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Verkaufshit

Wacht + Raum ergibt ?

A memo game, but, as is usual in games at Metermorphosen, a somewhat different memo game. 36 pairs, marked also by corresponding background colors, show words that can be combined to a word, that has little to nothing to do with the two original words. Finding Delikat and Essen you might arrive at Delikatessen, but for Weste and Uropa you need a bit of original thinking to arrive at the combined word Westeuropa.

Hopefully, all remain calm, when Mode and Rat are combined into the adjective of moderat - most certainly, you need a good command of German vocabulary for that game..

The mechanism of the game is the standard mechanism for memory games: As usual, you turn up two tiles - when the two words can be combined to form a reasonable word, you keep the pair of tiles and win, at the end, with most pairs.

In this kind of game, you need obviously vocabular, intuition, a bit of creativity and some humor for combinations like Verkauf and Shit into Verkaufshit .

The minimum age of 6, as given on the box, seems to me to come from the wish to make the game attractive and a sales hit, but I believe that six year olds do not yet have enough vocabulary at their command for this game - but try it, the corresponding colors in pairs will be a big help for that age group.

Verkaufshit is not a game for everybody, but if you like creating words, finding absurd combinations and digging around in your German vocabulary, then you will definitely have a lot of fun. After a few games, you remember the combos and have a standard memo game.

Oh, by the way, the answer to the question in the title line: Wacht + Raum combines to Wachtraum.

Players: 2+

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Ralph Burkhardt

Artist: Ralph Burkhardt

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Metermorphosen 2019

Web: www.metermorphosen.de

Genre:  Memo, finding words

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Standard mechanism

Highly inventive, unusual idea

Very good selection of words and terms

Compares to:

Gemischtes Doppel

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0