We've only had the game for a few days, but so far we've played it a total of six times, you figure each game is one hour long, so basically we've gotten six hours of fun for the affordable price of under twenty bucks. So, way less than we'd spend if my family went out to see a movie and best of all, we didn't even have to leave the house. A little bit about the game, it seemed a bit complicated at first. We followed the directions, give each player four cards each from the two stacks, that part was basic, but we ended up folding and unfolding the game play instructions trying to figure out what to do next. Basically, each player tries to level up. Levelling up can be achieved in just a few ways, 1. defeating a monster (which you can only do if you have enough levels, which means you may need to, 2. buy a level, by selling magical items or 3. get a level up treasure card. The game seemed a bit slow at first because each player starts with just one level which is too low to start fighting monsters. But the game picked up when we'd all gotten to level three. The monsters can be defeated by more than one player, so one minute I was sabotaging my son's chances at winning another level, the next we were fighting flying frogs together and sharing in the loot! The cards themselves give you directions, telling you to add 5 to fight a monster (very useful card to use against your opponents) or that certain magical items can only be used by certain characters; dwarves, elves, etc. By the time we played a third time, we knew the game well enough to start levelling curses at each other and how to steal each others treasures. Munchkin has a lot of extender packs, munchkin zombie, munchkin the guild (I just bought this one, yay!) etc. that add to the original game set. Since we play a lot of games here at home, monopoly, settlers of catan, telepathy, zombie dice, risk, etc. figuring out the basic rules wasn't terribly difficult, but I think looking at a few munchkin blogs could prove helpful (yep, there really are munchkin blogs.)
