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Memo-Palace

Turtle in the nursery

Once again, lots of various animals have gone into hiding, this time in the Memo Palace, and you will only be able to find them if you manage to remember their hiding places well.

The Memo Palace is laid out with 16 palace parts in any arrangement, so that it is different in each game; you need not use all tiles but should at least lay out ten palace tiles. Players then decide together on the number of animal pairs that they want to use and take that number from the supply of 25 pairs; then the pairs are sorted into a yellow and a blue stack, according to their back sides.

The active player draws any yellow tile, looks at it and then puts it face-down on a palace tile. Then he invents a little story to explain why, for instance, the penguin is standing on the hall staircase. When all yellow tiles have been placed, you shuffle the blue tiles face-down and then, again in turn, players turn up one of the blue tiles. Can you remember the story about the turtle and therefore know in which room it is hiding? If you manage to find a pair, you keep both tiles. But when the blue and yellow tile do not correspond, you put both tiles back. When all pairs have been found, you win with most pairs.

In a cooperative memo variant, you place three memo monsters face down into the palace. Then you play as usual, but all can talk and give advice on the monster location to avoid them, or the location of the wanted animal, because if you turn up a monster, the game is lost for all!

Memo Palace is a very pretty, cute and well-working memo version which is also good practice for creativity and vocabulary.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 25+

Designer: Don Ullman

Artist: Matthew Kaufenberg Studios, xl-graphics

Price: ca. 23 Euro

Publisher: Piatnik 2017

Web: www.piatnik.com

Genre: Memory, narration

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: cz de fr hu it sk

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice combination of mechanisms

Very nice design

Good practice for memory and creativity

Variable game set-up

Compares to:

All narrative memo games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 2

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0