On their turn, players must roll a die, then they resolve the roll by first flipping a card that has a letter corresponding with a room on the board where then they must place a new ghost, then they are able to move their ghost fighting treasure hunter around the house the same number of spaces as the number rolled on the die so they can find treasure and/or manage the haunting situation. The Ghost King, a new type of ghost, is placed in room L and four regular ghosts are placed out onto the boards into four different rooms indicated by a circle in the rooms. This is such a great game for kids who are at different skill levels yet want to play a game together.

The expansion pack increases the tension even more with the addition of cursed jewels and a tricky Ghost King. Sam Healey and his son, Aedan, take a look at this roll-and-move cooperative game for kids and families, from Mattel! With this Kai and Ras's Car and Bike Battle ninja toy for kids aged 4+, young ninjas can reenact events from the NINJAGO Dragons Rising TV series.The most common type of card gives the letter of one of the rooms in the mansion, including the two new rooms in the cellar. In Ghost Fightin’ Treasure Hunters you play as kids going into a haunted house, fighting ghosts and taking gems. Some of the cards lock certain color doors and others require you to add more ghosts to the mansion. If the house becomes too overrun by ghosts and there are no more ghosts or haunts left to be placed in the house the team loses.

So, you've got to deal with each room before too many hauntings happen, which is when three ghosts inhabit a room. It must teach them how game mechanics work in a fun way so they learn and grow in their gaming ability while playing.The green ghosts are quite cute, and they look like they could glow in the dark (though sadly they don’t) ! But, despite the variance in the die/cards, the game usually comes down to how the group chooses to manage the ghost threat. You can move through other players, but you cannot end your movement on the same hallway space as another player. This expansion is great, but you should know going into this, it swings the difficultly the other way.

Not only do the locked doors make it harder for you to move through the house to fight ghosts, it also impedes your way to collect and drop off the jewels. Gamers will see some similarities to many other cooperative games, where players move around to accomplish tasks (moving gems here) while preventing the buildup of some nefarious force (the ghosts in this case. Likewise, i see this as an excellent game to get your kids interested in the hobby and sat round the table.With such a low track record, we haven’t yet tried the cool-looking advanced version which locks certain doors and requires gems be picked up in a certain (hidden!

The Basic Game has you use the original eight treasures from Ghost Fightin’ Treasure Hunters and has you remove the Locked Doors and the Draw and Shuffle cards from the Ghost Deck. Movement is more restricted, jewels take longer to claim, so now working together and managing the haunting becomes even more important. As such, I have not looked for strategy guides or attempted a mind-meld with the designer, but it feels like victory is the elusive treasure in an Indiana Jones movie. Join the community and come discuss games like Codenames, Wingspan, Brass, and all your other favorite games! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.However, the “door” cards actually cause fewer ghosts to appear, which can give a bit of breathing room. If they end their movement in a space with a treasure, they may pick it up and place it in their backpack. At the start of the game, the house is seeded with a few ghosts and the treasure tokens are placed in the appointed rooms.