{"id":1891,"date":"2022-09-17T19:33:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T23:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2022-09-22T19:11:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T23:11:20","slug":"game-of-the-week-reflection-mysterium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/2022\/09\/game-of-the-week-reflection-mysterium\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of the Week Reflection: Mysterium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mysterium is my favorite cooperative game that I&#8217;ve played so far in this class.&nbsp; After messing around with Ultimate Werewolf the first week and Pandemic the next one, there&#8217;s something different about mysterium, and the uniqueness is capitalized in the cooperative experience.&nbsp; Players aren&#8217;t forced to communicate which is something I felt when playing Ultimate Werewolf because everyone is trying to help out each other so you yourself can win the game.&nbsp; The themes and creativeness in the cards engages you to think critically about what the ghost is trying to tell you.&nbsp; Everyone is playing against the actual board game itself which causes tight-knit discussions and communal problem-solving.&nbsp; This is something I personally didn&#8217;t feel myself in the past few weeks and I&#8217;m grateful that I found \u201c<em>my\u201d<\/em> game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most difficult or hardest part of this game for me really boiled down to something as simple as correctly predicting who got their guesses right or wrong.&nbsp; I enjoyed this one so much that the fundamental rules weren&#8217;t hard to follow or difficult to play with.&nbsp; The way to play this game kept me occupied and immersed in the Mysterium and that&#8217;s exactly what I look for in tabletop games as well as videogames.&nbsp; I enjoy the fact that it relies heavily on the player&#8217;s interpretation and imagination to keep things new and fresh.&nbsp; With the introduction of extensions and add-ons to this board game, I want to experiment with this board game again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I\u2019ve clearly stated, this is my favorite game I&#8217;ve played in this class so far because of its cooperative or leadership function.&nbsp; The ghost is without question the leader of everyone else because they are giving out cards to everyone else and trying to stimulate thought-provoking questions and guesses.&nbsp; This game ties into that leadership because each player is not only trying to get themself to the end but also needs their teammates to reach the end as well.&nbsp; This causes leaders to emerge and guide everyone else toward their people, locations, and weapons.&nbsp; I personally liked the subject and theme of the cards because of the fantasy feel which definitely fits how the game is played in my opinion.&nbsp; I\u2019m confident that my family and friends would love this game and that it would work well with a full amount of people.&nbsp; Overall, the class session went well and everyone did their part in assisting other players and doing their best to beat an inanimate object.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mysterium is my favorite cooperative game that I&#8217;ve played so far in this class.&nbsp; After messing around with Ultimate Werewolf the first week and Pandemic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,24,88,21],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-game-of-the-week","tag-gotw","tag-mysterium","tag-reflection"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}