The Groundhog Gambit Review, A Holiday Hijinks Escape Room Style Game set on Groundhog Day

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The Groundhog Gambit is the sixth and biggest game in the Holiday Hijinks series of escape room games from Jonathan Chaffer. It's double the length, taking approximately two hours which can be split over two sessions. This review is one segment of episode 229 of The Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, Kickstart My Heart, watch it here: https://youtu.be/-AqmwX33d6A Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/tabletopbellhop?sub_confirmation=1 Please consider tipping your Bellhop: https://www.patreon.com/tabletopbellhop Disclosure: Thanks to Marc from Grand Gamers Guild for dropping off a copy of this game during a trip through Windsor and for being a sponsor of the Tabletop Bellhop gaming podcast. When shopping Grand Gamers Guild be sure to use our code BELLHOP to save 10%. ******************** Timestamps: 00:00 THE GROUNDHOG GAMBIT OVERVIEW 01:55 COMPONENT QUALITY IN THE GROUNDHOG GAMBIT 02:58 HOW THE GROUNDHOG GAMBIT IS PLAYED 04:45 OUR THOUGHTS ON THE GROUNDHOG GAMBIT 12:48 WHO SHOULD PICK UP THE GROUNDHOG GAMBIT? 14:06 CLOSING AND WHERE TO FIND MORE ******************** From the publisher: It is a cold February day in Timely Manor, and you are trapped inside. Can you escape before time itself falls apart? The Groundhog Gambit, title #6 in the Holiday Hijinks line, is an 18-card escape room experience for 1 or more players, takes two sessions of about 60 minutes each to solve cooperatively, and introduces a new interactive objects mechanism to gameplay! When you have solved a puzzle, you will enter the answer into the companion web app (compatible with all smart phones and computers) and check whether you are correct. If you are, the app will tell you which card or cards to take next. The app also contains a graduated hint system, so if you get stuck you can get just a small hint about the current puzzle to get moving again without giving too much away. Puzzles may test your perception, wordplay, and lateral thinking. English language fluency is required. You can write on the cards to help solve puzzles, but this is not required and the game is otherwise non-destructible. So while you can’t play again yourself, you could give the used game to someone else to play. ******************** Head over to the Tabletop Bellhop blog where you'll find more tabletop gaming content, including game and game night advice, reviews, and more: https://tabletopbellhop.com Sign up for our newsletter: https://newsletter.tabletopbellhop.com Pick up The Groundhog Gambit from Grand Gamers Guild: https://grandgamersguild.com/products/the-groundhog-gambit Be sure to use BELLHOP to save 10% off. Find us all over the web: Dice.camp: https://dice.camp/@TabletopBellhop/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tabletopbellhop/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/tabletopbellhop Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tabletopbellhop/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/tabletopbellhop Discord: https://discord.tabletopbellhop.com Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/tabletopbellhop.bsky.social