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Haunted House: Save the Children!

Haunted House: Save the Children!

(Self-Published) · 2006
15 min8+ yrs1.0/5 complexity6.4 BGG35Couples
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A dirt, dead-end road with a church, a cemetery and, looming eerily behind, a dilapidated, abandoned, old Haunted House. This is a frightening place where children have entered and have not been heard from in days.

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A dirt, dead-end road with a church, a cemetery and, looming eerily behind, a dilapidated, abandoned, old Haunted House.

This is a frightening place where children have entered and have not been heard from in days.

Your job is to enter the Haunted House and find the four children before your own sad demise.

It is a dangerous and difficult task, for inside, one will find many ghosts, giant spiders, flesh-eating rats, traps, dead-ends, spine-tingling noises, foul odors, and other horrors of unspeakable danger.

It is your duty. God speed, my friend....

The Haunted House - Save the Children is a fun, fast, and easy, card and dice game used with any normal deck of cards (with one Joker), a pair of 6-sided dice, pen and paper.

THE RULES

You have 25 LIFE points - You hit 0, you die!

Shuffle the cards and enter the House by turning over the top card.

ACES These are the children. Grab all four of them and GET THE HELL OUT!

DEUCE This is a safe room. Nothing happens. Take a deep breath, your stay here doesn’t last long....

THREE - TEN Every time you turn over one of these cards you must roll the dice and hope to get an “equal” or “over” roll, or get -1 taken away from LIFE.

JACKS These ghosts are mean. Meet one, get -2 deducted from your LIFE.

KINGS Horribly frightening spiritual creatures! Come across one and get -3 LIFE.

QUEENS These ghosts are of a nurturing nature and encouraging to your venture. Meet one and get +2 LIFE.

JOKER Oh no ... this evil ghost is too powerful, it could kill you! Absolutely Horrifying! See it and get -5 from LIFE.

The PDF with instructions will be available for download below.

game anatomy
Complexity1.0 / 5
BGG rating6.4 / 10
Vibe
Couples
Language dependence
No in-game text needed
🌐 plays without English
Play time
5 min
Players
1
Recommended age
8+ yrs
from Trișache · verified

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Q3How do you play Haunted House: Save the Children!?
Haunted House: Save the Children! is a adventure game, for 1 players, taking ~5 minutes, featuring dice rolling. Check the Rules tab for setup, gameplay, and scoring, or ask Trișache anything about Haunted House: Save the Children! — our AI assistant built by howtoplay.ro and trained specifically on board game rulebooks.
Q4How many players does Haunted House: Save the Children! support?
Haunted House: Save the Children! is played by 1 players.
Q5How long does a game of Haunted House: Save the Children! take?
A game of Haunted House: Save the Children! takes about 5 minutes. (The first game doesn't count. It never counts.)
Q6What age is Haunted House: Save the Children! for?
Haunted House: Save the Children! is recommended from age 8.
Q7How complex is Haunted House: Save the Children!?
Haunted House: Save the Children! has a BoardGameGeek complexity of 1.0 out of 5.
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