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Blurble

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Two players in a duel for an image card! Those cards show everyday items on backgrounds in varying colors, always image only, without any text. The starting player duels his left neighbor and turns up the top image card from the face-down stack. Both players try to be first to name a word beginning with the same letter as the depicted item, for sun, for instance, you could say soup. Whoever is first to name a valid word, earns the card.

But what is valid?  As usual there are some restrictions - you cannot use names or abbreviations; words must be in German and have at least three letters, und a word cannot be part of the item term, you cannot say rain for rainbow. But there are images that allow for several interpretations - a half-peeled banana, should you say broom for banana or plumber for peel? Is the car a car or an automobile for clean or alphabet? Usually the quicker player wins the duel, if the interpretation is comprehensible, otherwise the other players decide the winner of the duel.

The winner always plays against the next player in seating order, until he loses a duel. The winner of this duel is the new blurbler. When the game-end condition, which is agreed on at the start of the game, is met, you win with most cards.

There are also versions, like Everyone against everyone or Get rid of cards or expert versions with restricting answers to substantives, for instance.

The mechanisms are standard, but nicely varied and fun to play, some expert versions are rather challenging, e.g. naming a word beginning with the letter that is immediately before or after the first letter of the depicted item in the alphabet.  

Players: 2-12

Age: 7+

Time: 30+

Designer: Grant Bernard

Artist: anoka Design

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: HCM Kinzel 2017

Web: www.hcm-kinzel.eu

Genre: Words, association

Users: For families

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nicely varied standard mechanisms

Good images

Good, challenging versions

Compares to:

All word games using first letters

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0