- Number of players: 3 to 6 / Play time: 60
- Manufacturer: Steve Jackson Games
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Model Number1468SJG
Number of Game Players6
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Admit it. You really like to combine all your Munchkin sets . . . the stupider things get the better. Playing Star Munchkin Cthulhu Booty Zombies is really weird and really fun . . . but it can also slow things down. There are a lot of ways we COULD have addressed this problem. But this is Munchkin so the solution we chose was to create a lot of really overpowered new cards. Why be a Super Munchkin when you can be an Ultra Munchkin? If a Half-Breed isn't enough you can be a 1/3-Breed. And if a single Cheat! card doesn't do it for you you can Cheat With Both Hands! There are also a lot more monster enhancers . . . and ITEM enhancers too. There are several new low-level monsters to help you get those easy kills. Until somebody takes that Sock Puppet and turns it into the Ultra-Rare Extremely Sneaky Sock Puppet With Extra Cheese . . . Munchkin till you drop -- just add players! This is a supplement not a stand-alone game. It is meant to be combined with two or more Munchkin games with or without other supplements. Also We Think 7 Is a Neat Number This set replaces both Munchkin Blender and More Good Cards which was the original Munchkin 7. We didn't want to reprint More Good Cards because it was only 56 cards and most of those were originally from Munchkin Blender anyway. We didn't want to re-use the name Blender since this new set -- by popular demand -- has the classic Munchkin brown card backs rather than Screaming Purple Cards. And we didn't want to eat our vegetables because vegetables are yucky. We hope you are confused now because we are too . . . but we thought it would be SLIGHTLY less confusing to release a new Munchkin 7 than to call this expansion Munchkin 8 and have frustrated people writing us for the rest of our lives asking Why can't my store get Munchkin 7 in stock?
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I bought this as a stocking filler for my other half who has the original game and all previous expansion packs. We have only played it twice since then but have come across some of the cards - all are the same quality as the previous packs, witty and well-illustrated. Worth purchasing if you are a fan of the game.
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I recently decided not to use this expansion any more when playing with my munchkin buddies. Read on and you may decide this expansion is not for you.
I got together with my friends after purchasing a copy of munchkin 7 and shuffling the doors and treasures into my existing munchkin deck (consisting of cards from Munchkin 1-5). My friends had played Munchkin before but our first game that included Munchkin 7 was definitely the worst. The game moved very slowly. We were having a very hard time finding any monsters in our door deck and it seemed like everyone had more wandering monster cards than they knew what to do with. Whenever a monster did come up it was soundly crushed because there were enough cheat cards to go around that everyone was totally overpowered. Consequentially, no one needed to ask for help and the game became a lot less interactive.
After that night I sorted through all of my munchkin cards and did some statistical analysis using Excel. When you combine the first 5 munchkin expansions, the ratio of the different card types pretty closely matches the ratios found in the base set by itself. But once you mix in Cheat With Both Hands, all the ratios get messed up. The probability of finding monsters drops by 6+% etc. That's why I've decided not to use this expansion any more.
If you are combining munchkin fantasy with several other munchkin sets and are looking at truly massive decks, then maybe the effects of adding CWBH won't be so noticeable. But I'm only using fantasy and in my case, Cheat With Both Hands disrupted the relative balance that my munchkin group enjoys.
I got together with my friends after purchasing a copy of munchkin 7 and shuffling the doors and treasures into my existing munchkin deck (consisting of cards from Munchkin 1-5). My friends had played Munchkin before but our first game that included Munchkin 7 was definitely the worst. The game moved very slowly. We were having a very hard time finding any monsters in our door deck and it seemed like everyone had more wandering monster cards than they knew what to do with. Whenever a monster did come up it was soundly crushed because there were enough cheat cards to go around that everyone was totally overpowered. Consequentially, no one needed to ask for help and the game became a lot less interactive.
After that night I sorted through all of my munchkin cards and did some statistical analysis using Excel. When you combine the first 5 munchkin expansions, the ratio of the different card types pretty closely matches the ratios found in the base set by itself. But once you mix in Cheat With Both Hands, all the ratios get messed up. The probability of finding monsters drops by 6+% etc. That's why I've decided not to use this expansion any more.
If you are combining munchkin fantasy with several other munchkin sets and are looking at truly massive decks, then maybe the effects of adding CWBH won't be so noticeable. But I'm only using fantasy and in my case, Cheat With Both Hands disrupted the relative balance that my munchkin group enjoys.
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