We used the theme to spark our imaginations - and on family walks I would pretend to be The Ogre and race everyone to the treasure waiting at our house. The most common type of card gives the letter of one of the rooms in the mansion, including the two new rooms in the cellar. To play a game of Ghost Fightin’ Treasure Hunters with the Creepy Cellar expansion you start by placing the new Cellar Board next to the original game board. Due to this a lot of what you get in Creepy Cellar actually replaces what you have in the base game. Some of the cards lock certain color doors and others require you to add more ghosts to the mansion.

At the start of the game (and with every re-shuffle), all the doors are open, and all players can freely pass through them. Players roll dice to determine how many spaces they move this turn and whether a new ghost is added to the board. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Also, I think it’s only fair to mention, before getting into details about Creepy Cellar, just how much I love the base game Ghost Fightin’ Treasure Hunters. At one point, there was also a stand-alone Ghost King expansion that was only available via Board Game Geek.It’s like a super streamlined version of Flash Point: Fire Rescue will all of the fiddly crap removed and lots of FUN and excitement as been added! The end result is that when using the full expansion rules for Creepy Cellar, Ghost Fightin’ Treasure Hunters becomes a much harder game requiring a lot more teamwork. Toy animal vehicle: This LEGO DUPLO My First Animal Train set comes with three removable carriages and four farm animal toys for children 18 months and above.

However, every turn, each player draws from the deck a card that can lock doors, or more likely, place a ghost on the board. There are a lot more tokens in this game, all with symbols on them, and we were able to pick up what they meant after referencing the book just once for each. Watch our reviews, listen to Top 10 lists highlighting the best games in different topics, and learn what games might just be your next favorite game. You can fight the hauntings too, but you have to have two treasure hunters in the same room to do so. As you move and play, you continue to turn over additional ghost cards that have letters on them for which room you are required to add an additional ghost.I think this is a good thing as those cards were really punishing in the Advanced and Nightmare versions of the base game. Without the rocket ship, the poisonous snakes, and the mole rat astronauts, Mole Rats in Space would just be a cooperative chutes and ladders.

They mention that it's a really great game for the family, and that the cooperative style of play teaches kids an important lesson in teamwork.Every single turn comes with a chance to add a new ghost to the mansion, and if three ghost pieces (very awesome ghost pieces) are in the same room, they are replaced by a spooky haunting piece. You also get twelve new Cursed Treasure tokens which replace the original eight Treasure Tokens from the base game. This is nice in a kids’ game, as a “good run” can be enough to turn the tide for less experienced gamers. For example, the “draw two ghost cards” curse shows two cards, the “you can’t use trap doors” curse shows a trap door with your standard circle and a line symbol over it. Second game we won after lots of back and forth battles and random events that dragged us around the boards, and a focused team effort to cull haunters and therefore avoid a last-second chain reaction as we made our way to the exit.