Lately I was at the housewarming party in my friend's new home and I decided to bring some board games, just for fun. It was actually a great idea! I brought 3 games which I totally want to recommend. Their rules are simple, easy to get even if you have never played in any game but Monopoly or Scrabble.
Firstly I want to introduce something for your creativity, imagination and capability to make associations. Dixit is actually a french card game which won the Spiel des Jahres award in 2010. The gameplay is simple. Each person is given 6 random card. One of you is a Storyteller, who make an association to one of his cards. He say his association and put his card backwards in the middle of the table. The rest have to match the card which will describe this association in the best way and also put it on the table (obviously among their own 6 cards). Then the Storyteller mix all of cards from the table and put them in order. The rest have to choose the first card, picked by Storyteller, by the secret vote. If the association was too easy and everyone has picked the right card, the Storyteller loose. Also, if the association was too hard and no one has picked the right card, the Storyteller loose. He wins only if there was someone who picked his card but there was also people who didn't do that. After this round the new Storyteller is the gamer sitting on the left from the previous Storyteller. We score when: we gain points as a Storyteller (3 points), someone picked our card even if it wasn't the right one (1 point for 1 vote) or when we guessed correctly which card is the right one (also 3 points). The end is when someone gained 30 points.
Second game is one of my favourites: Time's Up! This game really easy check your knowledge about famous historical, contemporary or imaginary characters. You have to pick a deck with about 40-45 cards (depends on the number of gamers) with yellow characters on the top and blue characters on the bottom. Firstly you have to choose which colour you're going to play. When the number of gamers is even, you split in pairs. If the numbers isn't even, you gain points with your 2 neighbours - one from the left and one from the right. It's a bit more complicated, but I don't want to walk into details. The game has 3 rounds. 1 - you have to describe in the best way you can the character from the card so your partner can guess who's on the card. You have one minute for guess as many as you can. 2 - the same cards, one word - one answer. This time you can go on if you or your partner made a mistake. 3 - pantomime. You're allowed to use onomatopoeias, althought you can't hum "da-da-da-daaaa" if you have Ludwig van Beethoven on your card. You can also go on to the next card in case of mistake. The winner is of course the pair who guessed the most.
The last game is Party Time (known before as Party Alias). It's also the game for teams (at least 2 person in each, at least 2 teams). You have 5 types of quests:
-alphabet - all the team have to give 20 words on the letter from this card
-celebrity - one gamer from the team has 5 cards, gameplay is like in the first round of Time's Up.
-rhymes - one gamer has 5 cards, he have to compose a line which ends with the word from the card, the rest from the team have to finish by giving second line which rhymes with the first one
-pantomime - one gamer has 2 cards, he has to pantomime an animal or a job from the card (he can tell if it's an animal or a job)
-black cards - one gamer has 6 cards, it's like celebrity but here you have just different words
For each quest you gain a proper number of points. The winner is the team who reaches the finish as first.
I hope I've encouraged you to game. If you want to play or borrow any of this game, I recommend GOSU once again. Enjoy!
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