PLAYED FOR YOU

Are you joking?

Laugh and learn!

To learn English is a laughing matter! At least, that’s what this game for improving your English is telling us und proves it with a selection of jokes, tongue twisters, rhymes and quotations in English, on 200 double-sided cards. 252 double-sided tiles show words, their translation and phonetic transcription. Those words are marked in red when occurring on a text card. You choose the number of cards you want to play and each player draws ten word tiles from the bag.

One player reads the text and then lays the card out for all to see - all others check if the hold tiles with words from that text and - if they have some - put them next to the text card. There is a time limit of about 10 seconds, the reader slowly counts down from 10 to 0. For each correctly laid-out tile you can draw a new one and keep the ones you placed. The reader cannot place tiles, he only checks all tiles and takes the text card.

Instead of drawing a tile you can swap a tile with another player, even if the values of the tiles are different.

If you manage not to laugh till the end of the countdown, you may draw an extra tile. If he manages to make everybody laugh, the reader takes a tile. Whoever has the highest score from his tiles when the agreed number of cards has been played, wins the game. You score the side of the tiles with the higher value! In a variant you roll a die to determine how the text is presented and how to find words.

A witty and attractive way to enhance and improve your knowledge of English, elementary English is essential, but in case of different levels of knowledge you can give more time to the less practiced players.

Players: 3-8

Age: 12+

Time: 20+

Designer: Gerhard Grubbe

Artist: Björn Hölle, Martina Dobrindt

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Grubbe Media 2013

Web: www.grubbemedia.de

Genre: Language training game

Users: For families

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Basic knowledge of English is essential

Very good for practicing the language

Nice selection of texts

Compares to:

Other games to learn English

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0