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Abra Palabra

Not another word!

The ingredients are familiar - cards with words, a sand-timer - you quickly have an inkling of the game mechanisms: Two teams alternate in guessing and explaining; you want to guess most terms while using the fewest words to explain the terms and thus scoring most points.

The game features double-sided cards with five terms on each side - for instance, Mole, Charlotte Roche, Eskimo, Rathaus and Vatikan - and six handicap cards with restrictions for explanations, there are "no colors", "no adjectives" or "no body parts", "no words with capital letters" and "no professions", but also "no handicap at all".

When you have drawn your handicap you name the number of words that you want to use to explain the terms and then you draw a term card, the sand timer is turned over. Now you explain the terms on one side of the card in any order, while adhering to the handicap conditions and those rules: no rhymes, no translations of terms, no parts of the term, no gestures and only one try to explain a term. Your team members have any number of guesses to find the correct term. A member of the opposing teams looks at your card, too, and checks for mistakes. When the time has run out or when you managed to explain all five terms, you score points for correctly guessed terms in relation to the number of words used for the explanation, 5 to 1 points per term for using 1 to 5 words.

Very simple and not easy, if you are ambitious, you can achieve a high score with one word per term, but also fail miserably. Cute, witty and well-made, a tidbit for creative word acrobats.

Players: 4-12

Age: 12+

Time: 30+

Designer: Daan Kreek

Artist: Sabine Kondirolli

Price: ca. 14 Euro

Publisher: Huch! & friends 2014

Web: www.huchandfriends.de

Genre: Words, explanation, guessing

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Quickly explained, quickly played

Very good exercise for your vocabulary and synonyms

Think simple to succeed!

Compares to:

Taboo and other word guessing/explanation games

Other editions:

Currently none

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