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Zündstoff

The game of explosive Questions

As the name tells us, there are explosives in the game, meaning that there are indiscreet questions in the categories of Daily life, Fiction, Sex, Culture, Macabre, Philosophy and Progress, all posed with a twinkle in the eye. The same twinkle is also present in the rules - Game version 1 simple tells you “Use the game as you like, invent your own rules, have fun with it” and then takes pity on us and recommends turning to Version 2 of the game.

Version2 uses the category die, all players with the exception of the one asking the questions answer the question and then all players choose the answer they like best - in case of a tie the person who posed the question has two votes - whoever collects most votes wins the round and scores a point. You can also have all players judge the answer of one player or you can agree at the start of the game that only truthful answers are allowed and so on and so on and so on. Another interesting suggestion for the use of the questions is to use the questions without answering them as basis of an animated and open discussion, maybe on “What is innocence?” or „When can one talk about a fulfilled life?“

As in all those questions games featuring questions that delve rather deeply into the private life or the dark side of any person, the fun of the game solely depends on the players - ready repartees are necessary, for instance for an answer to the question „Which film character would you like to be?“ and you must take care never to take a question personally; then Zündstoff can result in a celebratory fireworks which burns nobody’s fingers, not even in the „Love“ edition.

Players: 2+

Age: 16+

Time: 30+

Designer: Franz LeJeune

Art: Martin Glück

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: moses.Verlag 2011

Web: www.moses-verlag.de

Genre: Communication game

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de fr

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Standard mechanisms

Rather private or embarrassing questions

Available also as “Zündstoff Liebe”

Compares to:

Question/answer games for adults

Other editions:

Zündstoff Liebe

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 1

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0