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Macroscope

Guessing Pictures

Picture cards are stacked in the Macroscope, all its windows are covered with tokens; each player receives two yellow crystals. The active player rolls the dice and removes corresponding tokens, if he wants to. After each token, he can give a guess. If the active player does not want to guess, the other players can do so; if more than one other player wants to guess, the active player decides who can guess. Everybody can look into the open windows at any point in the game. When nobody wants to guess, you hand on the dice and take two crystals.

If you want to guess, you make ready as many crystals as there are tokens on the Macroscope and give your guess. If someone else has another opinion, he can give a guess, too; if more than one player wants to guess now, the active player decides who goes first. Each player can give only one guess and must give a different guess than all other players before him. When all have guessed, the windows are randomly covered with tokens again and the picture is pulled out. Whoever guessed correctly, gets the prepared number of crystals. All who guessed wrongly, must discard the same number of crystals or all that they have, if they do not have enough.

When all windows are open and nobody guessed, all players exchange their covers for crystals, replace all tokens and the top picture is removed.

After eleven rounds, you win with most points from your crystals. In a variant, players who want to guess pay two crystals to the active player.

Macroscope is remarkable for its classy design and the attractive, not always simple images, but the penalty for giving a wrong guess is steep!

Players: 2-6

Age: 6+

Time: 30+

Designer: Martin Nedergaard Andersen

Artist: Oksana Dmitrienko, Maria Kaplieva, Alena Naumova, Irina Pechenkina

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Game Factory 2016

Web: www.gamefactory-spiele.com

Genre: Guessing images

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en jp

In-game text: no

Comments:

Classy design

Consider well before guessing

German rules are different from the English ones

Compares to:

Klappe auf, Ravensburger

Other editions:

Hobby Japan (jp), Lifestyle (ru)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0