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ACTIVITY CODEWORD

GUESS WORDS TO ASK FOR LETTERS

New edition for one of the most interesting variants of the classic communicative game: Activity Codeword. In this version without a board you must guess a code word.

Each team secretly writes down a word of 8 letters in its basic grammatical form, it may contain any number of any letter of the alphabet with the exception of q, x and y. Words with ä, ö, ü, or ß can be chosen, those letters are written as ae, oe, ue and ss. The symbol die shows markings for "Drawing", "Describing" and "Pantomime". The active player of a team roll the die, draws a card and chooses one of the two terms on the card corresponding to the presentation method, As usual the active player then try to make his team guess the term within the run-time of the timer.

The usual rules for Activity apply: Drawing without letters, numbers or talking, Describing without using variations of the term, and Pantomime without talking or including items in the room.

For terms marked with a * you play an open round, choose a partner from an opposing team, and all players can guess, as they also do for terms that are printed in bold on your card. When the term is guessed correctly, the team asks the next team on the right, if the first letter of the guessed term is in the code word, and how often. If the first letter was used already, you can use the second one, etc. Before the start of a regular turn a team can give a guess and wins if the word is correct.

A very good variant with nicely chosen terms; if you choose cleverly you can have your guess at letters in the code word confirmed. Still one of the best, if not THE best communication game.

Players: 4-16

Age: 12+

Time: variable

Designer: Catty / Führer

Artist: Arthur Wagner

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: Piatnik 2013

Web: www.piatnik.com

Genre: Creative communication

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

New edition

Changed components

Well-chosen terms

Variable playing time

Compares to:

All editions of Activity

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 3