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Casting spells standing up

Perform spells on your feet! One set of big cards and one set of small cards represent identical sets of spells. Aim of the game is to guess as many spells as possible and enable other players to guess as many spells as possible, too. Each player receives a spell book to collect spells; cards are sorted by colors - blue, green, purple and red - and size. Two of the eight decks are selected; for a simple game you select blue and green. Take care! The red deck is only suitable for experienced players. The big cards are placed in a 5x5 grid with a gap in the middle, the small cards are stacked.

The active magician draws a small card from the stack and imitates the spell on the card with the magic wand in a way that players identify the spell from the movement, the magician can name the background color of the card.

Each player can guess only once, by pointing at the card and naming the spell. The active magician can repeat the gesture, but only while there is more than one player left to give a guess.

When the correct spell card is guessed, the active player receives the small card, the guesser the big card; he becomes the new active magician and must face the challenge on the card - once only or permanently, in case of the red cards, until he guesses a new card. If you do not resolve those challenges correctly, you lose a small card previously acquired and the spell ends immediately. When there are only ten big cards left in the grid, you win with most collected cards.

Cute, funny and not that easy, but a really well-made mechanisms that is as much fun in guessing as in gesticulating the spells.

Players: 3-8

Age: 7+

Time: 15+

Designer: Antonin Boccara

Artist: Jules Dubost

Price: ca. 19 Euro

Publisher: Buzzy Games 2018

Web: www.buzzygames.net

Genre: Guessing gestures

Users: For families

Special: Many players

Version: en

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Cute idea

Careful gesturing necessary

Attractive, unusual family game

Compares to:

Games based on deciphering gestures

Other editions:

Buzzy (fr), MS Edizioni (it), Pegasus (de)

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 4

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3