How bad could a lab romance be? Well, you might be responsible for both you and your Romeo/Juliet surviving (that’s the player next to you). Your success, or failure, is now added in consideration for your final score. You can only do this once per game and you cannot return it if you don’t like the new objective it sets for you. On your turn, instead of choosing one of the usual turn options, you may instead choose to draw a Lab Romance Card. In addition to the initial game set-up, eight (8) Lab Romance cards are shuffled and stacked face-down in the middle of the table. It’s hard enough trying to determine what the antidote could be, however, now you need to consider the workplace politics. Shakespeare would have loved it.Ī deadly toxin has been released into the lab. Eight of Shakespeare’s most tragic characters have been used to create new objectives for players, drawing upon the soul of the characters themselves. The Lab Romance expansion captures this perfectly, changing a simple elimination game into a more complex array of dependency and subterfuge. Every play, every sonnet, every word was directly related to the human relationship with another.
If there is one thing Shakespeare truly mastered it was the depiction of human behavior and our complicated web of relationships.
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I wrote a full review of the game for GeekMom, but today we’re looking closer at the expansion pack. While one or two games are built around Shakespeare’s craft of “putting on a show,” my favorite is Antidote and its Lab Romance expansion.Īntidote is a card game based on the process of elimination with an added hand of deception. Play: Antidote (Bellwether Games) and the Lab Romance Expansionĭespite Shakespeare’s everlasting impact on our literary and theatrical lives, there are few games truly inspired by his brilliance. However, challenge accomplished! If you have any crazy DIY ideas, leave them in the comments below and I’ll see what I can do. To be honest, there is no way I could have made this collar look as good as William the Bear. Wave-fold the paper to create the ruffles.
What you need to DIY your Shakespeare Ruffle Collar.Tie off at both ends to loop into a collar.Continue folding and stitching to your required length (for this William the bear, I used about ⅓ of the roll).When you have a couple of inches of wave-fold, take the needle and thread and stitch through the top corner of the wave fold, pinning it together.I found it best to use the perforated line on each square as a reference point for one of the folds.