A fun game for horror fans of all ages (Boney Head)

Member Name: LornaGreen

Product:	Boney Head
Date:	16/05/09 (17 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: it glows in the dark!

Disadvantages: I wish there were more bones with it. But I suppose I can always just play it again....

Ive always enjoyed these simple little games of skill best of all. Boney Head is a cracked open battery operated plastic skull (with glow in the dark eyes!) into which you place glow in the dark bones that have cute faces and points numbers on them. The bones are in different sizes- the bigger the bone, the more points. The game is wonderfully uncomplicated to assemble and play.

Players take turns to remove a bone from the head. If you carefully remove a bone without Boney Head laughing creepily, you score the amount of points on the bone. If he laughs (triggered by some kind of movement sensor) it's the next persons turn....the laugh sound effect is really quite loud, and it has been known to give people quite a shock if they aren't expecting it! (If the noise is a problem I've found it can be muffled to a more sensible volume by putting a towel or similar under it where the speaker is.....)

Its a fairly versatile game in it's basic way, and can be played with any adaptations and rules you can think of. The sensor in the skull can be adjusted in sensitivity from easy to really quite difficult (but never impossible).

The best thing of all is to charge it up under a lamp, switch all the lights off and play it in the dark with the bones glowing. Then the game becomes progressively more difficult, as the bones are very good at glowing initially but gradually fade, and bones that have been exposed to less light are only patchily visible...

Summary: a great halloween game for people who enjoy things like buckaroo and pick up sticks.