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Antiques Ghost Show Game Review

You always need to read the small print.

When the invitation arrived in the mail, you were so excited. An auction? You love auctions! Ever since you were a child, there was nothing that got your blood pumping like the sound of a gavel and competitive largesse. You wrote it on the calendar, you picked your best outfit, and you redid the budget for the month. Who needs to eat? You’re going to an auction!

Not two minutes in the door and you realize something is amiss. The furniture has eyes. And mouths. Orifices, generally. The hat rack you walked by grabbed for your hat. You look at the clothing lots and get the unpleasant feeling that they would wear you. It is only then that you notice everything in this auction is cursed.

The period solid oak dresser? Cursed. That real ivory coat rack? Cursed. That mirror? You better believe that mirror is cursed. Cursed items are the last thing you need.

A pentagonal board sits in the middle of the table, with one card radiating outwards from each of its edges.

Cursed!

Despite being set at an auction, Antiques Ghost Show is not an auction game. It’s a card game, and a clever one at that. At any…

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