I hadn't heard of Texas Zombies until this weekend. I was at Silver Spring Hobby Shop for their all day gaming day for January and left for some lunch. Upon my return, I happened upon a table of people telling ridiculously funny stories. Since no other games were starting soon, I watched them for a while and had some good laughs.
In Texas Zombies, you play with other teammates as one of two student groups on a field trip from The University of Texas. You are either part of "Beta Lambda" or "Darwin & Dragons".
Each player receives a team card face down that is not looked at or disclosed until the end of the game.
During each player's turns they will draw a card from the Event deck. On the back of each card is a number. The number of the next card in the deck is the number of Object cards out of the three in their hand that they will have to use to explain in less than a minute how they successfully escaped the event listed on the card they drew.
After their story, each other player playing holds out their thumb, parallel to the table. On the count of three, they all turn the thumb up if they believe the story is convincing or down if they do not. If half or more of the votes are Yes, the player succeeds and keeps the card. The player than draws back up to three Object cards.
The game ends when the last Event card is drawn and the active player must use all 3 of their Object cards.
At this point, players add up their cards won and flip over their team card. The team with the most total events won, wins the game. There is slightly different scoring for games with an odd number of players.
I haven't played this one yet, but hope to give it a try soon and recount how it goes.
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