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Smart Guy

a Variant of Stadt-Land-Fluss

Smart Guy offers a version of the standard, well-known mechanism in Stadt-Land-Fluss, in which the basic mechanism is the same, with changes in details.

The game features 54 cards showing a category term on the front – for instance Hobbies, Reptiles or Fungi – and a letter on the back, in those cases A, I and U.

In Variant I - FINDE EINEN BEGRIFF – the cards are stacked letter-side up; the top card is turned over and provides the category. Whoever is fastest to name a word for the category, beginning with the letter showing on the top card of the stack, wins the card and turns over the next one. When only one card remains, you win with most cards. In Variant II – BIS EINER NIX MEHR WEISS! – you stack 21 random cards letter-side up. Again you reveal a card for the topic and find one suitable word in turn. If nobody in the round did repeat a word, the next card is turned up. If you answered with an unsuitable term or one that was already named, you take all cards played so far; this time you win with fewest cards when only one is left in the stack. In Variant III – SO VIEL WIE MÖGLICH -  you reveal four terms and all write down words suitable for those terms and beginning with the letter on the top card; you score 3 points for letters you wrote down alone, and 1 points for words you have in common with other players. If you did not not find a word for a topic, you score a penalty of -2 points. When only two cards are left, you win with most points.

Smart Guy is a well-made version using cute and unusual categories; like all those games, this one, too, works best with a homogenous group of players.

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Meelis Looveer

Artist: Kreativbunker

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: moses. Verlag 2015

Web: www.moses-verlag.de

Genre: Association, vocabulary

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: ja

Comments:

Standard mechanism, nicely varied

Works best with homogenous groups

Good vocabulary training

Nice for holidays and travels

Compares to:

Stadt-Land-Fluß and all its versions

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0