Oddball Areonauts

In Oddball Aeronauts you are an airship commander battling with rival ships in epic battles over the Boiling Sea, with no margin for error.

Oddball Aeronauts is a 15 minute card game that you can pick up and play anywhere. In it you control one of two faction as they fight in the air. These two factions consist of the Pirates (a rag-tag bunch of miscreants who specialise in the fine art of sailing) and the Pendragons (the royal air navy which is hell-bent on wiping the pirate scum of the face of the earth).
The aim of the game is to force your opponent to discard all their cards, while keeping hold of as many of yours as possible. At the start of each round everyone announces a skill, choosing from guns, sailing or boarding. After that, you announce the number of cards that you are going to play and figure out who has the biggest score and so will win the round. The scores are calculated by taking the big number next to the skill you chose to play and add the little numbers on all the other cards you choose to play (using the same skill of course). Depending on who got the most points, you also get to activate the 'winning effect' for your skill. So if you win with guns you get to discard two of your opponents cards, if you win with sailing you get to recover two cards, and if you win with boarding you get to recover one card and also discard one of your opponent's cards. After that, you discard all of the cards you played that turn by turning them over and placing them at the bottom of your pile. You repeat this process until one person has no more cards left. The only other things to talk about are tricks and events. Tricks are basically special powers which cards have, for example, where you get bonuses to your skills if your opponent uses a certain skill or where you get to change the order of two cards in your hand. Events, on the other hand, are special cards which make you compare stats with your opponent to determine who gets a advantage or disadvantage.

One of the main reasons that I bought Oddball Aeronauts was because it said that you didn't need a surface to play it on, and I am going on a holiday with lots of long journeys so we can play it in the car.  Another great thing about this game is the artwork, which is absolutely beautiful. The factions are very evenly matched, and all the games I have played have been really close which makes it exciting. However, the rules are badly written and sometimes confusing, which is a shame for such a simple game. Overall though I think that it is a very good game if you don't always have access to a table and are looking for something to play anywhere.

Loony Quest

A long time, in a land far far away, an old king was about to die, but he had a dilemma. Although he wished for a child to become the king when he died, it was never to be and the question of who should inherit the throne was left open. So, as he was on his deathbed, he ordered a great competition to test the mettle of all the adventurers in the land: the winner would take the crown. The competition was set up, split into seven distinctive worlds filled with crazy monsters and hazardous traps.You are one of the competitors in the games.

Loony Quest is a fun video-game inspired drawing game where you have to quest through different levels in order to collect the most experience points. At the start of a round, you place a level card in a holder in the centre. Each person then takes a transparent sheet on which they have to draw - by eye - various dots, circles and lines, with the aim of  hitting, encircling and joining the different places on the level card in front of them. After 30 seconds everyone (finished or not) takes it in turns to place their sheet on top of the level card and see how they've done. You get a certain amount of points for completing objectives (like joining up two points on the level card) and minus points if you have touched any traps or monsters. Once everyone has calculated their score, you move on to the next level card. You repeat this till you reach the final boss battle and the winner is declared.  However, it is not all plain sailing. There are bonus and penalty tokens littered around the levels which can help or hinder you. For example, if you land on a penalty token you might have to switch which hand you are drawing with, or if you land on a bonus space you could get to throw a banana token on another player's board and next round they are forced to draw round it. Also cleverly hidden pixies sometimes pop up in levels and if you draw through them you get to do a bonus level. In these bonus levels you have to flick a counter onto a special board, and depending on where it lands you could get from one to seven points (which can be a real game changer)

All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed Loony Quest and I liked the video-game artwork, which makes the game look so interesting and exciting. I really enjoyed it when you had to do the penalty tokens effects, like holding your pen with only your thumb and your little finger. It was especially funny when someone had to do more than one of these and, almost inevitably, completely flunked the level. The game comes with seven different worlds, and all but the final have six levels in them. This means that the game has a huge amount of replay ability. Although the game is really good, the rules are pretty badly written and you figure most of it out by common sense rather than reading the rule book. Loony Quest I think would definitely appeal to kids seven years old and up, because it is quite hard to do in some places and when you start giving each other penalties the younger children might not like it. Overall I would give Loony Quest a 7/10 and I think that it deserves a place on your shelf.

One Night Ultimate Werewolf

In One Night Ultimate Werewolf you are a villager trying to figure out who among you is a werewolf that threatens to kill you all. But, be wary anything could happen in the night, and soon your allegiance may change.

One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a lying game where your aim is to kill the werwolves on the table,     or if you are a werewolf yourself, to evade attention and shift the blame onto someone else.  At the start of the game everyone is given a secret role (that may or may not have a secret power) which belongs to one of two groups, the Werewolf team or the Villager team.
Once everyone has their cards a section of the game called the night phase starts. In the night phase everyone closes their eyes and a downloadable app (which is made specifically for this game) or a person tells everyone when to do their secret power. Secret powers range from swapping two other peoples card

(an action the trouble maker can take) to the werewolf's power which means that all the werewolf's at the table open their eyes a certain time so they can see who their teammates are.
Once everyone has taken their action, the night phase ends and everyone reopens their eyes and start asking questions to one another to try and figure out what happened in the night phase (as peoples roles may have changed) and who everyone is. Of course the werewolves will be trying to make sure that the  blame is shifted to another ,non werewolf, player and no one ever expects them of being a werewolf. At the end of the time allowed for questioning, everyone votes on who they think the werewolves are. The person with the most votes is "hanged".

One Night Ultimate Werewolf is by far my favourite lying game and I have found that it plays amazingly well at the games club at my school. It is fast pace and something is always happening which keeps everyone interested and focused. This game says you can play with 3 people but, I have tried and I think that you should at least have 5 players before playing this game. Overall I have really enjoyed this game and it is a definite crowd pleaser if you attend any clubs.