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Stadt Land Fluss extreme

liquid and sweet = liqueur

Relaunch for a classic game in the range of games on finding words – in this edition of the familiar “Stadt, Land, Fluss” you do not look for words beginning with a certain letter, but write down words that fit two different categories at the same time.

The game features 53 double-sided category cards, for instance „is smooth“ or „in every school“. Six such cards are laid out, three in a row and three in a column; this results, with those cards at the head of rows and columns, in a grid of 3x3 cases, which is also printed on your sheet. Two bonus cards of values 1 and 2 are laid out ready. The timer is turned over and all write suitable words into the nine cases. Each word sits in the crossing of two categories and needs to fit both of those categories, for instance “ruler” for “smooth” and “in every school”. Each word can be used only once in a round. Should there be no suitable word for a combination of categories you simply leave the case empty. If you are done before the timer runs out, you take one of two bonus cards. When the timer stops, empty cases are worth 0 points, words shared by players 1 point, and words you wrote down alone score 2 points. And you add the points from a bonus card, if any. After a pre-agreed number of such rounds you win with most points.

Well-known and nicely adapted; categories are well chosen and the run-time of the timer is okay. The age limit denotes a family game, which it is, as regards to difficulty and challenge; but with younger children some vocabulary problems might occur. But otherwise the verdict is fun, quick and old, but very nicely and well modernized!

Players: 2-10

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Peer Sylvester

Artist: Kinetic

Price: ca. 7 Euro

Publisher: Schmidt Spiele 2016

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: Word finding

Users: For families

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: ja

Comments:

Nicely adapted classic

Differences in vocabulary can be solved in team play

Categories are well-chosen

Compares to:

All word-finding games using categories

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 2

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0