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Bühne frei!

Caravan? Dad or cat? #1 or #4?

Ad lib charade at its best; players are actors and audience; you play several scenes until one player has accumulated 13 or more points. Four players are actors; all others – if present – are audience. The actors for the first scene draw a rank card at random and then a topic. For the first games you can discard some of the rank cards so that each rank is present only once. Each player decides by himself who or what he could embody in the topic. If you drew rank #4 for the caravan you could be a cat or a carpet. The actors have 45 seconds and the audience tries to guess what is enacted and who has which rank. Then the audience together decides on the topic and each person in the audience scores 1 point if the guess was correct. This is left out with only four players in all. Then one actor after the other is selected; all players, other actors and audience, point as many fingers at him as they believe to be his rank in the scene. If you guess the rank correctly you score 2 points, the actor scores 2 points if his rank was guessed correctly at least once. When all players guess correctly the actor scores an extra point. For the next scene all players in the audience become actors, if necessary, actors are chosen randomly from the previous actors to make up the number of four actors.

In this new edition of Freeze the ingenious basic idea has been streamlined and is now easier to implement, what remains is the challenge, the fun and the astonishment about hidden talents in impersonating a floor lamp! The ideal game for a party, New Year’s eve or whenever you want to have lots of fun!

Players: 4-8

Age: 12+

Time: variable

Designer: Hans-Peter Stoll, Andrea Meyer

Artist: N. Nowatzyk, H. Fetz. Die Kommunikatur, P. Becker

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: Ravensburger 2012

Web: www.ravensburger.de

Genre: Charade game

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Revised new edition of Freeze

Basically simple rules

Good choice of topics

Topic cards in four languages, rules in German

Compares to:

Freeze, first game with this mechanism

Other editions:

Freeze, Bewitched Spiele

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 3