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Wat’n dat?

Two discs, on stick - a bar-bell?

Describe a term, but somewhat differently - not by gestures, not by drawing, but with the help of wooden sticks and wooden discs.

Each of the two players in the active team receives half of the components, that is, five long sticks, three short discs, one big blue disc and one small red disc, players sit next to each other.

The player sitting to the right draws a term card, the number on top of the draw pile determines, which term on the term card is used.

From the moment the term card is touched, any form of communication between team partners is prohibited; both alternate turns to place any piece of their choice to form the term; pieces are always laid down flat and next to each other, never upright and never on top of each other. Relocating of shifting a piece that was placed is also forbidden. The other players should guess the term within 50 seconds; they may call out any number of terms in any order of players or terms; team partners may only use hand gestures to indicate how far or near players are from the correct term.

When the correct term is named, both team members and the correct guesser score one point each. When the term is not named 15 seconds after the team finished placement, the round ends without scoring. The left player in the first team and his left neighbor form the next team. When all players have been team partners equally often, the player with most points wins.

Sounds easy, but is not that easy, because everybody has a different idea of how to form an UFO; however, the game is well-made, very good fun and lovely entertainment. A nice re-edition of the game!

Players: 3-8

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Claude Weber

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: nsv 2017

Web: www.nsv.de

Genre: Forming definitions

Users: For families

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

New edition of Wat’n dat?, ASS

Very good rules

Nice variant in the definition game genre

Compares to:

Wat‘ n dat, ASS; Was’n das?, Ravensburger

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 0