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Speedy Words

quick associations

60 round cards have a letter side and a category side; the category side shows a pictogram and a color background for each category, the letter carries three different letters in three colors. Cards are shuffled and stacked category side up - categories are Animals, Town, Country, Item, Plant/Tree, Food, Famous Person, Job, Name for a Boy / Girl and Film/TV series.

The starting player turns over the top card and begins the discard pile. All players quickly call a word that fits the category and begins with the letter of the color corresponding to the category color. The first term called for the card counts. If the term is correct, that is, fits the category and letter for the category, the player who named the term gets the card and reveals the next one. If you name a wrong term or a term that has already been used, you give back one of your cards already won and put it with the current card underneath the stack. For the letters A, O und U you may also name words beginning with Ä, Ö or Ü. When only one card is left in the stack, you win with most cards.

A standard mechanism for association game, the difference is in the pictograms for the categories, which make the game completely language-independent. Some of the pictograms can be varied for new categories, you could name landmarks instead of towns or furniture instead of items or actors instead of films and series or name items of male or female gender instead of names for boys and girls. Anyhow, the categories cover nearly everything and the three letters provide enough variety for many games and thanks to the handy tin you can take and play the game anywhere.

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 10+

Designer: TREO Game Designers

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: Game Factory 2016

Web: www.gamefactory-spiele.com

Genre: Words, associations

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Handy tin

Standard mechanism

Pictograms for categories

Compares to:

All word finding games on starting letters and categories

Other editions:

Foxmind (en, fr, he), Lúdilo (es)

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 1

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 0