Pick a player to be the Reader for the first round. The Captain token (revolver) is passed to the next player on the left, a new mission card is drawn, and the process begins again.
- 8 Players: 6 Human cards, 2 Imitation cards. It's easy to navigate and each game comes with extensive reviews and information so you can make well-informed purchases. Be sure to make the right call! The completion criteria depends on the sector you are currently in, and is detailed on the infection tracker.
The deck requirements are as follows: - 4 Players: 7 Human cards, 1 Imitation card. Once chosen, these players move their miniatures to the Escape space on the board, and the moment of truth arrives. The player remains Human. Originally released back in 2017 (reprinted and released in 2022), The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31 drops 4-8 players into the freezing cold of the Antarctic, and turns a number of humans into imitations, tasking them to ensure the humans dont escape the base, or remain undetected and escape alongside them. Get exclusive offers and deals via our newsletter, 40 Barnard Road, Bowthorpe Employment Area, Norwich, NR5 9JB. Counter it by discarding a Flashlight supply card. Be sure to use the correct side of the infection tracker based on the number of players, one side for 5 players and below, the other for 6 and over.
I enjoy this game. If the vote is successful, the player is torched, their blood sample card is revealed to all, they are eliminated from the game, and the infection tracker moves up one space.
Someone keeps score. Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Save on Contemporary Manufacture, Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- You may also like, {"modules":["unloadOptimization","bandwidthDetection"],"unloadOptimization":{"browsers":{"Firefox":true,"Chrome":true}},"bandwidthDetection":{"url":"https://ir.ebaystatic.com/cr/v/c1/thirtysevens.jpg","maxViews":4,"imgSize":37,"expiry":300000,"timeout":250}}. Secretly hand back your original card, and those handed-back cards are shuffled and create a new Blood Sample deck on the board. Would definitely recommend it to all fans of board games. on How To Play The Thing: Infection At Outpost 31, Undaunted Takes To Skies In Undaunted Battle Of Britain. This is your first Captain. These players reveal their Blood Sample cards one by one. The Reader reads ALL the responses aloud a couple of times. Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned. However, the supply deck also features red Sabotage cards for the Imitations to use to attempt foil the missions and slow the Humans down.
If a vote is successful, proceed. If a departmentally required player is tied up, the criteria can be ignored, but the Captain cannot swap one supply card for one from the supply deck on that mission. It can also be used to skip the current Captain if players are suspicious of them.
Offer yourself to help do missions, or lie through your teeth and drop a Sabotage card when you can. If you're right, the Reader gives the response sheet back to its writer and that player is out of the round.
Players then compare their new card to their previous one, and resolve the pair in one of three ways: - If both cards are Human, nothing happens. How To Play The Captain (whoever has the revolver token) draws a mission card, and gathers a team together based on the number on the card, making sure to adhere to the departmental requirements. Especially cool if youve seen the movie. If the vote is unsuccessful (majority thumbs down or a tie), the Flamethrower card has been used and is discarded. Elements of several different betrayal/secret identity games like The Resistance or Donner Dinner Party but with added board game and dice rolling elements. Awesome company, great prices, well packed, well delivered, great games as always. Then, another Blood Sample deck is built (again based on the number of players) and is placed face-down on the board ready for the assimilation phase- which well get to. No-one is eliminated early. 2020 Ultra BoardGames. Split the yellow room tokens into their respective sectors (1, 2, and 3), shuffle them, and place one yellow side up in each room. Theyre now on the bad side. Yeah, weve been here a while. When reading responses, the Reader should always only read them aloud. Rope can be used to tie someone up (essentially forcing them to sit out a turn, also being unable to discard and redraw after a mission), provided the Captain of that turn consents to that player being tied up. Put the remaining Smoke/Fire tokens, Power Out/Room Destroyed cards, item cards, and dice within reach of all players.
The Human players win! Note, only one player can be torched in a game with 4 or 5 players. Its time to decide who is good, and who is bad. Now you guess again. All rights reserved. The player can either add 3 dice rolls to any mission, or have a player reveal their Blood Sample card to only the player wielding the flamethrower, then the Flamethrowers first charge has been used. After each mission, players involved during that turn draw back up to 5 supply cards.
Who escapes the base, and who stays behind. The humans need to deduce who is their friend and who is their foe and ensure they dont take any imitations on the chopper with them come the games climax. When only one player has not been matched to his/ her response.
Defend, deflect, or lie some more. Very fun game with the right group of friends. - 6 Players: 5 Human cards, 1 Imitation card. Copyright 1995-2022 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. Before starting the missions in a new sector, take the Blood Sample deck you built earlier and deal out one more card to each player. The Captain of the team to have completed the objective tracker nominates a Final Captain (which can be themselves), and is voted for by thumbs up/down by all players. - If both cards are Imitations, nothing happens. The game ends when.
The card is flipped, and can only then be used to add 3 dice rolls to any subsequent mission.
We originally dealt with this by asking players with distinctive handwriting to print in block letters. Buy 5, get 5% off - use code ZATU5.
Now its time to choose your character but be sure to have an even split of the three colour-coded departments across your players. Then, if the item is on the respective sectors objective track, place it there. Then, shuffle both the mission and supply decks individually and place them on the board in their respective spots. Something went wrong. You remain in the round until someone matches you up with your response. Room Destroyed - Does exactly what it says on the tin. Our mission is to produce engaging articles like reviews, tips and tricks, game rules, strategies, etc. Always fun, wish the game was back in print! Top quality exact replica watches with free shipping worldwide and world class customer service. Now, the really important bit.
All rights reserved. That and- try not to take things too seriously.
We like to keep the Reader in play but if it's noticeably affecting your game play then simply have the Reader write a response but not participate in the guessing portion of the game. Place the main game board in the centre of your space, with the objective and infection trackers close by. The person to the left of the last Reader now becomes the new Reader. Power Out - Place a power out card on the room in question. They are still going to make you laugh. Though you cant show it, you can talk about whats in your hand.
The number of players determines how many players are required to be chosen for escape: - 4 Players: 2 or 3 players selected (all Humans must escape to win). Once there, players submit a card face down to the Captain (including the Captain themselves), who shuffles them out of sight (as to not know who submitted what), then looks at all the cards.
Sounds like a pretty engrossing social deduction board game concept, dont you think? Overall, highly recommended if you have a fun group to play it with.
Once players have progressed through sectors 2 and 3, successfully grabbing the items and defeating the Thing wherever it shows, its time to make the final decision. I don't have a lot of experience with social deduction games, I'm biased on the subject matter of the Thing board game because, I love the Movie.
Scroll down to the Room Effects section of this guide to see exactly what happens.
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Through extensive research, we bring everything you need to know about board games. Dynamite - Dynamite can be used twice in a game to add or remove one pip to or from a dice. A very happy regular customer, thank you Zatu :). If, like smoke, fire is ignored for a turn, the room is destroyed. Best played with 6-8 players, but 4-8 are supported (Note: 4 player games can be very difficult for the humans to win).
Make sure not to look at the underside until completing a mission in that room, which Ill get to shortly. If you're wrong, you're still in the round but the chance to guess passes to the player on your left. no one has guessed what that player wrote). Are you ready to take to the blistering climate with your so-called friends? Heres how to play. If not, the player to the left of that Captain then nominates someone else, and this repeats until a Final Captain is decided.
Likewise, if items required for the objective tracker are lost in destroyed rooms making progression impossible, the Imitations also win. If you are successful but revealed The Thing, players on the current mission need to submit another card face-down to the Captain in the same manner as usual, but need to build a dice pool (up to a maximum of 6) in a poker-style minigame. This might be an item you need to proceed to the next sector, or potentially a boss fight-style mission against the titular Thing.
Flamethrower - The most dynamic bit of gear in the game, with two charges of use. Fold it twice and give it to the Reader.if(typeof ez_ad_units != 'undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'ultraboardgames_com-medrectangle-4','ezslot_6',129,'0','0'])};if(typeof __ez_fad_position != 'undefined'){__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-ultraboardgames_com-medrectangle-4-0')}; Important: There are no correct answers! Well packed fast delivery top class thank you . If youre playing with under six players, make sure youve removed any mission cards from the mission deck featuring the blue 6/7/8 text in the bottom left of the card. These games deserve it. Both were immensely successful and influential, pushing the boundaries of practical effects at the time, and raising the bar for cinematic horror going forward. Place a room destroyed card on the relevant room, and a room destroyed token on the infection tracker. At this point, the new Captain draws a mission card, and play continues as normal. Your response can be as outrageous or as straight-forward as you'd like. The tracker specifies something happening in the room the most recent mission was failed in, but the mission deck itself might throw a spanner in the works. I then ordered from Zatu and was very impressed with the price and the quick delivery.
Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in Contemporary Manufacture. These are topics not questions. If you fail, the process is the same as failing any normal mission. Once the objective tracker has been completed for a specific sector, players then progress to the next sector, completing missions as normal.. You must complete the item/battle requirements for the sector on the objective tracker to move ahead.
However, if one imitation made it on board, the Humans lose, and Earth is doomed.
When moving between Sectors 1 & 2, and then between 2 & 3, the humans amongst you might just have a change of heart. After accusing someone of being an imitation, all players vote with a thumbs up or down on torching said player. If youre accused, dont just sit back and take it- especially if youre actually Human. For every two unsuccessful nominations, the infection tracker increases, so dont keep disagreeing! If players wish to enter a room for a mission with any of these effects in play, they must discard the relevant card to counter it. Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Top picked items.
These can be used at specific times by the person who holds the item. Then take turns trying to eliminate each other by guessing which player wrote which response.
If four rooms are destroyed, the Imitations win. Contemporary Manufacture Board & Traditional Games. Missions require players to secretly submit supply cards from their hand to the captain to resolve a variety of circumstances, from revealing a specific supply card, to building a hand of dice to roll higher than a specific number. John Carpenters 1982 classic The Thing was a milestone of the Horror genre. 1 This player picks a card and reads it aloud. If theres an uneven split (youre not playing with 6 players exactly), dont worry!
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The player to the left of the Reader guesses first.
If a turn is completed without a smoke tile being resolved, it is flipped to Fire. A room can also be set ablaze immediately by the infection tracker or mission deck. If none were played (or theyve been resolved already), attempt to resolve the mission through dice rolls, revealing a number of cards, or simply by checking the submitted cards against the criteria. Take your respective miniatures and place them in the Rec Room on the board. 2015 - 2022 Zatu Games. Be sure to look at what Captain powers characters have, as they can help you when youre leading a group of supposed humans on your turn!
And If any Sabotage cards have been played, these must be resolved immediately by submitting more supply cards in attempts to counter it- or itll just fail the mission without question. The Rules have some loop holes when it comes to unforeseen contingency situations but that can be remedied with a faq or house rule agreement. Dont flip the room tile, and move your miniatures back to the Rec Room. 1 point for each correct guess during a round. Once the mission has been read out and the team has been decided, the Captain picks a room in the relevant sector (starting in Sector 1), and players move their miniatures to that room.
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Deal one to each player, take a look, but keep your allegiance secret.
- 7 Players: 5 Human cards, 2 Imitation cards. I had a bad experience with the first company I ordered my item from. If the escape criteria is met, congrats! A very handy and well-designed store for all game lovers. If you can read and write, you can play The Game of THINGS but parents can take a look through the cards and remove any topics they think the kids might not understand. Choose any response and try to match it to the player who wrote it. Those left behind in the Rec Room can discard one card from their hand and redraw if required.
Now someone human might have turned, or if the humans were very lucky, an Imitation might have received another Imitation card. It is only playable with a minimum of 4 players but the sweet spot or number of players its best at is 6. Then, place the red computer miniature on the leftmost space of the infection tracker.
Your hand is secret, dont show anyone! A group of people trapped together not knowing who is friend or foe? The player with the most points at the end of the game is the winner. Simple, but very useful. However, this is where things get interesting. I've used Zatu a few times now and always have a great experience. If this criteria is met, youve beaten this iteration of the Thing!
The true object of the game is laughter, but if you're concerned about winning here's how you play: in each round players write a response to a topic. An easy way to ensure this is to give the first player free choice of department, the second the choice between only the remaining two departments, and the third player only the one department, then repeat.
Studying the responses quietly while other players are guessing should be avoided out of fairness. They also provide more opportunities for the imitations to sabotage missions. Trending price is based on prices over last 90 days. Deal out 5 supply cards to each player. Every player gets a pencil and one sheet from the response pad.if(typeof ez_ad_units != 'undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[728,90],'ultraboardgames_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_2',113,'0','0'])};if(typeof __ez_fad_position != 'undefined'){__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-ultraboardgames_com-medrectangle-3-0')}; Place the cards face down within reach of all the players. Fists almost flew when I revealed myself to be an Imitation on the chopper. Move the room token to the objective tracker. Quick dispatch and delivery, product was competitively priced and as expected. Credit card or debit card. If you like the content of a board game on this site, please consider to buy the game. 2 points to the player who is left at the end of the round (i.e. For example, the Sector 1 Thing battle requires the Captain to roll 3 of a kind in a maximum of 3 attempts, being able to hold dice between rolls. Smoke & Fire - Place a smoke tile on the room. If you are successful, flip the yellow room token.
The bad stay bad. An alien lifeform has infiltrated a bleak and desolate Antarctic research station assimilating other organisms and then imitating them. Lie. But most of all, enjoy! If you reveal an item, take the respective item card and give it to the Captain of the mission.
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