I'll be honest and say the first time I played this, just my partner and myself, we really weren't that blown away. Essentially, it's little more than a high-tech and high raunch version of The Bedroom Game, in which chance directs you to various commands, which you then act out accordingly. Chance in this case being a battery operated wheel whose pointer spins to one of twelve possible suggestions. Seven separate sets of pre-printed commands (plus an eighth blank one for your own ideas) that you can slip on and off the wheel add up to a total of 96 options... which, to refer back to the Bedroom Game again, is again similar.

The difference is, the Sinner's Game takes no prisoners. There's nothing here that is not at least partially XXX rated, whether you are spinning "Neither Here Nor There," which simply directs you to the room where you need to go, "Blow Me! (Please)," which breaks a blowjob down into a dozen stages,"To Third Base and beyond" (you can imagine) or "Do Not Try This At Home" - for which you may need your laptop handy, so you can check on the meanings of a few of the terms. Snowballing, Dunce Cap, Angry Dragon I'm familiar with. But what on earth is a Cleveland Steamer?

Oh.

I see.

Okay....

So, the two of us played and our attention drifted, because sometimes you just don't want to stop, and go back to a silly machine. Well, not that silly machine, anyway.

But then a couple of friends came over... and no, this is not going to degenerate into some awful partner-swapping fantasy. But we share a sense of humor and a suitable lack of shame, and though there's a lot of things that we positively will not do with, to, or for one another... there's no harm in acting them out.

Two sets of instructions are designed for party time. We started with "Take It Off Bitch," in which commands run the gamut from "everyone put something on" (or "take something off"), through to "take something off someone and put it on," and onto my favorite (because it made the boys SQUEAL LIKE PIGS!), "swap underwear with someone." Then moved onto "Risque Drinking," in which almost every command is accompanied by a second order, to take a drink. Spin the wheel, whoever it points at: Talk Dirty in their Ear 'n' Drink. Or... whoever it points at: Fakes An Orgasm 'n' Drinks. And so on until you're doing body shots off one another, and one of the visitors is looking at some of the other sets of commands, and showing her favorite to her partner. Who laughs, blushes and then looks away. I would love to know what it said.

I would love to have played that set....

...and when I return to this game for a second report, who knows? Maybe I will have.