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Sacred Rites

2021-02-16T00:20:33-05:00

Vendor: Story Machine Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 25.95

Designers	Julia Koerwer Jono Naito
Publisher	Story Machine Games
Players	3-9
Playing Time	20-30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	296892/sacred-rites http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/296892/sacred-rites/forums/63

It has come time to honor the traditions of the past. The members of our Great Society have gathered to perform the Sacred Rites this summer solstice, honoring our most divine symbols and idols.

Except for the part where not everyone remembers what they were.

To play Sacred Rites, players take on the mantles of Believers, each privately informed of the topic of a Rite. The catch: Some (or sometimes none) of the Believers are left out, making them Outsiders. Each Believer then submits what they recall of the Rite, such as the chants, the time of day, the food for the feast, or even the special shapes, smells, or colors. Once each Believer has helped remember the Rite, an accusation occurs: Can each Believer point out an Outsider? Can the Outsiders fake their way through it and guess the topic? In the end, only the most confident, creative, and devout among the Believers will be declared the winner and Master of Ceremonies of the Sacred Rites.

—description from the publisher

Danger Park

2020-12-27T00:07:02-05:00

Vendor: Story Machine Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 50.95

Designers	Jono Naito Ben Sobine
Publisher	Story Machine Games
Players	2-4
Playing Time	45 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	290722/danger-park http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/290722/danger-park/forums/63

The easy part: Build a theme park as a team and make as much money as possible.

The hard part: The theme park is a dangerous place full of mayhem, negligence, and fraud.

In Danger Park, players take turns placing rides in a collectively-built amusement park. Patrons are placed and move through the park based on ride exits, and each patron generates money for the different ride owners. Using the unique abilities of rides and park improvements, players move patrons, block exits, and most importantly, add danger in the form of vomit, pets, flooding, electrical failure, and more in order to influence die rolls. High rolls show satisfaction and keep patrons on rides. Low rolls create additional danger and force patrons out to other rides. Additionally, insurance policies can be taken to benefit from certain poor outcomes, encouraging direct sabotage for profit. When the park finally closes due to poor quality, rides closing, or patron injury, the player with the most money wins.

Take the biggest risk, snatch the biggest reward, and get away with it in Danger Park!

—description from the publisher

Rosetta: The Lost Language

2020-07-22T11:20:12-04:00

Vendor: Story Machine Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 23.95

Designer	Jono Naito
Publisher	Story Machine Games
Players	2-5
Playing Time	25 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	286770/rosetta-lost-language http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/286770/rosetta-lost-language/forums/63

Rosetta: The Lost Language is a co-operative judgement game for two or more players.

In the game, players take on the role of experts who try to understand the written language of the author, a player who represents a lost individual, community, or civilization. The author assigns meaning to an inscription that is written in a fictional script, and the experts must figure out what that meaning is. The experts choose a word as a guess, and the author translates it into the given script, informing their understanding of the writing system. This goes back and forth until the experts give a word that is translated into the original inscription. The number of guesses represents a score, with players seeking the lowest score possible.