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Ego Pictures

Let pictures do the talking!

Just as in Ego and Ego Love in this game, too, the Ego of players is the topic; the focus is on impressions, associations, reactions, and, in the end, assessment of other players.

Each player is given a set of number tiles, 1 to 6, in his color; the image cards are sorted by numbers and stacked, one image from each stack is turned up. The active player, called the “individual player”, draws the top task, reads it to the others and, if necessary, randomly turns up one of his number tiles and marks the corresponding image or term card with the arrow marker.

Possible tasks are: Assign one image to another; assign one of the images to a certain term; assign a term to a certain image or assign one of the images to the individual player. The individual player also makes his choice and the other players have to reach accordance with his choice, their own opinion is not the deciding factor for their choice of image of term. When all player have chosen one of their number tiles the chosen tiles are revealed and scored. As an alternative the rules suggest to reveal the number tiles individually and let each player state a reason for his choice. The individual player scores for each correlation with other players and those players also score; when there is no correlation with the choice of the individual player, the other players score for correlations between themselves.

The game leaves a lot of room for discussions, remarks, questions and surprised reactions as well as statements of the individual player, and in the end this is the purpose of the game, communication between players and revelations about your own Ego!

Players: 3-8

Age: 12+

Time: 40+

Designer: Günter Burkhardt

Art: Huch! & friends

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Huch! & friends 2012

Web: www.huchandfriends.de

Genre: Communication game

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Standard mechanisms

Classy components and design

Very good selection of images

Compares to:

Ego, Ego Love and other communication games based on player assessments

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0