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Yes & No

Envelope and iPhone

A game for larger group of players, in two teams, featuring words and definitions. At first glance the game offers a well-known standard mechanism, you must describe something to the members of your team, avoiding given taboo words, the team must guess the item or term.  A new feature introduced in Yes & No is that you also have a list of compulsory words that you must use. And this results in a completely different game. 110 double-sided cards feature 220 terms with a list of 5 forbidden and five compulsory words for each term, in your turn you draw the bottom card. Furthermore, the active player must try to use the compulsory words as early as possible, because team members can give guesses anytime, but the word only scores if it is guessed correctly and all compulsory words already have been used. A member of the opposite time supervises the correct description. Of course, the team of the active player should wait a bit before guessing to avoid guessing correctly too early. To integrate Sun, Bright and Awake into a description of Evening is possible, to use Candles, Safe and Curiosity for an Actor is a bit more difficult, but Trigger Line and Envelope for iPhone is getting really hard. Copy, Applause Steam, Page and Karate for a Squid, within a minute, poses a nearly impossible task!

Yes & No is an attractive and felicitous variation of a well-known principle, especially good for large and changing groups. The compulsory words more or less eliminate the chance for personal hints among a team, as you cannot just list the words, but must use them in proper sentences.

Spieler         : 4-12

Alter            : ages 14+

Dauer           : ca. 45 min

Autor           : Michael Rüttinger

Grafik          : Michael Rüttinger

Titel            : ident

Preis            : ca. 20 Euro

Verlag          : Noris Spiele 2011

www.noris-spiele.de

Genre                    : A game of words and definitions

Zielgruppe             : With friends

Version                           : de

Rules                              : de

In-game use of language   : yes

Kommentar:

Standard basic mechanism

First game to use compulsury words

Good for changing groups of players

Vergleichbar:

Tabu and other games on definitions

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