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BiZzarie

A monster with depression?

In the Northern Woods there dwell mysterious monsters! The king wants to know more about them and sends his minions – the players – to explore the monsters. After 6 or 8 rounds you should have accumulated as many points as possible from your explorations to win. At the start there are 3 empty sheets of paper. You choose a pair of eyes and a mouth from stock as basis for a face, place them on the sheet and draw any monster of your choice around it and give it a name. Then the story on the first card is read out, players listen to this in the role of their monster – in the first round this is the one you drew, in the others one that you did not yet embody - and react to the story. The reaction is written into a speech bubble next to the monster. Then a question card is drawn and a question asked. Now you note down three monsters you think fit the question best. Then all players score for correlations of this list with other players; monsters that you name alone score negative for you. The rules list versions for experienced players with a central question or bids, e.g. that your own monster will not be named, in some of the versions you add to your drawings.

Sounds much more complicated than it is and it is lots of fun to first make up a comment for the monster on the kind of music it likes and then choose three monsters which might often suffer from hallucinations. If you like creative nonsense and verbal banter you will have fun with Bizzarie. All the same I think it is rather a game for adolescents or you adults then for children of the age stated in the rules.

Spieler         : 2-8

Alter            : ages 7 and up

Dauer           : ca. 45 min

Autor           : Jírí Mikoláš

Grafik          : Aneta Kýrová

Titel            : ident

Preis            : ca. 15 Euro

Verlag          : Jira’s Games

www.jirasgames.com

Genre                    : Creative and communication game

Zielgruppe             : With friends

Sprache        : de fr en

Regeln         : de fr en

Text im Spiel : yes

Kommentar:

Basically also usable as a family game

Best for groups of playes of similar age

Trains creativity and phrasing comments

Very witty, funny and challenging

Vergleichbar:

game of this particular kind, basically all creativity games

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