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Nug as the Abbess at Hallowe'en games night!
The abbess - with a vengeance.
The "Guards" (Abess and Prioress)
What comes in the box.
Designer Fréderic Moyersoen explaining the game.
Look! That one on the left! It moved! I swear!
The prioress - upset at having to get up to chase down yet another novice.
Jenni's nervous that the guards will figure out where she is while contemplating her next move. It was a tense and exciting game!
Pretty Nuns on the run at South Arlington Gamers

Nuns on the Run (2010)

Players
2–8
Best: 5, 6
Playing time
45–60 min
Age
10+
6.49
Average rating
4,316
Ratings
2.07/5
Weight
#2574
BGG rank
Top 5,000
Designer:Fréderic Moyersoen
Artist:Jared Blando, Jacob Chabot
Publisher:Mayfair Games
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 5, Luck 7, Interaction 9, Complexity 4.1, Theme 6
Strategy5.0
Luck7.0
Interaction9.0
Complexity4.1
Theme6.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

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Overview

In Nuns on the Run, most of the players are novices who are eager to secretly explore the grand abbey at night in order to fulfill their “secret wish.” They sneak through corridors searching for keys and treasures. (What treasures could a novice be searching for? Forbidden cookies? A soft mattress? Or narcotics? Or a book of witchcraft?)

While sneaking through the abbey, the novices must remain watchful for the Abbess or Prioress, who are on patrol to ensure that pure novices remain that way. These characters are controlled by other players who want to nab the novices before they can make it back into bed.

Players play either as a novice, or as the Abbess or Prioress. The novices move in secret and avoid being seen or heard by the Abbess or Prioress. The goal is to make it to the location on the board where the novice can get her "secret wish" and return to their room without being detected. All of the novices move in secret by marking their movement and locations on hidden sheets. The Abbess and Prioress move on regulated paths around the board, but can diverge and chase down novices that they see or hear. The player or players who complete their secret wishes and return to their rooms win, or the Abbess and Prioress win if they catch a certain number of novices.

Expansions

Nuns on the Run: The Anchorite
Nuns on the Run: The Monk
Mayfair Game Variants & Mini-Expansions Set #2
Mayfair Game Variants & Mini-Expansions Set #1
Nuns on the Run: Father Fréderic
2 Nun 2 Run (fan expansion for Nuns on the Run)
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