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Just One

one word, one guess

All players versus the game, you want to guess as many secrets words as possible. You stack 13 random cards for a game, and you have a board and pen. The active player draws a card, puts it out unseen for the other players to see on his board and then names a number between 1 and 5 to determine the word he must guess from the card.

The other players now secretly write down a clue for this word on their boards, they cannot not confer among each other and the clue can only be one word - a number, name, abbreviation, sound presentation or special characters are deemed to be a word. Spelling versions and a translation into another language are forbidden as are words with the same word stem or invented words and also words of similar sound, but different meaning - e.g. beat and bead.

When all have written their clue, the active player closes his eyes; all others compare clues; identical or invalid clues are removed; variants of the same word, e.g. prince and princess, are invalid, too.

Then the active player has exactly one guess based on the remaining clues. If he succeeds, the card remains on the table openly; if not, the card is taken out of play together with one of the remaining still unused cards. When all 13 cards have been used, players check their cooperative joint achievement in the chart.

Nice, entertaining and not too easy - how creative can a clue be to be not invalid and yet be clear enough to serve as a real clue - does SMS make you think of mobile phones or a message?

Players: 3-7

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Ludovic Roudy, Bruno Sautter

Artist: Eric Azagury, Florin Poullet

Price: ca. 28 Euro

Publisher: Repos Production 2018

Web: www.asmodee.de

Genre: Cooperation, guess words

Users: For families

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: cn de en es fr it nl pl

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Cute game idea

Needs weighing of creativity versus comprehensibility

Plays quickly

Good party game

Compares to:

First game with this mechanisms combination

Other editions:

Repos (cn, en, es, fr, it, nl), Rebel (pl)

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0