Fugdale’s Funhouse

Review: This game has a very simple premise, but playing it well involves a lot of observation. You start with a grid of 16 dice. Each die has one of four colors. Each time you click on a die, the number showing increases by one (in the case of a six, it flips to a one). However, all the other dice of that color also flip up to the next number. You need to find three or four dice in a row (vertical or horizontal) that form a straight in either direction. The straight has to be in order, but can be any direction and you cannot continue past the number six to form a straight with the number one.

The game seems very simple at first, but trying to determine where to click can get quite boggling. The first few times I played I ended up making accidental straights all over the place, but rarely where I intended them. You start with only ten clicks, but you can earn more clicks by forming straights. A lot of the game depends on luck of the draw. You will find that clusters of same colored dice create little clusters which you can’t do much with, so concentrate on rows where the dice all have different colors. Sometimes setting up one straight will cause a chain reaction. Each time you create a straight the dice will disappear and get replaced with new dice.

The game won’t appeal to everyone, but it has a very short play time so you can try it out a few times and see if you like it.