Ghost Court
All rise… from the grave
Designer: Jason Morningstar | Artist: Richard Sala
WHAT’S IN THE BOX?
► A simple rulebook
► One-minute and three-minute timers
► Four tarot-sized role cards
► 30 cases (including tarot-sized defendant, plaintiff and summary cards)
Ghost Court bills itself as a ridiculous improvisational party game about a spectral small claims court and, while it certainly fulfils the first few parts of the description, there’s room for debate over whether it really counts as a game.
In true legal fashion, however, it seems that the fair thing to do is to examine the evidence to see how well each one of the game’s claims are supported.
First, we have ‘ridiculous’, and luckily all the evidence we need for that can be found in the setup – a courtroom where a ghostly judge presides over cases concerning undead spirits. Sometimes this means a dispute between a recently evicted poltergeist and the human who bought her house, or it could be an argument between two ghosts over haunting rights.