Zombie House Blitz

I was going to make this into a “How to Play” but instead, I think I’ll do something a little bit different. Mainly because this game is still in its Kickstarter phase and if I wait any longer to post something you all won’t have a chance to get in on the ground (shambling) level. So! Go check out the fun over at the Kickstarter link and maybe put yourself down for a set of cards. Or, perhaps you’d like to be immortalized as a zombie. Go ahead…I’ll wait.

OK good. Now let me explain a little bit about this Crazy Zombie Blitz Card action game. Jeremiah Lee showed up to the last Games Library Day with two full games of these cards and a bunch of us gleefully sat down to play test this very new game. It’s sort of a combination of Speed and Solitaire. But with Zombies.

There are several different types of cards: Zombies (of course), Cars, Shotguns and People. The People are arranged from 1 to 6 in four different suites (two red and two blue). Initially, the Zombies, Cars and Shotguns are separated out leaving only the People cards. Some of the People deck are shuffled out into a face down pile that supplies your ‘solitaire like’ stacks while the others are rejoined with the Zombie, Car and Shotgun cards. The rejoined deck becomes the hand you cycle through by threes to try and fill in the gaps of your solitaire place holder piles. So essentially, the area in front of you is very much like playing solitaire except you get fewer piles of cards to work with than in actual solitaire. And whenever a Zombie pops up in your hand that you are cycling through it has a good chance to eat a person.

This is bad.

Meanwhile, whenever a Car comes up you can lay it in the center of the play area. As soon as a car is placed, anyone can start adding People on top of the car (starting with a number one person whose suit is the same color of the car) until all 6 People of that suit are “in the car”. That car is full up and “drives away” (the top card is turned over to indicate no more People will fit in the Car).

Eventually, someone will exhaust their face down draw pile, at which point the game is over. Points are scored by determining how many People you were able to get into the Cars (each player’s deck has a different colored back so you can tell who placed what person) minus how many People didn’t make it into cars or the Zombies wound up eating.

I may not have scored very high because it’s really hard to keep track of which suit is at what number in the cars at the center of the game area while simultaneously playing a shortened game of solitaire. Did I have fun though? Oh yes. If you like card games and want something a little bit different that you can play fast paced with up to 4 people, this is a pretty awesome game. Plus…zombies.

-JQuirk