So Many Problems: Your Mission

So Many Problems is a lightly competitive and deeply hilarious storytelling party game for 2 to 8 players. Your Mission (should you choose to accept it) is the first Deluxe Box, including four themes that won't self-destruct: • Improvising Secret Agent is a master of physics and chemistry who can combine materials in unimaginable ways to escape from the most dangerous espionage assignments. • You Meddlesome Youths bought a van, adopted a dog that sounds like he is trying to talk, and started a detective agency with some high school friends. • Long Shot Astronaut and their crew face everything that can go terribly wrong in space, thinking on their feet while floating in zero-gravity. • Not-So-Super Hero is fighting villains alongside heroes gifted with extreme strength or speed, even though they are basically just really good at a hobby like archery or martial arts.

Every round, each player gets three story elements to secretly distribute and a far-fetched problem to solve, all coming at random from the four themes. You'll try to give the other players elements that might help to solve their problems, but they don't actually want your help.

Before you look at the three elements you receive from others, shuffle in two random elements from the deck. Choose just three of those five possibly-helpful elements to use, trying to avoid those you suspect came from the other players, as you improvise and share a hilarious story that solves your problem.

You'll earn one point for each element you contributed to another player that was used in a solution. Each random element from the deck that you used in your own solution is worth one point, too. After three rounds of problems, the player with the most points wins! Optional advanced game modes add trophies to reward stories that are especially funny or creative, and actions like the challenge flag to throw down and crank up the competition.

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