After each player has gotten their new hand, players reveal their best headline. When making a headline, the headline has to make sense grammatically and logically. The other players judge whether a headline makes sense. Once a headline has been approved a player scores point based on the numbers printed on the card. After everyone has made their headline and scored points, the next player becomes the dealer and a new round begins.
The first player to reach points wins the game. If two players score over points in the same round, the player who scored more points wins the game. Man Bites Dog is a pretty simple card game where players are given cards with words on them and the players have to use those cards to make an interesting headline for a news article.
Man Bites Dog looked like it could be an interesting word game that required creativity and could have been quite a bit of fun. The biggest problem with Man Bites Dog is the fact that your success in the game will come down to who gets the best cards. At first I thought it would be kind of hard to form headlines with random words.
It turns out that it is not that hard since you can usually use at least four of your cards and you will usually be able to use all five cards. Maybe it is just the words that are used on the cards but it is easy to move the words around to make a headline work. This really hurts the game since it removes a lot of the challenge from the game.
This is made worse by the scoring system which could use a ton of work. While some cards are easier to use than others, none of the cards are significantly more difficult to use than other cards. This makes the scoring system in the game pretty stupid since some cards are worth 0 or 5 points while others are worth 50 points.
None of the cards in the game are ten times harder to use than other words which means that getting these high valued cards are crucial to winning the game. Whoever gets the most high valued cards will win the game since a short headline that features a high value word will score more points than a long headline that has only low point cards. Man Bites Dog rewards you more for being lucky and getting high valued cards than actually creating good and clever headlines. To top off the point issue is the fact that getting an exclusive card is key to doing well in the game.
Exclusive cards are way too powerful. Being able to double your score pretty much guarantees that you will get the most points in any given round unless another player also got an exclusive card. I think eliminating the exclusive cards from the game would significantly improve it. The oldest player discards first, and then players discard going clockwise.
Each player may discard up to three cards. After each player has discarded his or her unwanted cards, they are dealt an equal number of cards from the deck to replace the discarded cards.
On each player's turn, he or she creates a headline of up to seven cards in the Headline spaces on the game board. Headlines can consist of any number of blue cards from a player's hand, and up to two of the face-up red cards in the "Extra" spaces.
Headlines may be funny and wacky, but they must make sense given the subjects. For example:. Players are awarded points based on the total point value of the cards played to make up the headline. If a player uses all five of the blue cards in his or her hand on a single headline, that player is awarded an additional 10 points.
If a player cannot make a headline, he or she may pass the turn and discard any number of cards from his or her hand, then draw back up to five blue cards. After the player plays his or her headline, he or she totals the points from the cards played, then moves his or her pawn that many points forward on the game board.
The player then discards all the blue cards on the board into the designated discard pile and draws that many blue cards from the deck back into his or her hand. The red cards are moved out of the Headline spaces back into the red "Extra" spaces, and play passes to the next player. At the end of each round, discard the red cards into a designated discard pile.
Then, if no player has scored points, the youngest player flips over another three red cards to begin the next round. Any player may challenge the acceptability of another player's headline. If this happens all players, except the player who created the headline, vote on whether the headline is acceptable. In case of a tie, the active player may also vote.
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