The world-famous game “Ghost Blitz”, played by millions of people, is now available for the smartphone and tablet! One object on the card is colored incorrectly; therefore players must be the first to grab the correct colored object.

German publisher Haba is an expert at making kid-friendly games that are equally as fun for adults. You won’t find any Candy Land or Don’t Wake Daddy levels of dross in a Haba game. Geistes Blitz (or Ghost Blitz) continues this trend by providing a pattern-recognition game that’s easy to grasp and fun to play, no matter your age. Each player takes a turn to draw a card showing a combination of a either a bottle, mouse, chair, book or ghost. These images represent the wooden tokens placed in the centre of the table (each one in the shape of one of the items listed above), one of which must be grabbed each turn. The grabbable item is determined by one of two factors: if the card drawn shows it coloured correctly (e.g. a green bottle) or,if it represents the only aspect not pictured on said card (e.g. none of the items are red, or a chair isn’t pictured). Yoink the right one and you win the card, select the wrong one and lose you points. No doubt about it, Geistes Blitz is loud, proud and a blast to play. And Ghost Blitz is the kind of game you can get better at. Whenever I introduce new players, I usually make them play two games (they go fast anyway). I’m normally able to fend off all comers in the first game with ease; the second, third, and fourth games? Much more difficult. For the second card you would grab the Green Bottle. Since both objects are miss-colored, the green bottle is the only object not represented on the card (neither green nor a bottle is shown on the card) The second rules variation is a shouting version based on the card illustration. It adds an extra step to make your brain hurt just a little more. If the book is shown you then must shout the correct answer, otherwise you grab the right object like normal.Now, using one hand, you try as fast as lightning to grab the desired item that is depicted on the card in the matching color, e.g., the blue book or the red chair. As there is nothing green on the card and there is no bottle. It sounds really easy but when you are playing against each other it is not as easy as it might appear. We advise you play the Ghost Blitz Game somewhere where you can laugh and shout freely! Here are the rules: I witnessed a hardcore strategy wargamer, an eight-year-old, and my non-gaming mother-in-law enjoying Geistesblitz equally. Downsides? As I mentioned at the start of this review, however, speed games are especially susceptible to finding “the wrong crowd.” Not everyone likes games of reflexes and recognition, and Ghost Blitz, charm notwithstanding, is decidedly a game in this camp. As such, it is a game that reveals a skills chasm between players. Players who are naturally faster at reading a situation will generally perform better than players who aren’t. If players are super competitive and don’t like to lose, it can drain the game of fun. But in most of my groups, if players are just interested in having a good time, Ghost Blitz will satisfy them. Lookin’ good, Ghost!

Can be played alone or with friends, on the road or on a party – now “Ghost Blitz” is always there when you need it! If you are the first to grab the correct object you take the card and add it to your collection. But if you hurriedly grab the wrong piece then you not only lose the card everyone was vying for but you must also sacrifice one card from your collection and give it to the player who grabbed the correct piece. If you have no cards to give then nothing extraordinary happens.

In this case, then you grab that item that is not depicted and whose original color is not shown on the card.