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Imagine

Transparent Guessing fun!

To present a drawing to make people guess a term, is a standard concept for the genre of explanation and guessing games; Imagine uses this mechanism in a new and clever way:

Transparent cards show pictograms in various colors; some are very precise, e.g. an umbrella, others abstract, e.g. a rectangle; the cards are laid out in a circle, forming a playing area within.

The active player takes a card from the stack of Term cards; his right neighbor names a number between 1 and 8 and thus determines the term that the active player must use; the active player names only the category for the term - Thing, Location, Event, Film, Nature & Animals, Song, Famous Person, etc., etc. If you as active player do not know the indicated term, you may choose the term with a number higher or lower by one.

Then you choose any number of transparent cards, place them into the playing area, you can move them, align them, superimpose them on each other, completely or partially to cause other players to guess the term. You can also cover part of a card with your fingers, but cannot talk or make noises or use signs or name or form letters or numbers.

When the term is guessed correctly, guesser and active player score one point each, regardless of how easy or difficult the term was to form and guess. When all have been active twice, you win with the highest score.

AN elegant game and a difficile challenge for imagination and creativity, despite the seeming limitation by distinct images you can make very varied use of them, the rectangular speech bubble can double as a hot water bottle, if necessary. A good vocabulary of synonyms is also useful.

Players: 3-8

Age: 12+

Time: 30+

Designer: Shingo Fujita, Motoyuki Ohki, Hiromi Oikawa

Artist: Shintaro Ono

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: HUCH! & friends 2016

Web: www.hutter-trade.com

Genre: Images used for term explanation

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: cn de en fr jp pl pt

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Classy components

Symbols easily visible when stacked

Simple basic mechanism

Good mix of words

No difficulty levels

Compares to:

Concept and other explanation games using images

Other editions:

Broadway Toys (cn), Gamewright (en), Cocktail Games (fr), Pikuteru (jp), Rebel (pl), Galapagos Jogos (pt)

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): 2

Action (dark green): 2