Are you looking for a game which is very quick, cards only, and competitive? Loose In The Library is for you! It’s easy to play on the go (thank you LNER trains and many pubs for the opportunities to playtest), fills the shortest of gaps (a game for two could be 10 or 15 minutes), and is perfect for schools.   

The game is set in a cursed library, where a long-suffering Senior Librarian keeps finding escaped literary terrors roaming the shelves. You are the library apprentices, and you have been set a number of different challenges. Who will be the first one to capture the Kraken, Fenrir, or Grendel’s Mother? Or terrors with specific symbols? Or use a fictional object? Each challenge is worth points, as are the terrors themselves. You’ll have both public challenges for which everyone competes (pale green cards), and private challenges which you’ll score only for yourself at the end (pink cards).

Draw book characters into your hand, looking for the right combination of symbols which will allow you to capture the terrors currently visible in the middle of the table. You’re after Martian Robots? That’s two red hearts and two green ovals, please. Luckily Anne of Green Gables and Marie Curie have you covered, swooping in with a simultaneously excitable and no-nonsense approach!

Succeed in capturing a terror, and you get a reward. It may be a magical object, or a piece of helpful library equipment — such as the photocopier, which allows you to duplicate symbols on your book cards, or the library clock, which gives you an additional action.

Loose In The Library could be considered as a small set of games rather than a single game. There are three chapters, with the possibility of more to come. Each chapter uses the same cards, but has slightly different mechanics. Chapter 1 is the base game. Chapter 2 introduces negative points. Chapter 3 includes drafting. Play them all, then decide which one will become your standard version!  

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