Really Nasty Horse Racing Game 
Product Description: - Enjoy a day at the races when you play this devious horse racing game. Just as in a real race meeting, players race their horses around the board to win at all costs. Be devious, bet on your own horse or someone else s, but don t tell anyone whom you ve bet on. 12 Years +
Customer Ratings: - Best. Board Game. Ever. I bought this as I was looking for a new board game - something I hadn t played before and something that wasn t the normal sort of boardgame that people tend to play.
Let me tell you - one game of this and you ll be hooked. It s so good I bought a 2nd copy of it to keep safe just in case I wear the original out and the company end up going bust.
The basic premise is that you ve each got a horse, there are 6 races/cups with varying prize money levels and you have a choice of form (1-6) that can only be used once. There are also lane cards that dictate which racing lane you will be in for that race.
Do you use your best horse on the cup with the biggest pot or do you go against the grain and save your best for that dead cert low end pot that nobody else will bother with?
Based on your lane and your form the odds chart is drawn up, you are able to make one bet per race (its secret till the end of the race), you can get money from either winning the race with your own horse or betting on the winner.
Sounds pretty straightforward doesn t it?
That s where the Really Nasty cards come in.
There are several fences around the course, there are Really Nasty cards that allow you to make a rider fall from the horse, losing the race. You ve got a bet on the winner? he s almost there and happens to land on the last fence with your opponent betting on the horse coming in 2nd you may find that your dead cert ends up dead in the water.
Fantastic game, needs to be played by adults as it can get quite heated and emotional. Turns the regular idea of the board game on it s head.
I can t recommend this enough. Buy it now. - C MON RED !!. This game was recommended to me for Christmas by a friend from work. The idea is that you each own a horse (different colours) and will enter it into 6 races. The winner is the player with the most money at the end. You get awarded prize money if your horse wins a round... The beauty of the game is that you are allowed to bet on any horse on the board and keep it a secret until the end of the round which can make you more money! (You always get a vain one though who invariably bets on their own horse :) )
The game isn t called really nasty for nothing though! At any time a player can intervene and use their really nasty cards to slow a horse down, cause a horse to fall perhaps or dispute a finish (and more). I have to admit that this game won me browny points with the mother-in-law .... I allowed her to stay mounted despite the fact that I had a Faller at Briars Brook nasty card.
Excellent family fun !!
- Destined to be a classic. Destined to be a classic? For many it already is. I ve been playing this for nearly twenty years now and it never disappoints. It s certainly not a quick game but accompanied with wine and a decent lunch it will easily keep 6 adults entertained for the best part of an evening.
Newcomers to the game probably find it a little slow at first, the rules can appear complex (although they re soon grasped) but it takes a while to build up a sense of the strategy required to win big, not least because regular players know to hang back with their nasty cards until the later stages when the stakes are considerably higher.
This is the most sociable board game I know, a true original, considerably more sophisticated than Monopoly and similar standards and always a real pleasure to have out. I can only echo the comments of an earlier reviewer though who said that this current product doesn t do the game justice, the original may have been expensive but the substantial contents of the box were reason enough. if I were giving stars for the quality of this set it d probably get two, but for the game itself five is not nearly enough.
- Played once and now definitely in my top 5 games.. This is a simple game to learn but has real depth. The balance of random chance and skill is exactly right, and tactics, psychology and bluff all play a part. A major aspect is that the prize money can take second place to what you stand to win by betting on someone else. Watch your opponents faces as you make your own horse fall at the last fence after seeming an easy winner. Most of all, it s FUN FUN FUN!
Six pencils and solid pieces would have been better, but this is a game we will be playing a lot. - My kids love this game.. I bought this game at Christmas and we have played it as a family three times now. The first time involved a lot of looking at the rules but we completed it after 2 hours. Subsequent games have taken just over an hour.
I recommend the game because everyone is involved from the start to the end. No-one has to drop out at any point in the game. True it can cause your nearest and dearest to nobble you and my youngest can get quite upset when he falls at the last. I prefer this game to Monopoly which goes on too long and can end up being played between only 2 players.
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Really Nasty Horse Racing Game (ID: B00006G8E7)
