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Double-sided cards feature five words on each sides; words on one side are anagrams of those on the other side. Cards feature words of five to eight letters; words on one cards always have the same number of letters and are printed in different colors. Words can be adjectives, nouns in the singular and verbs in the infinitive.

Players form two teams and face each other across the table; players then choose a color for the words they want to use and then the first card is drawn and placed in its holder on the table, between teams, each team is only allowed to see one side of the card.

Now each team tries to quickly figure out the anagram for the word in the chosen color on the card, you can give any number of guesses. For instance, if orange was chosen and the team sees "Opéra" it should quickly guess at and call out Apéro, in analogy the other team sees Apéro and should guess Opéra. When after a reasonable amount of time no correct was given, both teams give a clue to the other team, which can be either the first letter or a definition for the word. The first team to name the correct word of the chosen color on the other side, wins the card. The first team with seven cards wins the round, the team to win two rounds wins the game. If the word is named simultaneously by both teams, the card is a bonus for the winner of the next card.

Vocabulary, creativity - if you want to practice French by playing you should take a good look at this game; the idea itself is original and yet another example for the creative and attractive kind of games that Cocktail Games provides for the genre of word games.

Players: 2-6

Age: 12+

Time: 20+

Designer: Pascal Thoniel

Artist: Studio Tomso

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Cocktail Games 2013

Web: www.cocktailgames.com

Genre: Words

Users: With friends

Version: fr

Rules: en fr

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Interesting, creative mechanism

Good practice for French vocabulary

Good knowledge of French is necessary

Compares to:

First game of this kind, basically all games on words

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0