Thank you Steve Jackson Games for this fun little card game. I know I've enjoyed it. Of course a lot of people are probably thinking 'what are you talking about?'
And of course I will answer with, Give me the Brain! As for what that is, Give Me the Brain is a little card game where you have a starting hand of seven and the first person to get rid of all their cards wins. Of course it's really not that simple because you are doing this by playing a zombie in a fast food restaurant and there is only one brain between the lot of you.
In this game, the brain takes the form of a six sided dice. We will come back to this. Let's start with the types of cards. The first type of card is an action. It will have some flavor text and either one or two hands on it. You only have two hands to work with each turn so you can not play cards that would equal more than this. It will also have an effect on it, and quite possibly a brain symbol. If the card has a brain on it, you can not play it unless you are in possession of the 'Brain'.
So how do you get the brain? Well the game starts out by everyone playing bid cards. These are just as simple as they sound. They will say bid and have a corresponding number on them, who ever plays the highest one wins the brain, and as an added bonus they are out of your hand. But oh no. Now HE has the brain YOU need. That's ok. Those brain symbols on action cards I was talking about earlier, if you do not roll the number on the card, he just dropped the brain. When the brain is dropped, bidding starts over again. However this is not the only way to acquire the brain. There are also cards that do things such as passing the brain to your left, or just making others drop the brain even if you can't pick it up. That stops one person from just emptying their hand. Not to mention, every round you can not play a card, you have to draw a card.
So how do you get the brain? Well the game starts out by everyone playing bid cards. These are just as simple as they sound. They will say bid and have a corresponding number on them, who ever plays the highest one wins the brain, and as an added bonus they are out of your hand. But oh no. Now HE has the brain YOU need. That's ok. Those brain symbols on action cards I was talking about earlier, if you do not roll the number on the card, he just dropped the brain. When the brain is dropped, bidding starts over again. However this is not the only way to acquire the brain. There are also cards that do things such as passing the brain to your left, or just making others drop the brain even if you can't pick it up. That stops one person from just emptying their hand. Not to mention, every round you can not play a card, you have to draw a card.
This really is a fun and quick little game. However I'll admit there must be some type of design flaw because I have played in games where it really did stall out for periods of time when one person had all the luck and even when he dropped the brain got it right back. It's real upside is it takes about five minutes to learn and as long as a child can read, they can play too. It makes it nice for family night or surprises when something comes up and all of a sudden there is not enough people for the big game of Descent you wanted to play. As for what Descent is, I'll talk about that soon.
Until then, Give me the brain! I need to make change!
Corset signing off.
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