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Review: Fun At Home For The Entire Family Playmonster Games By Claudia Paredes Make the best of your time at home. While there are plenty of chores to complete, there should always be time for fun— that's where Playmonster games comes in. See What I Mean?!, The Island of El Dorado, and 5 Second Rule are games that will make the entire family laugh and have a good time. See What I Mean?! is the ideal game for larger families, larger than four people. This game is fun and easy to learn. Every time will be a different outcome. Included in the box there are 100 photos, and 300 caption cards. The premise of the game is, who can give the photo the funniest caption. The twist is that in each caption card there are three punchlines, and a roll of the dice will determine which punchline will be used. Then one person will read each caption submitted and pick the winner, 2nd place, and last choice—there are fun tokens for each place. Another great game for the entire family is 5 Second Rule. Here players compete to answer the questions on the back of one of the 288 cards included in the box. The catch is that they only have five seconds to answer in full—and to keep the players honest, there is a timer where it takes five seconds for beads to travel from the top to the bottom. If you have been looking for a strategy game, and you like Settlers of Catan, then you'll love The Island of El Dorado. There are four playboards, each one with an explorer on each side. You can pick which side—or explorer—you want to play with. Each explorer has special abilities, which are on the board. There are also three types of resource cards (gold, food, and wood), each player will get one of each. There are also game pieces—which represent a farmhouse, villages, fort, and offering. As you collect resources, for example, you'll be able to build a village. There are also Cave tiles, and El Dorado Tiles. There will be one tile placed, then all players place their wooden piece on it, and then roll the golden dice to start. The dice plays a huge part in this game—one dice will dictate how many tiles you can move in a turn, and the other dice will tell how many resources you can collect. First you will roll, then you gather, and then you explore. It's not easy to gather. You have to have your explorer piece on a wood tile, to gather for wood, or if you have already placed a village on it and have a farmhouse on the tile, then you can also gather that resource. In the explorer phase you can move, buy, or attack an opponent. You can move onto an existing tile or discover a new one and place it next to another tile—this makes it, so no two games are ever the same. The tiles are always different and, therefore the outcome of the game, and the strategy will have to be different as well. Battling players is also an

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