When Brian and Gregory receive an invitation to stay at a distant relative"s strange mansion . . . well, they should know better than to go. Such trips rarely go well, and this mansion is even stranger than most. Uncle Max doesn"t really know what century he"s in. The butler boils socks. And the attic houses the Game of Sunken Places - which looks like a board game, and most of the time acts like a board game, but is hardly an ordinary board game.