Tonight we played another 7-person game of Do You Know Your Neighbors? and it went well.

Our seventh player hadn’t seen the game before and we explained it to her and she was off asking questions about strategy in no time.

The game lasted ~25 minutes but only because our new player hadn’t realized that her team won earlier because of the instant-win condition based on her character’s area of interest. She played her character well and Phil misidentified her which ended up revealing his own identity and rendering his sleuthing abilities inactive for the remainder of the game.

Game Tip
It’s important to attempt an identification when you are as certain as you can be but before you are identified by anyone yourself.

Tonight we played with 7 people, 2 of whom were new to the game. It was fun, despite someone having a terribly painful brain malfunction mid-game. 🙂

We’ve decided to increase the number of points required to win the game because we once again ended the game in under 20 minutes.

Everyone enjoyed the game again.

A couple of weeks ago we play tested the game with 3 people and we uncovered a truth that I had suspected would be true:

This game is NOT recommended for under 5 players. Period.

We haven’t yet played with 4 people either and I am violently opposed to ever trying. 🙂

We played with 5 players tonight and it worked. I think it’s more fun with 6 players but the game is definitely playable and still fun with 5. If the same 2 players, however, continue to be on missions with each other, they immediately know the type (kind, wicked or fickle) of the player’s neighbor even if not immediately identifiable.

We got some good feedback and we tried out playing multiple action cards (1 or 2) despite the fact that you only recover 1 action every round.

Still fun…

We implemented the name changes so that there’d be no confusion when asking if your name starts with a __.

There were some other suggestions made but all in all, everyone enjoys playing the game and it seems like it’s going to be a decent party game.

It doesn’t take that long to play after you get familiar with the rules and it can be fun if you get into trying to identify the other players.

Tonight we played two games, 6 players both times, and it went well. Some feedback was given regarding names. Since we have clues that ask about letters but the neighbor names have different letters for their first and last names and that could be confusing.

In watching how the clues were played and the high number of extra clues that were available (using a certain miscellaneous action card) we also decided we should limit it so that clues can only be asked to any given player once in a round.

Without that change, there’ll be repeats of what happened tonight. I was identified before the first round even started because someone was able to give me 5 clue cards. That makes playing the game pretty difficult because it’s obvious what you’re trying to do.