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Thématik

Something stinging, with K or R

Again a small square tin, also holding a folder on Cocktail Games, with a subtitle of „Small games for all“, and Thématik is a game for all, and as so often in France a game for all is a game on words and letters, this time with a familiar basic mechanism: you must win mist rounds by finding words on a given topic which start with a certain letter. 20 cards for points are laid out in a grid of 4 x 5 cards, all identical numbers in one column, topic and letter cards are shuffled separately.

A game comprises five rounds; in each round you draw five letters and add them from top to bottom next to the number rows. This results in a grid of 5x5 cards. Then one of the players draws and reads it out. From now on all play simultaneously and search for words fitting the topic and starting with one of the five letters in the grid. If you find a word, you take the highest point card in the row next to the letter, beginning with the one of value four. If two people name the same word, the quicker one scores. All words must be said clearly and loudly, so you must pay close attention and if necessary protest, a word cannot be scored when the majority of players reject the word. The round ends when – depending on the number of players – either one or two rows of point cards are empty. If you have most points you win the rounds, after five rounds you win the game with most points.

Thématik is yet another good game and a good example for transforming standard mechanisms into good games; the challenge in Thématik is fast thinking and at the same time paying attention to the words that are named by other players. Good, fast and good, fast fun!

Players: 2-10

Age: 8+

Time: 10+

Designer: Carlo Emmanuelle Lanzavecchia

Art: Stéphane Gantiez

Price: ca. 11 Euro

Publisher: Cocktail Games 2013

Web: www.cocktailgames.com

Genre: Word and association

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: fr

Rules: fr

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Can be played in other languages

Simple rules

Fast play

You need to find correct words and pay attention on repetitions

Compares to:

All association games on words on topics and letters

Other editions:

From Post Scriptum, Happy Baobab, Oliphante

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0