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Steph (468 KP) rated Betrayal at House on the Hill in Tabletop Games

Jul 19, 2018

Betrayal at House on the Hill

2004 | Adventure, Exploration, Horror, Miniatures

6

8.3

(56 Ratings)

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A lot of people I know really like this game, but I am not a big fan. I've played it four or five times- I keep giving it another chance and I just don't think it deserves one. The good thing is it has a lot of replayability with all of the different scenarios. The bad- this game has a LOT of down time. When it isn't your turn, it is incredibly boring. There's not a lot of big decisions or thought to even be made on your turn, so you have about 30 seconds of doing something interesting and then 10-15 minutes of waiting around before it's your turn again (especially if people haven't played before). The game is very high variance- it really depends on a lot of random elements. It is the randomness more than anything you actually strategize during the game to do that determines what happens in the end. It's a really simple semi-cooperative board game. If you are newer to board games and want to play something simple, I would recommend it. If you're expecting a challenging horror board game with a traitor mechanic, I really would not.

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Akward (448 KP) Jul 20, 2018

I completely agree with what you've said. I honestly view it as a gateway game between Catan and more complicated games. Our group played it religiously for a few months, and I will say that it did get better with a more experienced group. After a short while, the turns could be done in 2-3 minutes (even with a 6 player group), so there was much less downtime. But there's no way around the fact that it is poorly balanced, which is ultimately what turned our group off.

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BobbiesDustyPages (1259 KP) rated The Strain in Books

Jul 23, 2017

The Strain

Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan | 2009 | Fiction & Poetry

7

8.6

(17 Ratings)

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The vamps are a lot like zombies which is really cool (0 more)

the first 30% is a bit slow (0 more)

A bit slow but then it sinks it's teeth it.

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Moonshine (36 KP) rated 20/20 Experience by Justin Timberlake in Music

Sep 1, 2017

Good beat to all songs (1 more)

Appeals to a lot of people

Had to wait too long for new music (1 more)

The album cover doesn't have much colour

Timberlake tracks

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Andy K (10823 KP) created a post in My bucket list

Apr 20, 2018

A lot of people said learn to play the piano is on their bucket list. Is this one you would like to tackle?

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Jennifer Daniell (108 KP) Apr 22, 2018

I would like to learn piano and perhaps violin/fiddle. My twelve year old niece is currently playing Violin and French Horn and will be starting Trumpet next fall.

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