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GOTW: Mechanics (Mysterium)
Class Date: 2/5/2026 This week’s class included a presentation on game mechanics. We defined game mechanics as the tools/actions game designers provide players to interact with their game. Some mechanics that we have seen previously in Ultimate Werewolf include, player elimination, hidden roles, deduction, variable player powers, and voting. After the presentation on game mechanics,…
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Mysterium Reflection
The game we played in class was Mysterium. This has been my favorite game so far. I played as one of the psychics. I really enjoyed trying to figure out what the ghost was thinking about when they selected the vision cards. Often the things that stood out in the vision cards to me was…
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Mysterium Game Reflection
This past week we played Mysterium in class. In my opinion the hardest part of the game was deciphering the ghosts clues as they were very abstract. This pertains to leadership as we had to go outside of our own minds and imagine what someone else may be thinking. The first thing I would notice…
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Managing The Mysteries of Mysterium
This week we played the game Mysterium and generally, I really enjoyed this game. Two of my favorite games are Codenames and Clue, so I love how similar this game relates to both. The only thing I would change about this game to match those of the others is the cooperative aspect. I like that…
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Game of the Week Reflection: Mysterium
Mysterium is my favorite cooperative game that I’ve played so far in this class. After messing around with Ultimate Werewolf the first week and Pandemic the next one, there’s something different about mysterium, and the uniqueness is capitalized in the cooperative experience. Players aren’t forced to communicate which is something I felt when playing Ultimate…
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Mysterium: A Class Reflection
This week in Tabletop Games and Leadership, we played Mysterium. I had never played Mysterium before. However, I found it to remind me of Clue and Dixit. Both of which are games I have played before. I really enjoyed this game and think I will be buying it as a Christmas gift for at least…
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Game of the Week Blog Reflection 3: Mysterium
In this class I played Mysterium for the first time. The hardest part of the game was trying to figure out the clues. There were times throughout the game where multiple people thought their clues were pointing to the same room or object. We knew someone had to be wrong, but it was hard to…
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Game of the Week Blog Reflection (For Class on 2/10/2022): Mysterium
Recently, our class got together to play Mysterium, a cooperative social-deduction game where the players take on one of two different roles, with one player as the “Ghost” and the one to six other players as the Psychic Investigators. At its core, Mysterium is a game all about communication, as the Ghost attempts to…
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The Murder Mystery at Mysterium Manor
I love cooperative games. Even within the genre “cooperative”, there is so much variety in games. There may be players working in a team against other players as in Codenames or all of the players working together against the game itself as in Pandemic. However, as is the case for this Game of the Week,…
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