Picture Perfect Review

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Party guests dressed to the nines circulate around the dinner table. Meaningful glances are traded, rowdy children are scolded, and a spunky corgi winds its way through guest’s feet threatening to upend the decorative plant in the corner. As the photographer for the evening, you puzzle through each of the guest’s requests to plan the group photo at the end of the night. Some only want to be seen near certain people, others only like the lighting in specific spots in the room. Can you please them all before the camera clicks and everyone says “Cheese”?

Picture Perfect is a puzzle and deduction game for 2-4 players.

Each player of Picture Perfect is set up with their own 3D party room diorama, with a cardboard table, decorations, and standees representing the 14 party guests. Around the table a grid is marked on the floor, showing the spaces that the standee characters can occupy. For each character, there is an envelope loaded with 3 cards, the cards showing the character’s secret posing preferences. Maybe they can only be on a certain side of the room, or near a certain character. Some will specify that their face must be blocked, or that they can’t be seen near characters of the opposite gender.

These secret preferences are revealed slowly throughout the game, through a series of action cards that guide how the players pass the character packets around. Will you get to see new information, or be bounced back the same packets that you just tried to pass on?

After a set number of rounds, each player takes out their own camera and captures a perfect shot of their finished diorama for scoring. The final score is awarded based on how many requests each player was able to successfully fulfill, and the winner gets the