The Impossible Machine from Sandstorm
Finally, after making a few more rounds of the expo hall and tabletop gaming to catch a few more people, I camped out in one of the free play rooms with my games for a few more games. First off was The Impossible Machine from Sandstorm and Glowfly. It’s a game about making a Rube Goldberg machine, with diagrams of crazy components with plenty of marbles, dominoes, fans, and so on. You try to get as many of your machine parts into the machine as you can, but after a certain point the machine starts up and you try to keep it going as long as possible.
The Adventurers: The Pyramid of Horus from Fantasy Flight Games
Next we played The Adventurers: The Pyramid of Horus from Fantasy Flight Games. It’s a sequel to The Adventurers: The Temple of Chac, a press-your-luck Indiana Jones-style adventure game. I was a big fan of the original, and I have to say that they did a great job with this one, especially because they removed the one element I really didn’t like: player elimination. Expect a review of this one soon, but there are a lot of great mechanics and it’s a great one for people who like to toe the line between risks and rewards.
My last game before I had to head home was Nuns on the Run from Mayfair. Unfortunately I forgot to get a photo, but it’s a sort of reverse Scotland Yard. Rather than many players catching one player, you have one (or two) players trying to catch many. The novice nuns are all sneaking around the convent after hours, trying to fulfill their secret wishes, and the Abbess and Prioress are trying to catch them. It’s got some interesting mechanics but we had a few difficulties with it too. I’m hoping to get this back on the table to try it some more.
