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Brautkraut

Blaukleid turns Krautblau

As proven by this game, you can even turn a tongue twister into a game. 66 cards show two out of four images that are mentioned in the German tongue-twister „Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut und Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid“, roughly "Red Cabbage stays Red Cabbage and a wedding dress a wedding dress", a bride, a dress, a dab of blue color and a cabbage. Images are depicted vertically, an arrow denotes the direction in which to read them:  Brautkraut and not Krautbraut. You hold 11 cards. You slowly turn over two of them and stack them; your left neighbor names the double term of the covered card, then "wird = "turns to" and then the term of the visible card, e.g. „Kleidkraut wird BlauBraut“. In case of identical cards you say "bleibt" = "stays". When all is correct, the player now puts one card on the stack, his neighbor names the terms, and so on. When you make a mistake you take the stack. Whoever runs out of cards first, wins.

And if you want to have an even more difficult game you can give one of the word tiles to a player; in his turn he must use - depending on the tile, "braut", "klaut" or "traut" instead of "wird". At the end of his turn he hands the tile to his right neighbor.  For a completely crazy game you hand all three tiles to players and enjoy the resulting gobbledygook.

This is one of those games that you either love or hate; if you do not mind to get hopelessly lost in the thorns of Braut and traut and Kraut, you can hoot with laughter about the creations, which in turn disturbs your concentration to cope with them. In suitable rounds Blaukraut traut Kleidbraut is a huge success and lots of fun.

Players: 2-6

Age: 10+

Time: 15+

Designer: Anja Wrede, Christoph Cantzler

Artist: Johann Sturcz

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: www.zoch-verlag.com

Web: www.zoch-verlag.com

Genre: Word game

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Good fun with the right kind of group

Very simple rules

Different levels of difficulty

Compares to:

First game of this kind

Other editions:

Currently none

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