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Pixelstücke

Painting with squares

A drawing game offering equal opportunities for talented and untalented artists. Aim of the game is to use fewer pixels that your opponents to represent a term and to guess the terms of other players. You start with 20 black pixels, that is, small square tiles, one red pixel and a red arrow. In relation to the number of players colored screens are handed out, so that there always at least two players with the same color of a screen, that is, a playing board. Each color group draws one card and reads the first term secretly and then places pixels to represent the term. The arrow can be placed anywhere to emphasize a detail, each pixel must be placed exactly within the grid. When you are done, you put down your screen face-down, the others have 30 seconds, marked by the timer, to complete their picture. Then you show your creation and hope that others guess what it represents. Members of one group always show their creations in ascending order of the number of pixels used. If members of a group used the same number of pixels, their creations are displayed at the same time. In relation to specified procedures you can give a hint and victory cubes are allocated to creator and guessers.

After a return game with the second term on the card you hand on screens to your left neighbors for the next round.

Pixelstücke offers an unusual and very attractive game, which is fun and needs a bit of tactic, too - do I use few pixels and can show my creation earlier to win cubes before my rival gets to show his? Or should I use one or two more to make sure that it is guessed, but maybe too late?

Players: 4-9

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: David Franck, Laurent Escoffier

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 27 Euro

Publisher: GameWorks 2013

Web: www.gameworks.ch

Genre: Creative placement game

Users: For families

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de fr jp

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Fantastic party game

Quite some tactic besides creativity

No talent necessary, only imagination

Compares to:

Placement games, first game in this combination of mechanisms

Other editions:

Hobby Japan

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): 0

Action (dark green): 0