You are playing SURGEONS in FRANKENSTEINS LABORATORY trying to impress him with the bodies you stitch together. Each player has one laboratory area with two operating benches on which to work. Bodies come in two genders (male and female) with six parts to a body (head, torso, two arms and two legs) and they come in four colours (red, blue, green and yellow - the serum types used to reanimate the body bits).

Bodies that are more complete, and matched for gender and colour gain more points at the end of the game. The surgeon player with the most points wins. Simple?.....not quite.

If it was a race to put body bits together then there wouldnt be any f our favourite player interactions. So in your turn (pick two cards to add to the five in your hand and then play two) you can use surgery cards to steal opponents bits and put them into your, or other players areas. But time it wrong and the body part becomes infected - meaning its worthless and cannot be taken by surgery again until its disinfected by carbolic spray.

You can bring in Master Surgeons to help who become specialists for heads, arms, torsos and legs and allow parts to be delivered non-infected and protect certain bits whilst they are there. Of course, they too can be stolen and taken to some other area to work. Deflection cards can stop this, redirecting nefarious actions towards other players.

The game ends when one player completes two bodies, or the deck runs twice through. The second run through though is very quick as there are no body parts left and just a whole host of actions.

Its a quick to learn game of serious backstabbery and competitive surgery.