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Knätsel

Form, ask, guess!

Knätsel are puzzles made from dough. Each player has marker, guessing disc, two clue discs and dough of one color. With this dough you form two Knätsel - representations of items or creatures - and place them with a clue disc on a Knätsel spot on the board. Then you write down the solution and put the sheet underneath the board, numbers 1-5 are visible. The active player chooses a Knätsel and moves its clue chip by one position. On a white clue spot you may ask two questions, valid answers are Yes, No, Maybe and Not Unequivocal. On a grey spot you can demand one of the first five letters of the term, the letter is noted in the position on the sheet. If you want to guess, you put your guessing disc into the funnel. If your guess was correct you advance your marker by the number of green arrows at your position; if it was wrong you move backwards for the number of red arrows at your position. The solution must correspond absolutely to the word written on the sheet, no synonyms possible. If several players simultaneously use their guessing disc, the order in which they come out of the funnel decides the order of guesses given. The Knätsel creator moves forward in case of a correct guess. After seven clues, unsolved Knätsel go off the board. If you are first at the finish or in first position when all Knätsel are solved, you win. A team version is included.

Under the name of Barbarossa this game was 1988 paving the way for the genre of creative communication games and is today still as fresh and interesting as it was then; the heart of the game is the forming of items - easy enough to be guessed but no too easy for a good score.

Players: 3-6

Age: 10+

Time: 45+

Designer: Klaus Teuber

Artist: Fiore GmbH

Price: ca. 33 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2015

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Creative, communication, form, guess

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Revised edition of Barbarossa

Different design

Suggestions for terms and questions on both sides of the individual player boards

Compares to:

All editions of Barbarossa, other games with playdough representation of items

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): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 1