And Now For Something Completely Different... The Board Game

What is And Now For Something Completely Different... The Board Game

The game plays like Snake & Ladders on Spam.

Players line their markers on the “It’s” starting space, roll the die, move forward and try to reach the last space, an illustration of the Python foot. Should a marker land on certain spaces (rose stems and very long, Terry Gilliam-cartoon-like, winding arms), it goes backwards or forwards a certain number of spaces. A pretty simple, straightforward fare up until now, right? Right!

Now the Pythonian fun begins... Several spaces along the track are special and come in three different varieties: Task, Trivia and Character Type.

Task spaces require the active player to draw a Task card and perform the task described on it (e.g. Explain your theory on spontaneous combustion in which must be included goats, a kettle, Venus, a jelly babies and a sock with a hole in it). The other players then vote on the active player’s performance and, should the vote be positive, he gets an Award card (more on them later).

Game details

Players

2–6

Age

+8

Duration

60 min

Difficulty

Light

Type

Board game

Year

1999

Mechanics

Roll / Spin and Move

Categories

Humor · Movies / TV / Radio theme · Party Game

Designer

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Publisher

Susan Prescot Games