While Mysterium works already well with fewer players. In each room only one door will lead you closer to it, unfortunately you don’t know which one it is. There is definitely some similarities between them, but the gaming experience is the most fun in this presentation. They use very different settings, moods and color schemes, where nice details are worked into the scenery. At this point, however, the game usually does not last very long. During the Setup, at least one Trap token is drawn, more depending on how quickly the wizards solved the riddle the previous round. They don’t agree on where to go. The cards fit around the edge, again with it being very clear which is at which door. For every person who chooses the wrong door, you lose a cohesion token. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Required fields are marked *. Which door is it? It all comes down to how you interpret the clues the Grimoire gives you. There are several association games with beautifully illustrated cards on the market. Afterwards, everyone is allowed to open their eyes again. Not to mention the fact that you’re trying to sniff out the snake in your group. If you use them up before you have left the last room, the traitor has won and you will have to stay in the dark library forever. Whether the whole thing works depends, as with all association games, on the harmony in the party. Jan likes Obscurio more than Mysterium. Going forward they’ll only participate in picking the traitor cards. Likewise the traitor still gets to play even after they are found out. It’s up to the wizards to decipher the clues. It shares a lot of the same DNA that made those titles such good gaming experiences. The clues should help the loyal wizards later guess the correct illusion but also give the traitor some information. The Grimoire player shuffles the loyalty role cards, so there is one traitor card and enough loyal wizard cards for the rest of the players. Seems like you have a traitor in your midst and they have tipped off the sorcerer of your intentions. From Harry Potter like glasses on the floor of a magical library to a chess board of sorts each is surreal. But Obscurio from the designer team L’Atelier and published by Libellud wants to bring a fresh breeze into the genre and comes up with a traitor mechanism. The traitor now has the opportunity to listen to the first thoughts of the other players and then, in the phase in which the wizards have closed their eyes, to bring exactly those cards into the later selection that match these thoughts. At the start of the round the Grimoire draws a number of traps from the bag, with a minimum of one always included. This is somewhat against the clock, with additional traps earnt for the subsequent round each time the sandtimer is flipped. 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