Shifty Eyed Spies
Shifty Eyed Spies is a game that encourages you to wink at other players but in a sly fashion! Placing you in the roles of spies looking to make intel drops with other spies. Placed in the corners of the playing table are four locations, the subway, the cafe, the newsagents and the water fountain. Each player takes a spy token indicating their colour.
On a player's turn they can take new cards or make a delivery. Taking new cards means a new target card and a new location card. The target card lets you know who you are delivering to, as in who you have to wink at before your next turn and the location card lets you know which location you need to glance at if someone winks at you.
Should you complete your drop by winking at someone and working out which location they glanced at, at the start of your next turn you announce 'I delivered to blue at the newsagents' then both you and blue reveal the relevant cards and add them to your score pile. Get five cards and you win!
BUT! And it's a big but! If you are spotted winking at a player by another player they have two options:
1 - Intercept you.
2 - Intercept the whole drop by waiting to see where the winked at player looks.
The advantage of waiting is that should you succeed, you get both cards for two points but someone else might sweep in and steal. The other disadvantage is you only get three chances to do this in the whole game - so you'd better make sure you are confident!
Shifty Eyed Spies can be hard to grasp at first but after you have been round the table once everyone gets it and falls into furtive glances trying to suss out where others are winking while slyly winking themselves. It makes for an excellent party game with just the right amount of laughs and just the right amount of game.
Player Count: 4-8
Time: 20 Minutes
Age: 9+
Shifty Eyed Spies is a game that encourages you to wink at other players but in a sly fashion! Placing you in the roles of spies looking to make intel drops with other spies. Placed in the corners of the playing table are four locations, the subway, the cafe, the newsagents and the water fountain. Each player takes a spy token indicating their colour.
On a player's turn they can take new cards or make a delivery. Taking new cards means a new target card and a new location card. The target card lets you know who you are delivering to, as in who you have to wink at before your next turn and the location card lets you know which location you need to glance at if someone winks at you.
Should you complete your drop by winking at someone and working out which location they glanced at, at the start of your next turn you announce 'I delivered to blue at the newsagents' then both you and blue reveal the relevant cards and add them to your score pile. Get five cards and you win!
BUT! And it's a big but! If you are spotted winking at a player by another player they have two options:
1 - Intercept you.
2 - Intercept the whole drop by waiting to see where the winked at player looks.
The advantage of waiting is that should you succeed, you get both cards for two points but someone else might sweep in and steal. The other disadvantage is you only get three chances to do this in the whole game - so you'd better make sure you are confident!
Shifty Eyed Spies can be hard to grasp at first but after you have been round the table once everyone gets it and falls into furtive glances trying to suss out where others are winking while slyly winking themselves. It makes for an excellent party game with just the right amount of laughs and just the right amount of game.
Player Count: 4-8
Time: 20 Minutes
Age: 9+
Description
Shifty Eyed Spies is a game that encourages you to wink at other players but in a sly fashion! Placing you in the roles of spies looking to make intel drops with other spies. Placed in the corners of the playing table are four locations, the subway, the cafe, the newsagents and the water fountain. Each player takes a spy token indicating their colour.
On a player's turn they can take new cards or make a delivery. Taking new cards means a new target card and a new location card. The target card lets you know who you are delivering to, as in who you have to wink at before your next turn and the location card lets you know which location you need to glance at if someone winks at you.
Should you complete your drop by winking at someone and working out which location they glanced at, at the start of your next turn you announce 'I delivered to blue at the newsagents' then both you and blue reveal the relevant cards and add them to your score pile. Get five cards and you win!
BUT! And it's a big but! If you are spotted winking at a player by another player they have two options:
1 - Intercept you.
2 - Intercept the whole drop by waiting to see where the winked at player looks.
The advantage of waiting is that should you succeed, you get both cards for two points but someone else might sweep in and steal. The other disadvantage is you only get three chances to do this in the whole game - so you'd better make sure you are confident!
Shifty Eyed Spies can be hard to grasp at first but after you have been round the table once everyone gets it and falls into furtive glances trying to suss out where others are winking while slyly winking themselves. It makes for an excellent party game with just the right amount of laughs and just the right amount of game.
Player Count: 4-8
Time: 20 Minutes
Age: 9+
