From the Manufacturer Confusion takes players back to the early 1960s and the Cold War between the United States and the USSR. Each player takes on the role of their selected nation's spy agency: the CIA or the KGB. At the start of a game of Confusion, players aren't aware of the talents and skills their spies possess. Your opponent can see what your spies can do, but you cannot. Your job as a wise leader is to first deduce exactly how each of your spies move, then employ your knowledge by using each spy for maximum effect. But be on alert, because your opponent has placed a double-agent in your team of spies. The first player to take the Top Secret Briefcase from the middle of the board and deliver it to his opponent's side of the board is the winner.
B**N
Great fun, somewhat tedious
This game is great fun, my friends and I have played it multiple times, even multiple times in one day. The only flaw I would have with the game is that it is too tedious to mark every move you and your opponent makes on a board and if you accidentally rub up against your tracking board, you lose all your information. I really enjoyed when I played, but I can't see myself playing too much without making some house-rules to lessen the time it takes to find out information about a pieces. I would recommend it to people who love games that combine the rules of stratego and guess who. Odd combination, but that's basically the game.
K**K
A Good Time
We a had a great time playing this game. The best part was that it was adaptable to style of play. It was the serious game that the thoughtful minds of cut-throat players wanted but it was also flexible enough to accommodate light-hearted competitors. I am not a serious game player, so if I am going to play something with my husband or son it had better be interesting and fun to appeal to me and, well, there is nothing they like better than the chance to stab one another in the back. This game was it on all fronts.
T**A
Highly Recommended
A very fun game for playing and watching others play. The rules are pretty basic, but the more you play, the more you find different strategies and ways to extract the most information.If you buy this game, get lots of extra dry erase markers. I have had the game for 4 days and the ones in the game are out already.
N**O
Fantastico game
This game is a good game. Chess for the blind. If I had a complaint, it is that this is not a very social game. Expect to bury your head into your notes, and keep your head in the game, without much chit chat.
C**G
A thinking game of Chess, Checkers, Reverse Stratego, and Capture the Flag rolled in one game
First off, the game components are awesome. You have plastic pieces that need to fit in other pieces. This way, you create your opponents pieces.Game play is exciting. You are moving a set of spies with the objective to capture a Briefcase and bring it to your opponents side. The challenge that is "reverse stratego" is you don't know how to move your pieces. You have to try to move them and your opponent will provide info on legal and illegal moves. Even more challenging is a "double agent" question mark which your opponent can allow you to move or not move.Here's where the components rock...it comes with a booklet to track player movements; yours and your opponents. This helps so you know how you tried to move your pieces and your opponents. They are booklets with dry erase markers. It's easy to track and follow, so you can continue to focus on movement, and not logistics. No need for paper and guesses...awesome.Unlike Checkers and Chess, there's no one strategy that works every time...since your pieces' movements change with each game, you have to adjust. Also, there are optional rules included, giving you ideas on how to tweak to your own comfort level.Stronghold has shown with a few other games, they are serious about quality (see Code 777 and Survive Escape from Atlantis). It's a bit pricey, but once you see the quality, you'll be hooked.
S**N
Really nice one
A chess-like game with some very nice pieces. The only thing we had trouble with was figuring out whether an "up" arrow meant forward or backward on each other's pieces! Once that is done, it is a very easy game to play. I also like the idea that each game starts with the pieces in a different order (it has to do this of course otherwise there is no deduction left to do!). We've only played one full game so far and need to play more to figure out strategy etc.As someone who has played quite a few board games I can strongly recommend this for anyone who likes simple rules but reasonably complex gameplay with a strong theme informing what is essentially abstract gameplay.
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