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Schattenmeister

identify shadows to score

In this game of shadows and silhouettes the shadow silhouettes of individual items are superimposed on each other and you need to be Master of Shadows to unscramble the mix – does the round bit come from the apple or the turtle?

Ten image cards – marked by a letter on the back – show nine images plus a color dot. Shadow cards show a mix of silhouettes and markings for an image card in white, blue or yellow, which are the case colors of the track. Players have a screen and behind it a color card for marking found images. Player markers start at the first case. On the shadow card of the round you choose the marking according to the marker in the lead on the track – white for the first card – and turn over the corresponding image card to the image side. Now all players try simultaneously to identify as many images in the mix as are marked by the number given below the current color mark. If you find an image you mark it behind your screen by placing a betting piece on the corresponding color dot on your car. If you found all images you take the most valuable Shadow Stone still available. You can never place more betting pieces than stated by the number marking the number of images. When all Shadow Stones have been taken, you score one point for each correctly marked image plus the value of your Shadow Stone if you correctly identified all images.

When someone arrives at the blue finish case on the track, you win at the end of the round if you are in the lead.

This is a very unusual game idea in a very clever implementation,  albeit also in a very challenging interpretation, as the items are depicted in unusual guises.

Players: 3-6

Age: 8+

Time: 40+

Designer: Wolfgang Warsch

Artist: Marek Bláha

Price: ca. 23 Euro

Publisher: Piatnik 2016

Web: www.piatnik.com

Genre: Spotting guessing

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Simple basic mechanism

Silhouettes hard to identify despite image templates

Clever, unusual game idea

Compares to:

First game of its kind

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 1

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 0