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Emojito!

A gleeful banana?

Using facial expressions and noises, you try to express emotions stated on cards; either cooperatively versus the game, competitive or in teams against other teams.

In the version of “all against the game” you place one marker for the team and one for the game at the start. As active player, you draw a card and mime the emotion as determined by the player marker location. Then you draw six cards, shuffle in your card, display all cards on the board and mark your card on the wheel. The other players also set a number on their wheel; then the team marker moves for each correct guess, the game’s marker for each incorrect one.

In the competitive version, you play on your own; the active player moves two steps per correct answer, but no more than six, correct guessers move three.

The team variant follows the same scheme; the active player of each team draws a card, the partner guesses; all cards are collected, amended to seven, f necessary, and displayed; guessers mark a card, the actors announce their emotion; correct guesses score two steps. In each version, you receive a card when your marker crosses the start/finish line on the board; whoever is first to own the required number of cards, wins.

Pantomime as usual, were there not emotions on the cards which are depicted in a very quirky and lovely way; the gleeful banana is relatively easy to read, but the teeth-flashing ball of wool with needles inserted? Probably fear! But what emotion for the rabbit pulled from the hat and how do I get it across? A wonderful challenge for actors and guessers, especially when your marker location allows you only noises. Super fun for all!

Players: 2-14

Age: 7+

Time: 30+

Designer: Urtis Sulinskas

Artist: Tony Tzanoukakis, Sabine Kondirolli

Price: ca. 24 Euro

Publisher: Huch! 2017

Web: www.hutter-trade.com

Genre: Miming emotions

Users: For families

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr nl + gr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Enchanting drawings

Emotions not always clear

Huge fun to play

Compares to:

Grimassimix and games using facial expressions

Other editions:

Desyllas (gr, de, en, fr)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 4

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 1