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Gemischtes Doppel 3

Aeroplane and plain error

The memory game that is different from other memo games is given a third edition – again the elegant box is filled 72 tiles resulting in 36 pairs, you should simply play a memo game with the, but a somewhat different memo game. The 72 tiles show a picture and a word, but the word is not simply an explanation but part of what you must guess at, because the word on the other tile of the pair is different and the picture, too. In the words syllables might be switches or letters changed, and it is awful hard to come up with English equivalents; for instance, there is a picture of a girl in water wings for „seafaring“ and the other shows a picture of tea tins and could be „tea-fearing“. The pairs are fun to look at and I admire the people who come up with those pairs. The rules suggest leaving out some pairs that are ambiguous or risky in a family game, you can also amuse yourself alone in finding the pictures that go together, and if you want to have a really challenging game you can combine the different editions of the game into one.

Gemischtes Doppel in its 3^rd edition, is still something only meant for absolute fans of such plays on word, you must love switched syllables, letters and meanings. You cannot play the game quickly, you should take some time out for it; if you look at words and pictures beforehand, it might turn into a normal memory, but then you have spoilt the fun for the first game. Unfortunately, the game is completely language-dependant and needs mother-tongue command of the German language to play, because some of the words are a bit hard even for German native speakers.

Players: 1+

Age: 12+

Time: variable

Designer: Christian Gottwalt

Artist: Team

Price: ca. 17 Euros

Publisher: Metermorphosen 2011

Web: www.metermorphosen.de

Genre: Memory game on words

Users: With friends

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Based on a newspaper column

Only for absolute language and word-artists

100% Language-dependent

Compares to:

All Memo games with two different images in a pair; in combination with spoonerism still the first game of its kind

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0