Big Potato Ghost Blitz: Spookiest Family Board Game for Kids | Best Halloween Games

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One object on the card is colored incorrectly; therefore players must be the first to grab the correct colored object. For the second card you would grab the Green Bottle. Since both objects are miss-colored, the green bottle is the only object not represented on the card (neither green nor a bottle is shown on the card)

If an object matches both color and object, that is the object indicated. (Example: A red book and a white ghost. The card indicates the white ghost.) If both objects are colored incorrectly – say, a green ghost and a red mouse – then you look for the object and color not represented among the four details shown. In this case you see green, red, ghost and mouse, so players need to grab the blue book.

I. Variant: Grab The Items

Each card will have two of the following items: a ghost, a bottle, a chair, a mouse, or a book. Each item depicted on the card will be one of five colours: white, green, red, grey, or blue. Recall that there are five game pieces: a white ghost, a green bottle, a red chair, a grey mouse, and a blue book. If the revealed card had a blue book and a red ghost, for example, then you would grab the blue book as it accurately depicts one of the five game pieces. Example: This card shows a blue GHOST and a red MOUSE. But there is no blue ghost and no red mouse. Ghost Blitz Board Game requires lightning-fast reactions as you compete against 2-8 players to help Balduin the Ghost find his missing items. All players will be in reach of the five wooden objects: a white ghost, a green bottle, a grey mouse, a red chair and a blue book. Hands dart out trying to grab the correct wooden object. The first player with the correct object in hand gets to keep that overturned card. You only get one guess, touch the wrong item you must give up a card to the first player who snagged the wooden object correctly. If you grab the right item, you lay down the turned-over card in front of you as a reward, and then turn over the next card.

This is the kind of game that makes me wonder which came first, the theme or the mechanic. Hopefully it was the mechanic because the storyline seems disjointed, concocted over too much German lager perhaps? Maybe we’re just missing something in the English translation.While I have stated repeatedly that children will love Ghost Blitz, I also want to reiterate that adults will enjoy it too. Even without children present a group of friends can have a lot of fun with this dexterity game. In fact, there is a rule variant wherein you shout out the correct piece instead of grabbing it IF there is a book present on the card. This advanced form of play creates another challenge. Balduin, the house ghost, found an old camera in the castle cellar. Immediately he photographed everything that he loves to make disappear when he is haunting ... including himself, of course.

If you are the first to grab the correct object you take the card and add it to your collection. But if you hurriedly grab the wrong piece then you not only lose the card everyone was vying for but you must also sacrifice one card from your collection and give it to the player who grabbed the correct piece. If you have no cards to give then nothing extraordinary happens. Have you played Geistes Blitz? Let me know in the comments, this is definitely a game that we will play in years to come. The player who has grabbed the right item or, respectively, shouted out its correct name, gets this card / these cards. Now you have to grab the (green) BOTTLE, because neither the bottle nor the color green can be seen on the card.Finally, when you feel / think you’ve mastered the regular edition you can move on to Ghost Blitz 2.0 and finally Ghost Blitz 5 to 12. With both of these adding more ifs and buts to the ruleset that are sure to make you rethink once, twice or more which item to grab, or at times shout out. In the basic rules the wooden objects are laid out. A card is turned over so that everyone can read it. The card will show two of the wooden objects after which one of two scenarios will play out: And that’s one of the great things about this game: even good players slip up. I’m pretty decent at the game (at least among those I’ve played with–I’ve yet to test my skills at a convention), but there are still rounds where I grab the wrong object, or I sit for a full twenty seconds to determine what object the upturned card is asking for while another player beats me to it. My niece and nephew don’t often beat me on the draw, but when they do, victory is that much sweeter. In this case, then you grab that item that is not depicted and whose original color is not shown on the card.