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Lexikon

Sylvanit? Tonsille?

Everybody knows those terms, as they do know Knüttelbisser or Autosomen, too, don’t they? If yes, then you have good chances in this new edition of the good old dictionary game with about 1500 new definitions.

You play according to the familiar rules, the game master of the round reads out the term and all players write down as plausible an explanation as possible. The game master write down the correct explanation, collects all sheets and shuffles them. Then he reads out – of course in a way that nobody can recognize the owner of a sheet – all definitions. You each player decides on a definition which he believes to be the true one – this decision the game master either remembers or makes a note of. IF you have chosen the correct definition you move your marker one spot forward towards the finish. If you have imitated a dictionary so perfectly that one or more players have believed your – wrong – explanation you may move two steps forward for each player who believed you. Five spots on the track are specially marked; if you end up on one of those spots you can double your score of the next round. When somebody reaches the end of the track – ideally everybody should have been game master as often as all the others – or when everybody has been game master twice, you win if you are furthest advanced on the track.

By the way, when we presented the first edition of this game in 2002, a definition mentioned was Dschiggetai – it is an Asian half-donkey! And no, I did not look through all the cards if this definition is still in the game, I did not want to spoil my fun in all other definitions - because old and well-known in this case is still old and still very good.

Players: 3-6

Age: 12+

Time: 90+

Designer: not named

Artist: Michael Rüttinger

Price: ca. 15 Euros

Publisher: Noris Spiele 2011

Web: www.noris-spiele.de

Genre: Game of definitions

Users: With friends

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

New edition

Variant of an often used mechanism

Good and many definitions

Compares to:

Nobody is perfect and other games on describing terms

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0