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Inside the box is an association party game where players need to guess what’s inside the box.
Every round one of the players becomes the leader and finds out which package others have to find. The leader gives their associations, while others have to make a guess.
On the board there's a 5x5 grid of package cards.
Each round one player (the leader) takes a card showing a placement of the right package. The leader then takes two category cards and places them one by one between the "plus" and the "minus" cards. These are their associations concerning the connection of the category with the right package.
Now other players make their guesses: they can put their tokens on one of the cards, in-between 2 cards or even in-between 4 cards.
After each guessing phase the leader adds one category to the board.
When the players are out of their tokens, the leader reveals the placement card and explains their associations if they want to – the round ends.
Each player gets victory points for their tokens that were placed anywhere near the right package, while the leader gets the points for each player's closest guess.
The first player to get 25 points wins.
- Different mechanics from other party games
- Can create random fun stories
- Found it restrictive
- Limited communication hinders discussion
- Not a classic party game
- Questions can become repetitive
- Codenames
- Wavelength
- Deception: Murder in Hong Kong
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deduction — Players place tokens on a grid of pictures to represent categories, and others guess the clue-giver's intended picture.
- grid placement — Tokens are placed on, adjacent to, or in the corner of pictures on a grid.
- Limited Communication — Players cannot discuss their choices until the end of the game.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- everyone we've been busy playing games
- we have these games that we've been playing in between heavy games
- I'm Stella and this is Teran from Maple University
- that's it that's is everything ever which is Teran is unbeatable
- Great Well Done Taran
- it'll get you in the Christmas spirit
- we will be doing our top games of 2023 but we want to wait until the very last minute until we make the video
References (from this video)
- Engaging discussion
- Clear idea of axes-based evaluation
- Rules may be less exciting than other party games
- Mind Map
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- axes_based_placement — uses axes to place objects on a graph with placement rules that differ from Mind Map
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Simple to play
- Simple to learn
- I quite enjoy this