Of course, you’re doing this all in real time at an intense speed, so the game oftentimes becomes somewhat hard to “enforce” rules-wise. For example, the suturing with the tweezers is actually pretty funny and fun to do, but making the house of cards to set up the body scanner is somewhat frustrating to accomplish. The tasks also vary wildly in difficulty and in how interesting (and funny) they are. I’ve only played with adults so far, but I suspect it’s a little too much for younger children.

For the most part, they’re pretty intuitive and do a good job of simulating concepts from an actual operating room, like examining a patient, putting drugs together for an injection, suturing up a wound, and so on. They are completely different, and a lot to remember up-front when you first play the game. The concept of the game is simple enough, but what is difficult is remembering the eight types of tasks. There is a soundtrack (done through an app or an MP3) that beeps incessantly to simulate the patient’s heartbeat and occasionally flat-lines or is interrupted by a telephone call (these are handled by the app, or by cards if you are using the MP3). The game is a real-time cooperative game for up to nine players, where players form teams of doctors who each have to perform eight tasks in under twelve minutes to save a patient and win the game. Reading the rules was the next step, and I found that they were clear and concise, with important points highlighted appropriately. It’s clear as soon as you open this puppy that this is not your normal board game.Ī cartoon representation of the game laid out. Then, I opened the box, and I found some cards and tiles, like usual… but I also found a whoopie cushion, four pairs of tweezers, nine hair nets, and loads of other craziness. Doctor Panic‘s box seemed normal enough, although with some fantastic cartoony artwork. (Yes, seriously.) Review Sometimes, I get review copies of games I know very little about, and my first impression of them is literally looking at the box and then opening it. Other Negative Themes: The game is perhaps slightly unsanitary? It comes with hair nets, and one event has players wiping each others’ foreheads.

Drug/Alcohol Use: None, unless you count medicinal drugs. Sexual Content: There is a board of a naked (male-looking) chest on the operating table. Language/Crude Humor: One of the three fake medicines in the game is horribly titled “ Penistrit.” (I suspect this was a translation accident.) There’s a whoopie cushion in play (used to simulate a heart for resuscitation).

A few events simulate scary situations for the operating room (e.g. Violence: None, though needles might be scary. But Doctor Panic takes this concept to a whole new level… Content Guide Positive Content: None, other than the consideration of saving someone’s life–a very positive theme. Eureka, which involves moving large plastic balls between test tubes to make a particular pattern, and Spinderella, a children’s game where a spider hangs on a string over the board. He’s already broken my philosophy that games exist outside their components with titles like Dr. And it seems to be the goal of French designer, Roberto Fraga, to break them all. Yet, board games seem to have adopted unwritten rules outside of the rules, about the kind of games that should be made. Price: $39.99 My connection between my study of mathematics and board games has always been that they are both simply a list of rules, existing eternally outside of the means (technology, components) we use to study or play.

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