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| Topic | a short ranking of the tabletop games i played in 2021 |
| SeabassDebeste 03/05/22 12:01:51 PM #61: | 51. Hey Robot https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/292350/hey-robot Category: Team vs team Key mechanics: Clue-giving, novelty Rules complexity (0 to 7): 0 Game length: 20 minutes First played: 2021 Experience: 1 play with 4-6 players Hey Robot is one of the absolute simplest games here. When it's your team's turn, you choose someone to be the active player, and that player chooses a word on a word grid. They then talk to a device like Amazon Echo or Google Home and ask the device a question. If the device's answer includes the keyword, you score points. That's it. That's the game. It's fun. It's clearly a game, but it definitely begins to veer into the "activity" category because the core goal is so simple and since there's no real interaction with anyone else. But it does succeed as a party game/icebreaker activity simply because it's fun not only to play your turn, but to watch other people try to understand how you can get Google to say (for instance) "bedroom" without using either of the associated words. Nice novelty experience. --- yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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