Since the reader had to give the card to the other team, they might need to ask for it back to answer an enquiry, which can cause laughter and a break of immersion. Lateral thinking problems are identified by a diamond on the question side of the card, indicating that answering team are allowed to ask "yes/no" questions about the puzzle scenario. The rules below are some of the exact directions that came in the original packaging and will teach you how to play MindTrap.

MindTrap 10th Anniversary Edition (2001) - same as the original game but comes in a 10th Anniversary Edition tin. I honestly think the game would have been better off just keeping track of how many questions each player got correct and that player would win the game.Extremely mainstream games like Monopoly often have ‘house rules’, which normally make the game faster, or get around problems that are baked into the game’s design. Yes, the ‘without moonlight’ line implies that it is daytime, but that doesn’t mean that there is light. The following list of clever, tricky questions will have you and your friends scratching your heads and wondering just how intelligent you are. MindTrap is a game played in teams, which can be as small as a 1 vs 1 puzzle battle, or as large as the playing room will allow. I honestly could see just eliminating the game element entirely and just reading the cards like a puzzle book trying to figure them out as a mental exercise.

Use trick questions and brain teasers for bonding between employees in your office, avoiding boredom, and to challenge your friends. As the time machine powers down, a scientist opens its door, only for a brand new, seemingly identical board game to fall out too. If there was a storm going on that was bad enough to take out the power, surely it would be dark outside, even in the daytime? This still doesn’t fix all of the problems with the game but it does make it more enjoyable than the original game. So, we have a fairly standard party game rulebook, but in the same way that questions in the game can be vague and open to interpretation, the rules are light on rigid certainty.

If the current team is incorrect, the other team is unable to ask questions before submitting their answer. I understand the need for this rule, since players could start making real logical leaps to justify their answers, but this hardly seems fair to a team that stated a valid answer, but scored no points because it wasn’t the one that the game had come up with. In my games, we did bend the rules, and allowed people to have another go, or a different question, in situations like this. Riddles like those in MindTrap rely on the use of small pieces of information that seem irrelevant at first, but are vital when you come to find the answer. After playing MindTrap and MindTrap 2 I am left wondering if they should be considered games as well.