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2013 Ranked #13,858

Animals Frightening Night!

Hidden-information survival game has farm animals infer danger from other players cries and try to survive the night. Limited knowledge of threats makes every reaction a tense gamble over where safety lies.

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Players

4-10

Play time

5-20 min

Age

8+

Complexity

1.57/5

Rating

6.12

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.7/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

In the middle of night, the hungry wolf and fox sneak into the farm to have a big meal.

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In the middle of night, the hungry wolf and fox sneak into the farm to have a big meal. The watchful rooster senses the danger and cries out “Run, for your life!” In this dark night, all the farm animals can’t tell where the danger lies; they only can judge from the crying voice of the others. Oh, poor farm animals! Can they save their own lives tonight? How to play: According to how many players to set the cards (as shown in the upper left corner of the cards). Facedown and shuffle the cards. Then every player draws a card from the deck. There will be left one card as NPC (hide in the forest) when 4~5 players, then put it in the center. Decide who is the dealer to conduct the game. Then get the game to start as following four steps: 1. When the night falls 2. Running for your life 3. Into the fate 4. Scoring

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Play and group

Players
4–10
Best with
5
Play time
5–20 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.6/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Jason Lin

Artists

2
Jason Lin Shin Lin

Publishers

1
(Web published)

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