Bed and Board Games

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.

:)

"Murder the child and bribe the fat policeman" - Great game :)