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Draw and find your partner

A cleverly drawn clue and one word per player, but two players have the same word! 115 word cards show one word each in slots I to V. Each player has paper and pen and number of players minus 1 guessing tokens, e.g. tiles A to D in a game of five players. In each of six to ten rounds, depending on the number of players, the current Dealer draws a card and memorizes the word under the slot that was agreed at the start. Then he draws number of players minus 2 additional word cards, shuffles them with the card he drew and then deals all cards to all other players, therefore he himself has no card. All players now have a word, and one of them has the word that the Dealer memorized and therefore is his partner for the round.

Now all players, including the Dealer, draw a clue for their word and place their drawings, the dealer left of the board, all others to the right in the slots, starting at A. Then all players, including the dealer, give a guess on one of the drawings on the right side which they believe to be a clue for the same word as the drawing on the left; to guess you slide your token, letter side down, towards the middle.

When all have guessed, tokens are revealed, the Dealer names his word and his partner indicates his clue. All wrong guesses are covered. If Dealer and Partner both guessed correctly, they score one point per wrong guess. All other players who guessed correctly score 1 point per wrong tip plus 1 point. After a given number of rounds you win with most points.

Difficult, clever and challenging; and as always in those games, you must find the best compromise between to clear a clue and one that is too vague.

Players: 4-8

Age: 10+

Time: 40+

Designer: Wolfgang Warsch

Artist: atelier198, Muti-Folio Art

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Edition Spielwiese / Pegasus 2019

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Word finding, drawing

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Nice version

Good selection of terms

Interesting scoring

Words in slot V are very difficult

Compares to:

Association games with clue drawings

Other editions:

Stronghold Games (en), Edition Spielwiese / Pegasus (en)

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 0