Repos Production • 2018
One player closes their eyes. A word card goes up — say, "Pyramid". Everyone else secretly writes a one-word clue to help the guesser. Before the guesser opens their eyes, you compare clues. Any duplicates get removed. So if three people wrote "Egypt", all three get cancelled. The guesser only sees the remaining clues. Maybe they're left with "Pharaoh" and "Triangle" and that's enough. Maybe everyone wrote the same thing and they get nothing. That's the whole game. No scoring track, no special powers, no complicated rules. You play 13 cards and count how many the guesser got right. The fun is in the duplicate-cancelling. You want to be helpful, but you also don't want to write the obvious clue that everyone else will write. It creates this tension where you're trying to outthink your own teammates — not to beat them, but to help them differently than everyone else. Works best with 5-7 players. Fewer than that and duplicates rarely happen, which removes the interesting part. It's a Spiel des Jahres winner and probably the single lowest-friction game you can bring to any social gathering.
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