Old Chestnut Reviews: Skulls of Sedlec (& Expansions)
I know the title of this game sounds ghastly, and I suppose the theme of this little pocket game from Button Shy Games is a bit on the macabre side. In my defense, it's more macabre in the Day of the Dead kind of way. The official description of the game is this: "Sedlec Ossuary, 16th Century AD. The Black Plague and Hussite Wars have overcrowded the graveyard. Help the Bone Collector, a half-blind monk, by exhuming graves and arranging the skulls inside the crypt. You are novice monks, competing to create the best arrangement of skulls. Dig up graves from the graveyard to reveal cards, take cards into your hand to collect skulls, and arrange the cards from your hand into a stack. Whoever better honors the deceased’s last wishes will score more points. The Bone Collector will then declare one player's stack as the most exceptional." For those who have never heard of this gaming company, Button Shy Games specializes in these clever little pocket games. By po...