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The Eyez

Look out for matching eyes!

Eyez in the game are black discs, showing different but rather similar markings in black and white on one side – they look a bit like eyes, at least some of them – and a black surface on the back. There are at least two discs for any given pattern, some patters are featured in odd numbers.

All eyes are shuffled pattern-side down, and then all play simultaneously and try to collect correct pairs of eyes as quickly as they can, and of course without mistakes, and they may only use one hand for the search. You pick up an Eyez, look at it by yourself and have two options: 1) You memorize the pattern on the Eyez, put it back face-down on the table and memorize where you did put it, too. Or, 2), you put this Eyez face-down on an Eyez on the table and take the pair for yourself, but you are not allowed to look at the second Eyez in the pair. When all pieces have been taken as parts of pairs owned by players, or when all players agree that there are only single pieces left on the table which cannot be used to form a pair anymore, you score the pairs you did take: Each correct pair scores two points, two identical pairs give you a bonus point and for each incorrect pair you must deduct a point from your score.

Of course, you should and will prepare a few pieces so that you know a few patterns and can pick up pairs with some assurance, but you must hope that you find matching pairs quickly and no other players steals one of your prepared pieces.

Anyway, The Eyez is an entertaining, unusual and rather tricky memo variant, the individual patterns are devilishly similar and of course those are the ones that are there most often.

Players: 2

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Dominique Breton, Cédric Chaboussit

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Goliath Toys 2016

Web: www.goliathgames.com

Genre: search, memorize, collect

Users: For families

Special: 2 players

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr nl pl pt

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very similar images

Nice version of the memo mechanism

Rather chaotic when played in a big group

Compares to:

Memo games using very nearly identical images

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 1