Indie Boards and Cards | The Resistance: Avalon | Card Game | Ages 14+ | 5-10 Players | 30 Minutes Playing Time

One quick "trial round" and you should be good to go. If you're not sure, have a poke around for "Resistance - Avalon" on YouTube to see how it's played. Honestly, it's such a fun experience as you try to ascertain who the "Minions of Mordor" (aka bad guys) are. It encourages open dialogue, leaving you staring into your friends eyes to see how honorable they are (or not!). In my opinion, this game is best suited for 6-7 players. The 5-player board is a too tough to work out who the bad guys are in time. And 6/7 players sits comfortably in the "need to think it out" zone. 10 players (the maximum), and it becomes more of a headache, than a fun experience! If after a few rounds you're finding it seems like perhaps the bad guys or good guys are winning too easily, you can introduce different styles of players. For instance, the Wizard, Merlin (who's a good guy) knows who the bad guys are... So he has to convince his fellow good-guys to pick the right team each time. Twist is, if the good guys win, then at the end, the bad guys get to take a guess on who Merlin is. If they get it right.... The bad guys win! So it's a subtle role that needs to be played well. And there's a similar character for the bad guys. But you get the idea ! We find voting a little cumbersome, but it is important. I would say have a thumbs up or down policy rather than pulling out additional cards. It comes in a very portable box, so ready to take away on a weekend with friends for that quieter night. Brilliant. Can't recommend it enough !

The Resistance is one of the best games I have played and I play a lot of them, what makes it so good is that most games require often clunky mechanics or rules to force something that should be natural. In the resistance there are not many mechanics and instead human nature kicks in and makes it very interesting for those who play games all the time and those who never play games. The game is fast paced and fun, it can have people rolling on the floor laughing, on your knees pleading with someone to make the right choice and in some games shouting at people calling them liars..... It is fun when you start and if you keep the same players over time you see tactics and more depth to the game then you would imagine but is also inviting to new players and easy to pick up. I think a real test for the game was when my partner had a birthday party and near the end of the evening when the numbers dwindled to about 9 she came in with Resistance. I tried to put it away as it was my geeky side that i did not want everyone at the party to see. I lost the fight and was forced to setup (which takes about 1 minute) and start to explain the rules, I was using words that are in the rules like "Go on missions" "pass or fail a mission" "Squad leader" the girls were just laughing and saying how geeky the game was. I quickly wrapped up and said it was Cluedo but in teams and started the game. Within a minute or two everyone started to realise the game was not about the mechanics or using the playing cards or little gun tokens but human interaction, working as a team and lots and lots of lying. Some of the girls were shouting at each other "you’re the bad guy" - "No you must be" Others instantly started talking to each other, "Who do you think is telling the truth?" and coming up with plans of who they would send on missions and trying to find out who was good or bad. That is the genius of the game, most people know how to speak one another, try and get their point across, read body language and emotion. That is the main part of the game and only once you have played a lot more you realise the little mechanics in the game will help you but not break you. I would and have played this game, with hard-core geeky nerds, normal members of society and my family and every time it has been fun and different. Buy this game!

A well-produced game of bluff and deception that we play infrequently as it requires at least 5 players, and preferably more (about 7 is good, I'd say). It is based on the game Resistance but is (obviously) themed around the King Arthur and Mordred story, and it has additional mechanics (e.g., via the addition of Merlin - more of him later). Artwork is excellent and the entire package is not too large and so is easily transported. Players receive a character card (kept secret) that will be either allied to Arthur (good) or to Mordred (evil). Some of these characters have a special ability. Each round a player acts as king and chooses who goes on a mission. Arthur's side want the missions to succeed, Mordred's want them to fail. And that's basically it. 3 success and the good guys win, 3 fails and the bad guys win... The game play is interesting - there's plenty of opportunity to deceive and the game is fast and fun and intriguing from the very start; if you're good you don't know who to trust - unless you're Merlin, who knows exactly who the evil players are but who must not give away his own identity as, if the evil players correctly identify him, they win the game). Given that the game lasts around 30 mins, it's good that players are never eliminated - everyone plays throughout. This is a family game that genuinely engages all ages - even my 7 year old son enjoys it; the game mechanics are simple and the layers of sophistication/complexity lie with the players and their bluffing/deducing. A great game!

Juego interesante y divertido, original. Venía en perfecto estado.

Great game for 5 to 10 players

An excellent social deduction classic, still fun even after being around for over a decade! Cards are printed on sturdy material and the box is compact but still provides more than enough room for all the tokens needed for the game. Make sure you buy from legitimate sources, watch out for counterfeits!

Muy buen juego para jugar con toda la familia. Las reglas pueden parecer algo complejas al inicio pero despues de 2 partidas es muy facil entender el concepto del juego, lo que mas me agrado de este juego a diferencia de otros como Salem o Wolf Night es que las partidas no son ni muy largas ni demasiado cortas y que ademas todos los miembros del juego siguen jugando hasta terminar la ronda, asi que no tendras a nadie sentado y aburrido esperando que termine todo. Las piezas son de buena calidad y tiene un arte muy bueno, super recomendado para tu coleccion de juegos de mesa! Planeo comprar la version Avalon tambien :)

The seller did a very good job on delivering the product as soon as possible. From USA to India, this product arrived a week earlier than expected. Back to the real deal, this is a fun game. Though the basics of the game are lies and framing others, but it is fun to work it out who the spies are. However, that is the basic things which you must also remember before playing this, it's just a game. Obviously your friends would not trust you, and be framing you too in the process. So, chill and relax. It's not worth fighting over it.