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GOTW – Hanabi – Belkowitz
Hi! This past week in EDL 290T, we played two games: Hanabi and Mental Blocks. I am choosing to write about Hanabi. I really enjoyed Hanabi. Hanabi is a card game. Similar to Uno cards, the cards in Hanabi have a color and a number. And similar to Solitaire, the goal of Hanabi is for…
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Game of the Week: Mental Blocks
This week, we played both Hanabi and Mental Blocks in class. Both were interesting games that required everyone’s cooperation to complete and win. As someone with little to no board game experience, this was my first time playing cooperative games since I was a young child. These two were a great introduction to the topic…
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Game of the Week Reflection 1- Ultimate Werewolf
In week one of EDL 290, we played Ultimate Werewolf. I’ve played Ultimate Werewolf before, as well as many games like it. It’s a Mafia-style Hidden Role Game, where players try to remove all hidden bad guys (in this case werewolves) from their ranks. Each night, the werewolves pick off village team players, with the…
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Reflection: Werewolf
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe may be an interesting play, but it’s also one of many secret roles in the game Ultimate Werewolf. In this game, each player is assigned a hidden role from a select list of cards. These roles may very based on player count and interest in certain aspects of the game…
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GOTW: Ultimate Werewolf Reflection
The first game that we played in our EDL 290 Class was called Ultimate Werewolf. A game similar to “Mafia” which involves making deductions using social clues, given by the other players, in an effort to win the game. As this was my first time playing such a game, it was confusing at first, but…
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Hanabi Reflection
Hanabi is a cooperative card based game where your team of pyrotechnicians is trying to make a successful firework show! Hanabi is the word for firework in Chinese and you will be trying to make a number of these by making runs of the same colored cards. The problem is nobody can look at their…
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Two Rooms and a Boom Reflection
Two Rooms and a Boom is a social game where each player will secretly get a role. Then they are divided into two rooms and the terrorists are trying to get the bomber to be in the same room as the president by the end of the game. I felt like this was a very…
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Survive! Escape From Atlantis
Survive Escape From Atlantis is one of my favorite games we played this semester! I didn’t think I was going to be a huge fan of the game because I generally dislike lighter family style games because they rely too much on luck and not enough on skill, but I really liked this games “take…
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Ultimate Werewolf Reflection
Ultimate Werewolf was the first game we played in class. It is a social deduction game where players don’t know the other players roles and the villager players need to find and kill the werewolves hidden in the village. I have played the game before and my opinion about the game did not change in…
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Small World Reflection
Small World was a game I brought in during the free game week. Small World is a fantasy war game where each faction has a special thing about them and these faction cards are paired at random with unique abilities or powers. This gives the game great replayibility because the factions will be different every…
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