Curse Road. Every player for themselves

1. 

   Everyone rolls at once

   Each player taps their own die (it shows 0 to 3), and all the figures hop together. This is when you play cards and your hero’s power. Every third round the Grimoire takes a turn of his own, and he always goes after the leader.

2. 

   The space decides what happens

   A campfire lights a lantern, a chest gives a lantern or a card (or bites), a trap blows one out. There are also curses, tailwinds, bogs, magic portals and challenge spaces where you call out the leader.

3. 

   A mini-game for everyone

   The player furthest behind picks one of two mini-games. Everyone plays it at once on their own phone, with the standings shown live.

4. 

   The worst loses a lantern

   The worst living player loses a lantern (with six alive, the worst two), and the best one gains a lantern. Anyone left without lanterns becomes a ghost.

5. 

   Ghosts keep playing

   Ghosts set traps, curse the living and play every mini-game. A ghost who beats every living player comes back once with one lantern.

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  Tap storm8 seconds of hammering a button as fast as you can. Most taps takes first place.
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  Lightning reflexWait for the signal, then tap. Tap too early and you come last.
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  Sharp eyeSixteen icons, and one of them is different. You get one try.
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  One mindA prompt with four answers. Pick what most of the living players will pick: the bigger your group, the better.
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  Color spellMemorize a sequence of colors and repeat it. The closer to the castle, the longer it gets.

Six more: “Tower stack” (a block slides above your tower — tap at the right moment; whatever overhangs is cut off, and the tallest tower wins), “Stop the sign” (stop a swinging marker in the green zone three times), “Rune hunt” (tap the glowing runes, not the skulls), “Bat count” (how many bats flashed by?), “Ghost trail” (trace a winding path with your finger without slipping off) and “Color muddle” (tap the color of the ink, not the word written). All of them work on a computer with a mouse or keyboard too.

• Nobody sits out

  Run out of lanterns and you become a ghost: you set traps, curse the living and play every mini-game. With a good result a ghost can even come back.

• Leading is hard work

  The Grimoire always goes after whoever has the most lanterns, while the player in last place picks the mini-game. So the lead keeps changing until the very end.

• Curses complicate everything

  An upside-down screen, a mirrored one, three seconds of darkness or butter fingers that count half — and that is exactly when you have to hit the runes.