Urban Myth tries to create a board game around some of the more interesting urban legends. The thing I liked most about the game is the trivia questions themselves. The basic premise behind the game has promise. I think a trivia game where players need to determine fact from fiction is a good start. While playing the game I had some fun trying to determine if the statement was true or a myth. I was actually surprised several times when something I thought was true was in fact false and vice versa.
The game includes over 1, questions so that is nice as well. I could actually see using the cards for a trivia night. Unfortunately the trivia cards themselves are the only saving grace for Urban Myth since the game otherwise has some pretty big issues. This is quite annoying since the charm of the game is to learn more about these urban myths. If you want to know the whole story you essentially need to have your computer on hand in order to look things up for more clarification.
There were actually a couple cards that we disputed the accuracy of and had to look up on the internet to get all of the facts. The cards that have two question also have an issue that a majority of the cards have one truth and one myth on each card. This presents a pretty big issue. After the answer to the first question is revealed, unless you know the answer for sure you might as well guess the opposite for the other question since you will usually be correct.
The two question cards should have had an equal distribution of two myths, two truths, and one myth one truth cards. Without this equal distribution you can break the spirit of the game by essentially always going with the opposite answer of the previous question.
The trivia cards have their own issues but they are nowhere near as bad as some of the gameplay issues. Simply put the gameboard itself is just plain stupid. The gameboard adds unnecessary luck and is a total waste of time and space. The game would have been better off just being a normal trivia game where players received points based on how many questions they got right. The game instead decides to have you move around the gameboard with each correct answer.
Moving around the board is pretty pointless though since you have no control over which spot you end up on and you have no idea which category the next question will be in. It's a trivia game based on urban legends we've all heard of and or familiar with such as the alligator in the NYC sewer or Al Capone was the 1st American to make M a year. The board is divided into 4 city block with a starting point in the middle.
The game rules want you to start the game with the youngest person and go left from there. In our house we flip a coin for who goes first and go clockwise from there, and of course the winner of that round starts the next game.
The Reader picks one card from the deck remember to shuffle the cards and announces the category then only reads the statement. Everyone else puts the voting card on the table with the response side of your choice facing up. The trick to all this is you have to keep your response secret from the other players, so, we just put our hands on top of the cards till it was time to show. The Reader makes everyone show their cards and reads the answer along with the fact. The players who get a correct answer can move to one spot into any of the four city blocks clockwise or if no one gets a correct answer, the reader can keep the card if his token is in that category square and he gets to move the amount of spaces for each player playing.
The player to the left repeats the process as the reader and continues till the games ends. Now, in order to win you have spell out M-Y-T-H or T-R-U-E which may seem easy but it all comes down to paying attention to where you game piece is and what category is being read on the card.
If they match and you get the correct answer you not only get to move ahead one piece you get the card with that letter on it. If you happen to be on one of the Wild Squares you can win the card no matter the category as long as you get the answer right. But you only get one chance, win or lose, you have to leave the wild square before the next card is drawn.
It actually goes by very quickly so you can get quite a few rounds in and with cards it makes the game really interesting. It's really quite interesting to find out that fact is usually stranger than fiction. The game also has a way of evening out the playing field; we all have that friend who knows all the random facts, well, the way this is set up, even an average player can win as long as he has a little luck.
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