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- Replay Value (1-10): 6
- Fun Factor (1-10): 6
- Worth Buying (1-10): 4
This game is a bit like "Outburst-lite". There are these cards
that have words with something in common -- you can see the examples
in the photograph above if you click on the pictures enough to see
the huge ones. Every round there is one questioner and one answerer;
the questioner looks at the card and puts chips on the spots labeled
A, B, C, D on the gameboard. The game instructions spend two paragraphs
to explain to you that you have to have stacks of 2, 3, 4, and 5 chips.
The answerer gets a short timer to exclaim as many answers they can think of,
and each answer guessed earns that stack of chips. After time is up, all
the other players get to make one guess in order to get some of
the remaining chips. Finally, the questioner earns chips based on what
the players didn't get.
I like the game concept a lot, actually -- it's a good basis for a
party game, and it plays reasonably fast.
But boy oh boy, did someone miss the "User Interface Design" boat on this
one. You're supposed to use these chips -- except that they always have
to be in stacks of 2, 3, 4, and 5. That would make sense if there was
a large repository of chips and people count up all their chips at
the end -- but no, instead, you immediately convert chips into spaces
on a scoreboard (which, you'll note, doesn't even have enough room
on the Start space to fit all the pawns). The rules take way too
much text to explain something simple.
I should also point out that the cards could use some fact-checking.
One of the cards we got had words that rhymed with FINGER. The answers?
SINGER, RINGER, SWINGER, LINGER. Well, at least they didn't put GINGER
on there...
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