Jon 0, Elijah 0

While waiting for numbers 6 and 7 we tried another game brought by Brendan. In this game, one player plays the shark and the other the four swimmers who have to reach shore. Played on a hexagonal board with impassable reefs and safe bouys, each round consists of the shark player secretly writing to which hex he intends to travel (up to four spaces), followed by the players moving up to two spaces each. If the shark ends up next to a player, the player loses a leg: three losses and you're out. If the shark lands on the player, the player is out immediately.

A few other fancy spaces allow you to roll dice for special events, like tides or scrape your leg, but that's about it. It is kind of a problematic game, because the shark goes after one person, leaving the other three basically safe to swim to shore, unless one of them has bad luck, which one did. So two of the players got to shore without having done anything. I was attacked and found it fun to try to second guess Brendan as to where he thought I was going, but one mistake and you're toast. Elijah had bad luck and got a leg cut off, which ended his game, after the other two were already on shore.

Eh.

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fredd — 2003-03-25T16:27:53+00:00

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