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Magic Jinn

Tier-Edition

Interactive quiz fun with voice recognition, offered by a little blue something that looks like an animal straight out of a Science Fiction Film, which seems to be able to read minds.

In this Animal Edition Magic Jinn has been programmed with knowledge of more than 350 animals. You think of an animal and switch on Magic Jinn by pressing his nose. Now Magic Jinn begins to ask questions and tries to guess the animal that you thought of, based on your answers - you on the other hand try to outwit Magic Jinn, who knows more than 350 animals, but has only five goes at guessing correctly. The rules, given in speech bubbles on the outside of the box, ask you to speak loudly, clearly and in High German so that Magic Jinn understands the questions well. You can answer with yes or no, the questions are formulated simply, easily understandable and posed according to the target age of players, for instance "is the animal bigger than a motorbike?"

Magic Jinn reacts to each answer with a sound for a signal and says "understood/verstehe" or "okay", but can also process substitute answers like "That depends/Das kommt darauf an" or "say that again/Sag's nochmal". You can also say "back/zurück" to have Magic Jinn go back to the previous question if you answered wrongly or do not know the answer. For each additional questions Magic Jinn process all answers received so far.

Magic Jinn is fun, I have watched adults trying to give as ambiguous answers as possible to outwit the blue animal. The little cat is an ideal companion on travels or in waiting rooms and also a well-working training for listening and answering in relation to questions.

Players: 1

Age: 6+

Time: 10+

Designer: not named

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Hasbro 2013

Web: www.hasbro.de

Genre: Question/answer

Users: For children

Special: 1 player

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Very nice quiz variant

Can guess uncommon animals, too

Comments get repetitive with intense use

Batteries necessary

Compares to:

First game of this kind

Other editions:

Magic Jinn und Magic Jinn Food, Hasbro USA

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 2

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0