Driving Me Crazy
- Board's Eye View
- 12 minutes ago
- 2 min read
You've booked a holiday home for you and your friends. Problem is, not all the bedrooms are of the same high standard. You're keen to get there before your friends so you can claim the best bedroom for yourself. That's the premise for Dixon Block's Driving Me Crazy, published by Simplexity Games.
Driving Me Crazy is an easy-to-play family-friendly card game for 2-10 players where each turn you'll be playing a card from your hand. You are placing out cards representing 50km or 100km stretches of road, and the winner will be the first player to complete a road length of exactly 1000km. Of course, it's not quite as simple as playing out road-length cards: some of the cards give you special booster actions (additional card draws and/or card plays) or 'take that' actions to hinder another player.
Inevitably everyone will want to play 'take that' cards that impede the progress of the player with the longest stretch of road but the game prevents too much ganging up because you can't target a player who is already affected by a 'take that' card. That means nobody is safe from 'attack' in this nonetheless good-natured card game.
Attractively packaged in a box that looks like a bus, Driving Me Crazy can be played by almost anyone straight off the bus/out of the box. The only complication is that the iconography on some of the special effects cards isn't always immediately obvious; so expect to have to refer to the rulebook to decode the cards, at least on your first play of the game. And with an average playing time of around 20 minutes (30 minutes at higher player counts), this could be a great choice of family game for the holiday season.
