When at Simsal ... boom? looks at the cover behind one senses immediately that the game mechanics that you can not see his cards, was picked up and varied here.
This may of course result in a totally great game - or a mediocre clone. With Bomb Squad another game is coming which takes up this idea and which game exrem looks promising on the market this year. How Alakazam ... boom? I show goes once you see above video.
Briefly together:
It has five small stones standing before him, show the symbols with numerical values of 1-8. Each number is in accordance with prior often. The 1 again, the 8 eight times, etc. set up in two-player game are also twelve other stones and put on the board, so you can see a total of 17 stones (the 12 open and the five from teammate). In game three of 6 openly held up, so that one sees 16 (the 10 of his teammates. With more players no pillars will be placed open, so you can see the corresponding number of stones of his teammates. Another four stones are covered on the Schedule
If you're on the train have to guess or estimate correctly which stones have been standing before him. One calls a number, for example 5. Once you are this stone in front of him, is one of the players it on the game board. Now one does not recommend another number. If this is also in front of a, it is stored again. If you make it in his train to appoint all the bricks correctly one has won the round and gets no points, the other players. The first player to eight, won.
So far, so banal.
A little spice gets it, in which each number called the same as the aforementioned must be always higher or. So I call first a 7, because there is often Sevens, I may say the next time only 7 or 8. So of course it is worth it at low speeds to start, but with a 2 for example, is the chance that they have been really stand out in front of him, of course, very low. Which may also be a trick to call the 1 that precedes a teammate. As you yourself so all the players can take so that the 1 probably does not stand in front of them except our own stones looks.
But even that would not yet really exciting and could acuh to do with the subject slightly.
The stones symbolize the face a magic spells that you can say ... or maybe not. Each player has six life points to start of the round.
Whenever you call a wrong number, you lose a life point. Therefore you always close the correct number has been called a get out the way to lose no life point. Whenever you stop or is incorrect, it then moves back to five stones (without looking at them look at each).
Each number is as mentioned for a spell. Through these awards, you can recover hit points, all players remove health points or just the player to his left or right of it, you can look at the stones out of the center and thus extra points (and more information) received.
Thus, you can additionally try his teammates deliberately hurt to get more information or to heal up. The 8 is the potion with which one gets a life point back.
If you switch from another player in which one reduces his life points to 0 is obtained for 3 points, all other players one point. If one switches itself off, for example, in which you have called the wrong number and only has one life, all anderne players do not get a victory point, only to itself.
You play as many rounds until one player has received eight points, that player wins then.
Conclusion:
The game works. These three words could reduce the Conclusion. What in theory sounds nice and interesting plays also nice, but - at least in our laps - not really interesting.
While it has a relatively high number information and in principle it is always to look the wisest of the number of whom there are just the most hidden stones and to name one of them. One can take the risk of a low number to call to VLT thereby. be able to trigger a strong effect, but the whole thing is just connected with the risk of losing life.
The effects can also be not really installed specifically because you just need to an ever think about what you have in front of him, and therefore not on the VLT. important effects has, and if you have any idea what could face a one is also just linked thereto. If you have the appropriate number really stand out in front of him, you have to deal with the effect, even if you would prefer to remove the player from the right to life points, as the player to the left of one. In this regard, it is played from the game.
Also this Zahlenraten - nice wenns works, but if not, that's how it is.
In our rounds of this game could never really trigger enthusiasm, it had no flavor, the issue never really came through, the mechanisms are not interesting enough interlocked as one would participate with interest in the game.
The rule says that you always with a magnificent voice spells to speak - it would be great if you could just written an example sentence or example to noise. Clear so you can try his imagination, but fall a very similar sounding noises one with most sayings.
All in all, I would always draw Hanabi this game here before. Yes I know, Hanabi is fully cooperative and many people bother this (as you can see on the reviews here on Amazon). This game here is purely competitively - but to also pretty heartless. Although designed with love, but the game a never unpacked.
We played the same evening immediately after this game, the other Pegasus novelty "Crazy Coconuts" and as all players were from the very beginning there and the game has caused more excitement with increasing playing time - and was thus unfortunately in strong Kontast to Alakazam ... Bumm ?!
But that's just my opinion, you looked at the video, you'll get an idea of how the game works and if you want to try it anyway, I hope that you have more fun with it :)
