The Bloody Inn
As I’m the most irregular of the St Albans gamers, I hadn’t played this game before.
Ostensibly, this was a game about
provincial French innkeepers trying to make a living during the 1800's. We were to do this by
having and keeping guests, which seemed fair enough but then by also bribing
them and/or murdering them.
The game mechanics were complicated but not
too bad compared to many of the other games I’ve been presented with, and I had
a pretty fair grasp on them as we began play.
Unfortunately, my ‘Softy Walter’
personality came to the fore again…
I was uncomfortable with the murdery aspect
of the game so decided just to try to make an honest-ish profit.
Make some money through bed and board, do a
bit of bribery and add several extensions to my hostel.
I was playing Monopoly while everyone else was playing Murder-in-the-Dark!
In the end, group generosity granted me the
win, as one of the two rules I’d failed to comprehend, should have cost me the
game.
I assumed that the francs limit would
expire at the end of the game.
Also, the ‘Key’ thing confused me a bit.
Thanks for the kindness boys.
Overall, a good game with creepy,
‘Gauguin-like’ artwork, that I’d more than happily play again.
I’d give this game:
Four, bloody thumbs ups
out of five.
:)
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| "Murder the child and bribe the fat policeman" - Great game :) |
