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Picassimo

swap and guess correctly

Pictures have disappeared and gallery employees draw copies for the exhibition.

Flaps on the screens are equipped with a country card; term and transformation cards are prepared. You choose one of three difficulty levels – 1. Simple term, suitable for children; 2. challenging terms and 3. Difficult terms on real and fictitious characters, locations, buildings, paintings, etc., that is, with everything that demands knowledge from artist and guesser. You play rounds in which each player draws a picture of a term. Each round comprises three phases: Drawing – Transforming – Guessing.

You draw a term card and put into the flap next to the arrows on the country card. You choose one of the terms indicated by the arrows and draw it, always across all six sections of the whole board. Arrows, letters and numbers are forbidden and the Haba logo must be readable.

When all are done – there are special rules telling when you must stop, in relation to number of players – you reveal a Transformation card and switch the parts in your board that are indicated on the card. Then all show their drawings in turn and all other players guess what they represent. If you give a wrong guess, you go on guessing. If you guess correctly, you earn three points for yourself and and the artist. When nobody guesses correctly, you reverse the transformation and now a correct guess only scores one point. After seven such rounds you win with most points.

Picassimo is a nice version for the genre of draw-and-guess-a-term; if you manage to reverse the transformation in your mind and thus imagine the correct image, you have an advantage.

Players: 3-6

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Carlo A. Rossi

Artist: Christian Fiore

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Haba 2016

Web: www.haba.de

Genre: Drawing game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Nice version of term drawing + guessing

Suitable for families due to difficulty levels

Attractive components

Simple rules

Compares to:

Pictionary, Pictomania and other drawing games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 1

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0