Welcome to Girls Game Shelf. We're playing Avalon today.

This is a role deduction game. Super fun. Super secretive.

Every person is dealt a different role card. You don't know who is who.

You can be Merlin. You can be an Assassin or a Minion of Mordred which is EVIL.

Or you can be a good guy. (Which is the pretty blue color with blue eyes!)

But nobody else can know if you are good or bad.

You have your Fail and Success cards and your secret voting cards.

And then you have your quest chips.

Everyone takes a turn deciding who is going to go on a quest.

And when you decide on your people, maybe three people or so, everyone else votes whether or not they should go on the quest.

So if you think someone's bad, you don't want them to go on the quest.

NO! I think that person is a Minion of Mordred! I reject this quest!

But it stays hidden, so nobody knows you reject it.

Or you approve it.

So depending on who you are you are either going to approve or reject this quest team.

Once we decide if "Yes, we're going on the quest" or "No, we're not"...

The team decides individually if the quest is going to be a success or a failure.

Good wins if they successfully go on three quests.

Evil wins if they stop good from going on three quests

Or if at the end of the game they figure out who Merlin is and assasinate him.

And that's how you play.

Christina- "Everyone knows who they are? Good and bad?"

Christina- "Hands in."

Christina- "Eyes closed"

My favorite moment is when the assassins reveal themselves.

Christina- "Minions of Mordred, open your eyes!"

Christina- "Minions, close your eyes."

Christina- "Minions lift your thumb up. Merlin, open your eyes."

Well I got to play Merlin so that was pretty cool. Even though it was my first time and I didn't know what I had to do!

I knew immediately when I pick people to go on the quest, to pick the right people.

Christina- "Everybody, hands down. And Everybody open your eyes."

Michelle- "Jill, you should chose me for a quest because I'm good."

(laughter)

Christina- "So basically you get to chose two people, maybe even yourself to go on a quest."

Michelle - "Well if you're good, choose yourself"

Michelle- "Okay, oh, alright. So what happens is we each take a success and a fail card. So go ahead."

"We're going to secretly choose which one it is. Since we're both good, it's super simple, you just put your success right here."

(laughter)

Michelle- "So the way that we play normally is the next person get's to choose."

Christina- "That sounds fair. So... Marie..."

Maria-"Let's switch it up."

Michelle- "Oh an assassin would say that!"

(laughter)

Christina- "Ready?"

All- "OOOOOHHHHHHH"

Maria- "That's interesting."

Christina- "Nobody trusts you!"

Michelle- "Oh see!"

All- "OOHHHHHH!"

Okay the moment that just killed me was when we flipped up that double fail.

Because I knew. I knew that the jig was up.

Like, Michelle was definitely not an assassin and she knew both of us were.

Like it gave us away. And I was just like "Oh! The game is over!"

Christina- "FAIL."

Michelle- "Well now I'm excited that I know who two of the assassins are."

Christina- "Talky talk talk talk talk. That's what you're doin right now!"

Merlin. Assassins. No problem.

I'll just tell everyone. And then we'll know.

That's not the way it worked out.

Melissa- "One, two, and then one more?"

Christina- "She hasn't gone. Looks nervous."

Melissa- "Okay let'd do it."

Christina- "Not everyone is such an extrovert, Michelle!"

Michelle- "I'm just saying, if you knew you were good though."

Maria- "Oh I didn't even think about that."

Michelle- "Yeah, because you're an assassin as are Melissa and Christina."

Maria- "I just realized that I was Fing myself by putting in the wrong card."

Maria- "Oh because if you're good you always have to put good in."

Michelle- "You have to put in a success"

Maria- "I didn't think about that."

Michelle- "yeah."

Christina- "Going! Yay!"

Christina- "So you guys, who are going on the quest get to do your little challice-y things."

Christina- "Oh we forgot to hand out the little shields."

"You're going. And you're going."

Christina- "I like this. Makes me feel like a magician."

All- "oohhhhh!

Michelle- "As an assassin you were able to put an assassin in. Like SARA."

Sara- "gasp!"

Michelle- "Oh my god! You're so bad at lying!"

Michelle- "Now there are two fails, so one more fail and we lose."

Michelle- "There do have to be two fails on this next one. So two assassins have to go on this one."

Michelle- "So I have a feeling that the people who are good include you, me.."

Christina- "Michelle. Michelle.. Do not try to inform her decision. EVIL ONE."

Christina- "You are trying to manipulate this situation so that you will make us all fail."

Michelle- "Assassin."

Christina- "Alex, you have to pick the.."

Alex- "I have to pick 4 people."

Christina- "The good people."

Alex- "One, two, three and four."

Michelle- "I'm fairly certain that that's okay."

Michelle- I love that we don't even really specify about the quest."

Michelle- "It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter! We're going to go, we're going to win. It doesn't matter."

Christina- "I'm so curious who you are really. WHO ARE YOU REALLY?"

All- (except the assassins.) YES!

Michelle- "Good crew! Good crew!"

Michelle- "I don't trust you at all."

Christina- "Of course you don't. You're an assassin. I'm a good guy. Our types don't mingle."

Jill- "My favorite moment was being with a group of people and laughing and guessing and it wasn't at all stressful. It was just really fun.

Michelle- "This is the last one, so if you want. Oh no you can play it front of us. OWN IT."

Christina- "Oh really?!"

Michelle- "Oh own it!"

Christina- "Ok. Ready?"

Michelle- "This is the last one. 1,2,3, own it."

Michelle- "TOLD YA"

All- "AHHHHHH!"

Maria- "I wanted to switch it!"

Christina- (Evil laugh)

Christina- "Wait who are you?"

Michelle- "Who do you think Merlin was?"

Maria- "I thought you were."

Jill- "When does Merlin say...When would that happen?"

Christina- "If the good people win then the assassin"

"the person who gets to be the assasin is like BAH HA, I will kill YOU, MERLIN."

Michelle- "But I'm not."

Christina- "You're not?!"

Michelle- "No. I'm just really good at this game."

Jill- "You're Merlin?"

Michelle- "I thought it was actually Alex."

Christina- "And then we were the assassins. YAY!!!"

Michelle- "I called it immediately."

Maria- "I totally thought you were Merlin."

Maria- "You thought I was an assassin!"

Michelle- "You didn't choose yourself for your quest! And then you looked legitimately sad afterwards...

"..that you hadn't thought to choose yourself. So I was like, alright. Yeah, we'll give it."

"And then I mean, Sara couldn't..."

(laughter)

Well, my least favorite part of the game was most likely losing.

Uh, I loved the game. I love the nature, like the collaborative free form talking part of the game.

And I just love how fast paced it is and how easy you can jump in without having any experience with a game like this. You can just roll with it.

Oh I love the game. It was fast, easy to learn, it was my first time.

I love the fact that you can get a whole bunch of people together and you start playing and everybody can suddenly be friends right away.

I liked, LOVED, the game because I just love getting so into it. All the strategy in it and um.

Even though I didn't know the game at first, you get to know the game as you go along.

I would put it on the shelf definitely. I'm thinking of buying it.

Oh on the shelf, definitely.

I would put it on the game shelf, immediately take it off and maybe play again. Because, we need it.

Shelf it. I would shelf it for sure.

Let's put it on the shelf!

Definitely on the game shelf, I would put it right on top, ready to reach and bring out for parties.

So there you have it. 7 girls played it. 7 girls loved it. It goes on our game shelf. It's a winner.

Join us next week when we're going to be playing King of Tokyo. See ya then!