Spy Alley Mensa Award Winning Family Strategy Board Game

Enjoyed playing this game. Not too long, not too short and definitely need to be strategic.

Great game, we enjoyed playing it with family! Its the only game that my family actually wants to play again and again!

Great game for the entire family

Good Clean Family Fun!! We have played it a handful of times. Good interaction and conversation. Its Must Play if you are looking for critical thinking and challenging interaction.

My family loves this game! Easy to learn and enjoy, although we make up rules as we go. Makes it fun for the kids and mixes up game play. Takes a while to finish but that just means more fun! Love it!

The family had a great time playing the game. The only thing I would like to see improved is the directions how to play the game. We consulted some YouTube videos to answer some questions we had.

The kids LOVE this game. We take it camping & it probably gets played at least 2x a day. At home, on game night, it is frequently a first choice. Bonus, the adults enjoy playing too. Great game of strategy & bluffing.

Having 4 kids that could use some brain exercise, my wife and I thought this sounded like it would be worth a shot. We played it a couple times without the kids so we could get a feel for the game and learn the rules. A few things to note: you make more moves by drawing cards constantly rather than by rolling the dice, but the dice play is fun as well. Basically, everyone draws a secret identity (like Clue? It's been too long). Once you collect enough traits for your character, you can go down spy alley instead of around the board and if you land on your space you win, but while you're in spy alley, since the other players can see the traits you've collected, they can guess your character and if they're right, you're out. So you have to spend some time throwing them off your scent by collecting traits for dummy characters as well. Then if you go down spy alley and another player accuses you of being the wrong character, then they lose. This gets real interesting if you stack up the dummy character traits but another player actually has that character so they know you're lying. But you don't know who knows you're lying. It's actually a pretty simple game once you learn the moves, but no two games are alike for sure.The game forces you to make unique choices and your success doesn't require luck. You could say your success depends equally on having a plan AND being pragmatic. The real challenge is the bluffing, and I really like poker, but this is a lot of bluffing. I suppose there's a life lesson in here somewhere, something like if you're going to expose a spy, you better be right because if you're wrong, suddenly the only spy is you? Yeah.Also, the box is strangely tight, but maybe it won't fall apart like all the other "classic" board game boxes do.