{"id":22227,"date":"2022-04-29T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T00:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=22227"},"modified":"2022-04-10T13:14:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T13:14:35","slug":"unplugged-pac-man-the-card-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/29\/unplugged-pac-man-the-card-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Unplugged: Pac-Man: The Card Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As many of you may already know, I\u2019m a huge fan of Pac-Man.\u00a0 So when I saw this Pac-Man card game, I had to get it and try it out!\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how long it\u2019s been out, I got it on sale at Amazon for 5 bucks.\u00a0 But I figured I\u2019d review it anyway.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a bigger picture of the front of the box.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s the back.<\/p>\n

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To play the game is super simple.\u00a0 You place the shuffled deck in a pile and 2 to 8 players take turns drawing cards.\u00a0 Whoever draws three ghost cards first loses.\u00a0 Then whoever is the last one standing wins.\u00a0 There are other types of cards, too.\u00a0 Dot cards are like filler and don\u2019t do anything.\u00a0 Other items like bonus fruit act as special cards you can activate during your turn to do specific things like make opponents draw more cards or switch your hand with another player.\u00a0 The rule sheet inside the box explains all this, so make sure to keep it handy since the cards don\u2019t have any of that on them.\u00a0 Here\u2019s an example of what a hand might look like.<\/p>\n

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The rules also show you how to make the deck before you start playing.\u00a0 There are two types of decks: simple and advanced.\u00a0 The simple deck arrangement has less power-up cards and is good for beginners or younger players.\u00a0 The advanced has more power-ups and such.\u00a0 When you play with 8 players, you combine both decks!\u00a0 Just make sure to shuffle the cards well, like with any card game.<\/p>\n

Some may complain that this game is pure luck-based, and there\u2019s not much to it.\u00a0 And that\u2019s certainly true.\u00a0 Since pretty much everyone has heard of Pac-Man, they had to make this game appeal to the lowest common denominator so anyone can enjoy it.\u00a0 But if you need a game to play with a wide range of age groups, or if you just want something to kill 15 to 30 minutes, this one does the job.<\/p>\n

Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since there are no words on the cards themselves, no reading skill is needed to play.\u00a0 But someone in the group should still know how to read so they can check the rules sheet.\u00a0 Because there are multiple difficulties in the decks, even pre-K kids can probably enjoy this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As many of you may already know, I\u2019m a huge fan of Pac-Man.\u00a0 So when I saw this Pac-Man card game, I had to get it and try it out!\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how long it\u2019s been out, I got it on sale at Amazon for 5 bucks.\u00a0 But I figured I\u2019d review it anyway. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unplugged-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22229,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22227\/revisions\/22229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}