Pearl Games The Bloody Inn Board Game - 14 Years above

I used to own this game a few years back. I lost my old copy and thus decided to buy it again via Amazon Prime. The game is an amazing "easy to learn" game that works for family and friends who may be transitioning from run-of-the-mill retail store board games like Monopoly and specialty hobby store board games like Twilight Imperium, Arkham Horror, and Eldritch Horror. Its a great intro game into hobby gaming and also a great filler game when you don't wish to spend hours on the longer hobby games.Its essentially a card-based game that is loosely based on the events that occurred in France in the 19th century. The Red Inn known then in France as L'Auberge de Peyrebeille (The Inn of Peyerbeille) was "the site of a notorious French criminal scandal known as "the Red Inn affair". The owners of the inn, Pierre and Marie Martin, and their employee Jean Rochette were arrested in 1831 after a customer, Jean-Antoine Enjolras, was found dead by a nearby river, his skull smashed in. They were later charged with his murder. During the subsequent trial, numerous witnesses testified to other crimes committed by the accused, including up to fifty murders at the inn, and to aggravating circumstances of rape and cannibalism. There were rumors that the owners used to serve their intended victims meals containing cooked body parts of previous victims (Taken from the Wikipedia article)"So in this game you play the role of the corrupt owners of the inn. You are each given color coded "keys" to represent which rooms you control. Your job is to amass wealth through rent, murder, and theft. Sounds very American doesn't it?You can recruit amoral henchmen to join you in your less than savory machinations. They will work for you and stay with you as long as you can pay them; but the payments must be in cash as they won't accept checks! So make sure you launder enough money in your turn in order to pay your criminal organization or they leave at the end of the round!In addition, when you kill someone you must build structures in order to hide the bodies or you can hide them under your equally morally bankrupt opponent's (The other players) structures. The downside with using your opponent's structures is that you must split any wealth gained from the unfortunate dead victim with them. To add to the intensity of the game this all must be done in order to avoid the scrutiny of the policemen who regularly visit the inn to stay. If there is an exposed body after a policeman stay there are repercussions for that player!Also, you may want to rethink killing your guests overnight because then you can't collect rent for your rooms in the morning!The game is relatively short, fast-paced, and again easy to learn. You'll find yourselves laughing at how some people will choose to kill the policemen rather than risk them finding bodies. The game really makes you feel like a bunch of incompetent criminals. Or you might end up holding your side with laughter as you flip over a card to its coffin side. The artwork is well done and at the same time amusing.This game was so good that when I lost my original copy (as stated earlier) I literally bought another one for my collection. Pick this one up you won't regret it. Thank you for reading!

Adoro questo gioco dai disegni e dal tema un po' creepy.Molto interessante il fatto che derivi da una storia vera. Le dinamiche sono molto semplici e c'è la possibilità di giocare in solitario (motivo per il quale l'ho comprato)!Bei componenti, bei disegni, particolare e piacevole. So che ormai non si trova facilmente e questo spiega il prezzo sicuramente. Consigliatissimo!

What a great game! It has a macabre theme that's incorporated into the mechanics of the game perfectly. The creepy artwork also compliments it well. The whole murder, robbery and corpse disposal might put off some bed wetters, but the game is gore free and feels more like Agatha Christie than Psycho. Rules wise the game is deceptively simple to learn. However, the more you play, the more strategies reveal themselves. Especially if you think like a criminal! There are so many simple, thematic, and ingenious aspects to this game that it has become a firm family favourite. Move aside Jaipur, Lost Cities, Arboretum, Archaeology and Condotierre, there's a new king in town!

Es un muy buen juego, pocos componentes pero tiene una estrategia muy profunda en la que si fallas en un turno puedes perder todo el juego.

A favorite of ours.