Eat Flesh (Give Me the Brain!)

Working at a dead-end job sucks.  No matter who you were, or what you did, nobody likes working in the food industry.  The wages are terrible, the customers are rude, and the work is tedious.  So you and your zomb-ployees have come up with a way to make it a little less tedious.  When your manager comes in, he sees you playing Hot Potato with a brain.  He won't stand for fun here, and shouts, "Give me the brain!"

BACKGROUND:  Give me the Brain! is a card game for 3-8 players.  It was created by James Earnest and has been published by Cheapass Games and Steve Jackson Games.  Players take the roles of fast food Zombie employees that attempt to take the Brain and be the first to finish all their jobs for the day.

GAMEPLAY:  At the beginning, or whenever the Brain (die) is "dropped", players can only play purple Bid cards to try to get the brain.  Once a player has the Brain, each player can play yellow Job cards.  All Job cards have 1 or 2 zombie Hands printed, and players can only play up to 2 Hands worth of cards.  Some have black borders, which are Objects.  Objects stay in front of the player when they are played.

BRAINS:  Some Job cards have a Brain with a number printed on them.  These cards can only be played if the player has the Brain.  Once the card is played and resolved, they then roll the Brain.  If they roll equal to or higher than the printed number, they keep the Brain, but if it's lower, the Brain is dropped and bidding begins.  If no player can bid, all players draw a card, and bidding starts again.

SLACKING:  Sometimes, players don't like their hand, or have anything they can play.  If this happens, they are 'Slacking', and can choose to draw a card, or discard their hand and draw the same number of cards in their hand + 1.

WINNING:  The first player to run out of cards in their personal hand wins.

CONCLUSION:  This is a fun, interesting game that plays like a lot of classic Steve Jackson published games, simple but engaging.  The first biggest complaint are the randomness of being dealt a bad hand.  The other is the nature of the jobs themselves, as they can feel counter-productive.  If you can get past that, there's a lot of fun to have in this little card game about Zombie Fry Cooks.