Japan through my eyes

Once upon a time, there were games that supposedly used your imagination and story telling skills...but they were...meh! Upon watching The Dice Tower's review of Dixit, I thought I should see what the hype was all about.  The hype was worth it! I brought out this game with my newly formed gaming group of non gamers & gamer friends and it was quite a hit.  I thought that I would be quite good at this game then found out it was the opposite.  I'm too obvious!  Too predictable!  Too easy to read!  May I never play in a professional poker tournament. Game Play in a Nutshell: The game takes up to 6 players.  You can play with 3 players, and that seemed to work quite well in my group.  Everyone chooses a color and get's their voting tokens and wooden rabbit scoring piece.  They get dealt 6 cards each.  The storyteller chooses 1 card and says a word/sentence/question/makes a gesture about that card.  The other players choose a c...

After reading and watching reviews about this game, I was hyped up and wanted to own a copy of it.  I tracked down a copy on Amazon Japan, and clicked purchase.  But I wasn't able to bring it to the gaming table.  I wasn't sure how receptive my friends would be of this "tunnel laying" game.  The idea of just laying down tiles to form a path to the gold, gave me the impressions of Waterworks or a game of Dominos.  Didn't seem as fun as what the reviews made it out to be. Boy was I wrong. After about 4 months of this game sitting on my shelf, and almost getting it played a couple of times, I finally played it with the Northside Gamers.  We played with 4 players, and it was a lot of fun.  It did remind me of Werewolf with the hidden Saboteur role.  I was secretly hoping I would be a saboteur (I love playing the baddie) and luckily I was able to play one in one of the 3 rounds. Game Play in a Nutshell: The game plays quickly over 3 rounds. ...