The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. There are also mini bosses, which have more icons on them that you’ll need to match, and event cards that can make you discard your hand, pass your hand, and do other things to slow you down. For some people, the only problem they will have with this game is figuring out how to pick up all the cards flung into the middle of the table and resort them.

You’ll lose if time runs out, if no one can play the cards in their hands, or if everyone has run out of cards. We stopped using a count-down timer and started just using a count-up timer to see if we can beat our personal best. This makes 5-Minute Dungeon an easy game for new players to join, even if they are not hardcore gamers. If we don’t have a game you are looking for it please contact us and we will do our best to help you. In this instance, I bought 5-Minute Dungeon ("5MD") in my "dad" capacity but have a pretty good idea of how it will play out with my game group.

In truth this game couldn’t be anymore simpler, even a 5 year old could understand it, which in the case of my son, this is 100% correct. Teamplay is essential and it is nice to see how you evolve together to improve your tactics and get faster every time. Communication and teamwork are critical to survival because there's no time to form a carefully considered plan — and no predicting what dangers lie ahead. If you fail open all the doors and defeat the final boss card in 5 minutes, your team has lost the game.

This fast pace game is for between 2-5 players, I prefer it best with 4 but it definitely holds up well to all player counts.This happens almost every door card since we’re all just throwing down our colored cards as soon as we flip the next door card. At the end of each dungeon is a powerful dungeon boss — and after the first boss is defeated, the campaign continues to the second boss. Similar to Munchkin, the basic gameplay loop is kicking down a series of doors with some challenge to be defeated with the cards in your hand. But to reach him, your party will first have to deal with the 20 Door Cards in your way, each representing a new challenge you must face.