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Activity

Franz Ferdinand

Franz Ferdinand is a pig and has a TV show of his own in the Austrian Television Station ORF in its okidoki children’s program - and he is the first license character to be honored with his own edition of Activity.

The mechanics and the rules of the game remain the same and are familiar; as usual one must explain a term to one’s team members by drawing, describing or pantomime in a way that the team recognizes and correctly guesses the term. In analogy to other editions the location of the team marker determines the way to explain the term. Up to four teams can play; all teams must have at least two members. One member of a team is the active one -the team determines in which order team members become active explainers - and tries to convey the term in the current way, all other members of the team guess and the members of the other team or teams watch out for rule violations. When your own team guesses the term correctly, your team markers moves the number of steps indicated next to the term. In case of a six next to the term, the rules are slightly different: All teams can try to guess the term; the marker of the team that guesses correctly moves ahead by six steps. The board has been adapted to the topic and shows a corresponding design; the terms can be rather challenging - I would be hard put to quickly think up a way to draw “pirate radio transmission” or how to explain “Flashlight” with a pantomime.

This version of Activity is yet another one in the series of entertaining and well-done games and Franz Ferdinand makes it a doubly interesting adaptation of a successful game principle.

Players: 4-12

Age: 7+

Time: 45+

Designer: Paul Catty, Ernst Führer

Art: not named

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Piatnik 2012

Web: www.piatnik.com

Genre: Communication game

Users: For children

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

License topic

Familiar standard mechanism

Felicitous, attractive adaptation

Compares to:

Activity junior

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 1