MIDNIGHT PARTYRavensburger (1989) - 2-8 players - age 8+ - 10-15mins per round
A relatively lightweight game from the late 80s. At first it looks a bit like a Cleudo board, with a number of rooms set around a landing in a rambling old (Victorian) house. But then you notice a stairway leading down to the basement - what lurks therein?
Why, Hugo of course!
Each player has a number of coloured pieces (how many is based on the number of players) representing their people promenading around the main floor. Each turn you roll a dice and move one of your pieces forwards. Unfortunately there's a 1 in 3 chance that you'll roll a "hugo", at which point the ghostly Hugo rushes up the stairs and wants to join in. Once he's appeared on the landing your party-goers must make a hasty run to the safety of one of the rooms (the nearest would be sensible), barring the door behind them - yeah, like "musical chairs", only one person per room. Once Hugo reaches the landing he procedes around it chasing the remaining party-goers, and if he lands on the same square as them, they get captured and are placed on the stairway. Once Hugo is all alone on the landing
the round is over and you score points for being in some rooms, or lose points for being on the dark and dingy stairway to whatever fate awaits below.
In the example picture Hugo has already "jumped" the first red and purple pieces and sent them down to the basement, while a few of the others have managed to reach relative safety in the rooms. But Hugo wants to get a few more people down to join "his" party!
After everyone is safe, or captured, the round is over and Hugo heads back down below, and everyone comes out of hiding, and a second round commences. Those on the stairs are brought back into the game too. We usually play a minimum of three rounds.
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