Verflucht!

About this board game

Verflucht! (Cursed!) is a cooperative card game for 1–5 players that plays in about 15 minutes. At Lord Sommerset’s estate, ghosts, werewolves, headless horsemen, and other nasty creatures are waiting for the right moment to attack.

Players draw cards from a shared face-down area. Green item cards go into players’ hands without revealing their values, while red creature cards are placed face up in the display. When possible, the group must use one or more items to expel a creature, with the total value of the items played meeting or exceeding that creature’s value.

Communication and careful planning are essential, because valuable items can be wasted if players do not decide who should deal with which threat. The creatures also become more dangerous as they gather. When the sixth creature enters the display, the most powerful creature present attacks. An attack also occurs when the creatures form a group through their numerical values.

• Cooperative play for 1–5 players
• Quick sessions of around 15 minutes
• Face-down item and creature cards with hidden item values
• Seal cards that can clear the display when the group cannot defeat an attack

Attacking monsters must be expelled immediately. If the players cannot do so, they must use a seal to expel all the monsters, after which those creatures are reshuffled with the remaining face-down cards. Since the number of seals is limited, using them too early may leave the group unable to survive the night.

The players win if all face-down cards have been drawn and every attack has been successfully defeated. In Verflucht!, unused seals are placed on the creatures still in the display, and the total value of those remaining creatures becomes the team’s score. How low can you go?