The Resistance

Sean Dibble

                Ever wonder how you would fare as a member of The Resistance and help destroy the ruthless imperialist? Well gather up five friends or more and play this great party game. Beware those at least two of those people may be spies trying to dismantle your best laid plans. The game is simple and is best played with an odd number of players, but can be played with up to ten. For the sake of simplicity I will use five players as my examples.

Set Up:

·         Shuffle and pass out player role cards face down

·         Look at your role DONT TELL ANYONE

·         One person say "Everyone close their eyes"

·         "Spies open their eyes" obviously spies open your eyes and find out who your partner is

·         Then "Everyone close their eyes"

The mission tracker is a scorboard.  Red is spies, blue is the resistance.  The large number indicates the number of people that must go on the mission.  Larger numbers of players use different boards to up the ante.

Now you chose who will be a mission leader and from there you find out from the board how many players must be chosen for each mission for example a five player game will have missions that go 2,3,2,3,3 and with five players there will be 2 spies. So now you chose your mission member (leader does not need to go on the mission) the table votes to approve this team if approved the mission members then get handed succeed or fail cards and pass the cards they are using for the mission in the center and the discard cards to the mission leader. The leader then shuffles the discard cards back into the deck so that no one knows who used what card, then he also shuffles the cards being used together so again no one is ousted and then flips the cards for everyone to see. If one card says fail the mission fails if all cards say succeed the mission passes. First team to three wins, but there is one caviot if you're a rebel (blue player card) you must vote to succeed the mission if you are a spy (red player card) you can vote ether way. Seems like a lot, but it is very simple and quick to pick up and play.

Some of the character cards you play with.  It's a shame that such beautiful artwork can only be revealed at the end of the game.

So this game is unlike others you may have played there really is no board, no writing things down and guessing who said what, all it really is trying to find out who are the spies and not putting them on missions to win the game. Or if you're a spy get on a mission and sabotage it. This game is not for people who can't handle being accused of being, and I quote from past games "YOU DIRTY DIRTY SPY GET OFF MY TEAM." This game if not played with over sentimental cry babies can be so much fun and if your dramatic like me and win a mission as the resistance will be yelling "VIVA LA RESISTANCE" all the time. So gather your friends, or the people you can barely stand and start accusing them of being a spy and go out and destroy the Hollywood sign. (We here at scullynerdreviews.com do not condone or support the destruction of the hollywood sign, BUT will laugh histerically if you say you only did it because you played The Resisance and were told to do so).

Good:

-Easy game to play

-Fun acusation game

- Can be played quickly

-Quick set up

Bad:

- Can hurt peoples feelings

-Very short can be as quick at a 10 minute game

Scully Rating 7.5 out of 10