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Divinare

Coffee Dregs or Crystal ball?

Divinare means predicting - and this is what you are meant to do in this card game with the number of cards played using four Prediction markers. There are four kinds of cards in the game in varying numbers: 6x Chiromancy (reading of hands), 8x Crystallomancy (reading crystal balls), 10x Tasseomancy (reading coffee dregs) and 12 x Astromancy (reading the stars) cards. Cards are shuffled and 24 are dealt to players and played one by one in turn.

You add a card next to board for the card variety, stacked, so that you can check all the time how many cards have been played. Then you must move your prediction marker on this board, either to an empty spot or back to the middle; you can never make the same prediction as another player.

At the start and after two and then four cards have been played you hand a certain number of cards to your neighbor and therefore you know a certain number of cards and can use this also to get rid of unwanted cards. And some cases, guessing is still the only option as you must bet and can only hope that you will have another turn and the desired spot to bet will then be free. When all cards have been played you score for correct predictions and for prediction on numbers adjacent from the correct number to the left and right.

Divinare is one of those games for which you cannot predict what fun it is to play them, but it is fun! You ponder and count and hope that your neighbor does not play coffee because then you would have miscounted! Bluffing and guessing and counting in a fun mixture! Are all coffee cups in play? Did I hand one on? Sigh! Guess! Count!

Players: 2-4

Age: 13+

Time: 45+

Designer: Brett J. Gilbert

Art: Benjamin Carré

Price: ca. 18 Euro

Publisher: Asmodee 2012

Web: www.de.asmodee.com

Genre: Deduction game

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very attractive components

Rising information levels due to handing on of cards

High replay value

Compares to:

Members Only and other bluff/betting games with changing amounts of information

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0