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The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Kudos to the designers for this, it is a really nice touch. You see, the base of the box has a window revealing a set up manor house ready for you to shake and tap. If you happen to be in your friendly local game store you can even demo the game before you buy it. At the same time I would’ve loved a clear Mylar-style plastic lid to stop components from escaping from the manor house, that’s probably just me.Īll the components and boards pack away fully set up in the box. I confess this is me being slightly pernickety. The four playing boards you do have to put together yourself and the dividing walls don’t feel quite as sturdy or rigidly in place as I would like. The golden cube crates could be better, but the other components make you look at these with rose-tinted glasses! The wooden snakes, plastic spiders and everso annoying super-fast rolling eyeballs are all great too.
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The wooden explorer and ghost meeples are simply the best.
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Most of the components in Panic Mansion are impressive. Assuming you are okay with the fact you there will probably be one period of play paused while someone finds a ghost on the floor which fled from the manor with an overzealous shake from an over-excited youngling. It is one of those scarce games that is fun for adults but also one that you can actually explain to children and let them play on their own. With natural punctuation from the overturning of the cards. It is quite a frantic game, but this comes in short sharp waves. You do not ever feel like you have time to see how other people are getting on. That is as far as interaction gets though, as the shaking of the boards is very insular. Interspersed with ‘Get in the…’, ‘oh nearly…’, ‘grrrr’, ‘GAH!’ and other noises you would expect to read in the Beano. There is shaking, tapping and the occasional flying eyeball. In terms of family play, you are probably not playing on a level playing field with younger players, but you will all be having fun. The super easy rules and gameplay make this an infinitely accessible game suitable for all ages. The game is designed by Asger Harding Granerud and Daniel Skjold Pedersen, the duo behind Deep Blue and Copenhagen. Players dictate the starting places of the components for the player on the right. The winner of five of these challenges wins the game. To get the components into the various room players tap, jiggle and shake the components around the Panic Mansion. No other components are allowed to be in the room that aren’t on the card. These cards dictate which components need to be together in which one room. The game revolves around a deck of cards.
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Each player is armed with an eight room mansion, a brave explorer meeple and a host of other cool components. Panic Mansion is a dexterity game for two to four players. Anyway, enough silly musical references, you want to find out about Panic Mansion… Gameplay Another unfathomable reference for some generations. Now obviously I could’ve referenced Shakin’ Stevens in my introductory paragraph, but then that would’ve made me “Cry Just a Little Bit”. The tenuous link with the American hip-hop duo and the board game hobby can be perfectly exemplified with Panic Mansion from Blue Orange Games, especially if I could use its overseas nom de plume, Shaky Manor. The reference of a polaroid picture is probably unfathomable for some generations now. It was OutKast who sung the line “shake it like a polaroid picture”.