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SeabassDebeste posted...

i remember hearing about spy party. it sounds utterly fascinating. i also think there's absolutely no way i'd be able to succeed at either role.

Yeah, this is why I wish SpyParty had an option to buy it as a 2-pack - I think it's best to try to learn this game with another player so you can grow and learn at the same time, because that kind of helps preserve the early learning and discovering phase of the game, which I think kind of has its own joy to it, I liked the early part of this game when I didn't know what was going on and I was basically just making my best guesses at who the spy was, without thinking about all the super complicated ins-and-outs. I'm very happy to teach SpyParty to new players, but it's tough because it's like stepping onto a tennis court with Serena Williams when you don't know anything about tennis - your only hope to score a point on her is to hope she double faults for no reason, at least at first. I do think that it's not too hard to learn this game though, I think you can begin to play it as a reasonably competent level after a couple of hours. At first, playing sniper is befuddling because there's so much going on and playing spy is tricky because you don't really know how to act properly, but I think it comes naturally pretty fast. But learning from a veteran is hard as spy (it's not too bad as sniper, since there's only so much I can do as a spy and you can still catch me, since there'll be some handicaps).