Pyramid Review
Mmm . . . Brains!
Published by Twilight Creations, Inc.
Designed by Reiner Knizia
Art by Dave Aikins
Layout, design, & editing by Kerry & Todd A. Breitenstein
Five specialty six-sided dice, 50 plastic brains (25 red & 25 white), five player cards in five colors, rules; full color, boxed; $15
The intentional irony of Twilight Creations' slogan "Where fun comes to life" is getting yet another workout. The company, noted for pastimes that all seem to involve zombies and various undead causing trouble for folks, has employed famed designer Reiner Knizia to create a dice game . . . that involves brains. Tasty brains. The kind of brains that make you say Mmm . . . Brains! (Emphasis theirs.)
The object of the game is to be the only corpse left with a supply of brains.
You and four other zombies have hit the mother lode: a pile of brains. Being undead, you have no table manners and fall to fighting over the tasty snacks. First you attempt to grab as many for yourself as possible, and then you try to take them from your graveyard pals. Players take turns rolling the specialty six-sided dice that come in the box as they salivate over the stack of 50 brains in the middle of the table. They (the dice, not the brains) are numbered one to five with each number in a different color -- one die, for example, has a yellow number one, a red number two, the three in green, and so on. On another die, the same colors are assigned to different . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: January 12, 2007
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