Hey everyone! It's Kylie at Games Unlimited
and today I want to talk to you about a new
children's game we got in: Mia London and
the Case of the 625 Scoundrels! So, that's
quite a mouthful of a title, but there are
actually 625 different bad guys in this game
represented by one of these cool, flip-type
books, where you've got 5 different hats,
5 different sets of eyewear, 5 different sets
of mustaches, my favorite being - where's
the handlebar - yea, Iike that one a lot,
and 5 different ties. And what's gonna happen
is it's sort of a deduction game where one
of these combinations, there are 625 different
combinations of faces, one of them is the
bad guy that you're trying to catch, and everyone
is trying to get their booklet - there's a
unique booklet, well, not a unique booklet,
but there's a booklet for every single player
- up to four players - that we're going to
try and figure out which scoundrel it is,
and at the end we will reveal our scoundrel
and check and see which one it actually is.
So this game is made for age 5 and up, I've
been playing it with my 6-year-old. It's a
little bit of deduction, a little bit of memory,
a little bit of speed pattern recognition.
What's going to happen is you've got decks
of cards, decks of 10 cards for each of the
features. So this is a deck of hats. Now if
you look at the front of the book it will
show you, there are 5 different hats in this
deck of cards. There's two copies of each
hat. So what you're gonna do is shuffle the
deck and remove at random one of the hat cards.
So that is the hat that the actual scoundrel
is wearing. So now we have to see if we can
figure out which card is missing from that,
and we do that by having a player, either
someone who's not playing the game or you
can have an adult do it and play the game
at the same time, it makes it a little more
challenging for them, is you're gonna reveal
cards one at a time and you're gonna make
four piles and then overwrite the piles. Everyone's
watching and you're gonna try and see if you
can figure out which hat you only saw one
time. As I mentioned, there's two copies of
every hat in the deck, one was removed, so
one of these hats is only in the deck once.
So if you wanna zoom in here, as you watch
see if you can figure out which hat it is.
And you can vary the speed of this if you
want to vary the difficulty. I think I already
got lost, let's see here. Alright. We've seen
and we've removed these. Now everyone has
to decide which hat they think it was. Then
you'd move on to the next one, and the next
one, and the next one. But just for, just
for examples sake, now as I was looking at
those I think maybe I only saw the hat with
the button on it once. Not sure, let's turn
this over and see if I was right. Ah, got
it right! So it was the hat with the button.
Now normally when you're playing a full game
you don't do them one at a time like that.
We would do the hats but we wouldn't reveal
which hat it is. Then we'll go on to do the
glasses. Now with the glasses it's a little
more difficult. We've removed one. With the
glasses we're only gonna do three piles, and
I'm gonna do these pretty fast so see if you
can keep up. Alright, I think I got that one,
I think I only saw... I'm not gonna say it,
give you a chance - don't rewind! I think
I only saw the monocle once. Yep, it's the
monocle. So, the mustaches you would do two
piles. And finally with the ties you only
do one pile. So you're gonna do all four features
and let everyone construct their scoundrel,
and then we'll all reveal which ones we have,
you'll see probably some people are gonna
have different ones and we'll go through all
of the features and see who got, who got it
completely correct or who got the most correct.
In case of a tie whoever got the thing closest
to the bottom because it's harder to do the
ties since - oh! ties break ties, that's kinda
neat! - it's harder to do the ties because
you only have one stack of cards there. Games
take 5 or 10 minutes. I'll sit down with my
6-year-old and we'll play this game 4 or 5
times in a row. Great fun! Good price point!
This is Mia London and the Case of the 625
Scoundrels. Check it out - you can purchase
it on our webstore for curbside pickup right
now. I'm Kylie at Games Unlimited. As always,
go play some games.
