Our family enjoyed games at higher player counts because working and strategizing together was what made it fun. The first rounds go a little slower, but as players pick up on it, things do start to move along nicely. I already can’t wait for the expansion to drop and I’m really curious to see what Funko Games is going to roll out for us next.

Kids and adults alike will love working together to find the treasure, overcoming challenges, and staying ahead of the Fratellis at every turn.During our last podcast recording, Sean and I started talking about which licenses we would love to see in a Coded Chronicles game including the A-Team and the Breakfast Club.

While these do give a bit of extra content and do give you a slight advantage over a group that misses them, they aren’t integral to the story or to solving the game. There is no reason not to use the first penalty-free hint for any puzzle if you get even a tiny bit stuck. swoon-) Here’s the rogue’s gallery and that octopus looks extra mean, but it’s probably because his scenes were cut from the movie. Gain a GM Token: These Token can be used to Upgrade Rolls, Draw/Play extra GM Cards, or Defend with an End is Nigh Roll with an Hour glass Card.The cards come in assorted sizes but do a really good job of using style, size, and color to help keep track of which card is which. This is important to know — using the first hint on the table for any puzzle isn’t a bad thing and you don’t get penalized for it.

We are a group of passionate individuals who share our love of board games through written and video reviews, articles, and humor, so that others can join us in our journey. Players take on the part of different Goonies while the Gondocks Master sets us a series of nine adventures for our players to experience. In other words, it is superficially that property but once the gameplay is examined it could be any other game. Players will encounter curses, wisps, ghosts, mutated foes, merfolk, skeletons, giant rats, bats, giant spiders, an octopus, One-Eyed Willie, and the Fratellis.It doesn’t add any new mechanics, but it offers a new type of goal and new enemies, as well as a secret that you don’t find out about until after beating the last adventure (so don’t throw out the box until you do). The GM cards can do everything from reactivate enemies, trigger The End is Nigh, or add obstacles to the board. I can honestly say that the most fun we have had sitting at a table playing games with our kids is while playing that first Coded Chronicles game. The Goonies Escape With One-Eyed Willy’s Rich Stuff A Coded Chronicles Game is an escape room in a box style experience that lets you experience the classic 80s movie The Goonies in a totally new way. The stakes are raised in the second story as The Goonies find themselves fighting the ghost of One-Eyed Willy and his Skeleton Pirates.

Grab one of six collectible tokens — Willy’s Eye Patch, Gold Doubloon, Statue of David, Skull and Crossbones, Copper Bones, or the Little Girl’s Bike — then follow the map to the Lighthouse Lounge, play the Bone Organ, and climb aboard The Inferno as you relive your favourite moments from The Goonies! Funko Games continues their track record of fandom based games that capture the details devoted fans will absolutely love. Little nods to the movie, like the GM screen being the treasure map and music sheet are present throughout the game. Yes, the key scenes are there as you would expect them to be but what you will be doing isn’t just recreating what they did on screen. For that puzzle, we just ignored the penalty for failure as we had figured out what we should have been doing and were doing the right thing.For people who have never played a tabletop rpg but wanted to try, this is a less intimidating way to get started.