If you want, you can with the cards just play Mau Mau. It will be interesting but only through the special rules that are affected by the various vampire characters. Each player has unique abilities namely that he (not easy with two-sided printed cards: we have done in a cloth bag and pull at the beginning of each round of it) by the random drawing of a character card receives. Changes the game from day to night, the cards are turned over and the skills to change.
Are the new rules internalized, there are other proposals for additional changes. Of course you can all gradually introduce, for example, when playing with younger children. For those who already know Crazy Eights or UNO, it is of course easier, because they only need to learn the special rules.
At a minimum, I would like not specify, but children should dominate and complex games like and can be expected in the single digits. Reading skills are useful to use the skills. Who with UN difficulties, should be of this game, the finger.
The cards are designed very carefully, a little creepy, often funny. All the characters are well nachgestaltet vampires from movies and television. Klaus Kinski as Nosferatu and Morticia Adams I recognized as senior student immediately, but as the vampire with high school cap is unknown to me. Younger ones will go the other way around. And why ask Eric Northman is not present ???
The color scheme is inconvenient for people with color weakness, they must pay attention to the pattern.
As with many games, the game is a couple not so interesting, but it is also. Ideal game is four. For more than four people, you need two games or you share from less cards.
Conclusion: quickly learned a good mix of luck and tactics (Just do not stop with the wrong card!) And for the price a great gift to the next Gruselparty.
