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During the week long break (At Sun it's a week long holiday between Christmas and New Years), we have lots of time at home to play games.   At the Lamere household we have some rather stringent gaming requirements: the game must allow for 5 or more players (4 kids, mom's not a game player), age range 10,14,15,16 and 45, so we have to avoid the extremely complicated rules, need a 1 hour playtime, and have a high entertainment factor.  This year's game of the year by far (well, we never got to the other games, we've just played this one, we've had so much fun) is Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the magic carrot.  This is a card game where you have to acquire the magic carrot, while keeping your bunnies alive (and trying to destroy your enemy's bunnies).  It's a lot of fun.   The best part of the game is the player interaction. You can threaten, bribe, weedle and  whine your way through the game. Making deals and finding leverage is the only way to win.  You also find out interesting things about each other. For instance, I found out that my 15 year old daughter would rather sacrifice all of her and her siblings bunnies to a nuclear strike (and virtually eliminating any chance of victory for any of them) rather than give in to blackmail.  Woah!