I brought a smaller game to work lunch than last time. This made it less of a hassle to bike with.
Concept 4-12 players
I
love charades. I'm not a huge fan of the game, but I love using the
charades mechanic in real life situations. I'll be out with Liz and
I'll want to remind her that we have a new episode of Ultimate Survival
Alaska to watch, so I start making weird motions with my hands. Liz will
roll her eyes and yell at me a lot, but eventually she figure out what
the crap I'm going on about. I love it. She hates it.
I had heard about Concept when
it was a nominee for the Spiel De Jahres and knew I needed it when I
watched it played on
Gamenight!.
It's charades confined to a board. You use colored tokens (look
familiar?) on a board filled with symbols for everything from gender to
geometric shapes. Big tokens represent the big ideas and the small cubes
will add context to the matching color theme. It's not too hard when
you are doing nouns or verbs, but get much harder when you need to
convey the phrase "get up on the wrong side of the bed" for example. The person
giving clues can use the tokens however they want to on the board, but
can only ever say yes if they talk at all. If you aren't getting
anywhere, you can bring in a friend to help. There is a point system but
we never bother. This makes it more of a group activity than a game.
We all had at least one go at giving clues. Most of us had two goes. I started us out to get the ball rolling and they took to it fast. Most people picked medium or easy concepts for their first and on the second attempt, they took it up a notch. Everyone was successful eventually. The last one required a tag in. It's sometimes good to get an outside perspective. The biggest hurdle of this game is knowing all your options for clues. As we played, I made sure to point out certain icons if it seemed like the answers were leaning a certain way. It was a really great and relaxing game to play for a lunch.
Tally: 76/162 Bonus: 21/50
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