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Leg los!

Draw with sticks and discs

Minimalism is the motto of the game, because you have only 4 big and 8 small discs and 7 long and 14 short sticks at your disposal to form as many images as possible, depicted on tiles, within the time frame given by the timer.

16 image tiles are randomly placed on a board and the items named; number tiles from 1 to 16 are shuffled and stacked face-down and are drawn by the active artist one by one, and only visible to him, to determine the current template. As the active artist you then use discs and sticks to illustrate the item. You may not give clues by sounds, talking or gestures, may not incorporate the guess markers, may not depict numbers, must not hold on to pieces and also not give a hint by looking at your template too obviously. Items not included in the game may not be placed on or near the placement board. All players have one guess each. When the item was guessed correctly or if guessing takes too long or if the term is too difficult, you draw the next number tile for the next template, and so on, until the timer has run out. And here comes the snag: All components already used for depicting items cannot be used again, you have to work with whatever components are left. If you guess a term correctly you mark it on the board with one of your guessing cubes and score one point for each cube placed; the artist scores one point for each term that was guessed correctly. In the advanced version you use 20 image tiles.

Not new, but cute and good creative fun, and rather difficult due to the restrictions in components. You need to find the right balance between minimalistic and not too abstract!

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Carlo A. Rossi

Artist: Benedikt Beck

Price: ca. 28 Euro

Publisher: Zoch Verlag 2014

Web: www.zoch-verlag.com

Genre: Creative shape placement

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Known Mechanism

Good mix of templates

Minimalistic presentations necessary

Compares to:

“Wat’n dat?” from Ass and other definition games using geometrical shapes

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 2