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Wavelength is a social guessing game in which two teams compete to read each other's minds. Teams take turns rotating a dial to where they think a hidden bullseye is located on a spectrum. One of the players on your team — the Psychic — knows exactly where the bullseye is, and draws a card with a pair of binaries on it (such as: Job - Career, Rough - Smooth, Fantasy - Sci-Fi, Sad Song - Happy Song, etc). The Psychic must then provide a clue that is *conceptually* where the bullseye is located between those two binaries. For example, if the card this round is HOT-COLD and the bullseye is slightly to the "cold" side of the centre, the Psychic needs to give a clue somewhere in that region. Perhaps "salad"? After the Psychic gives their clue, their team discusses where they think the bullseye is located and turns the dial to that location on that spectrum. The closer to the center of the bullseye the team guess, the more points they score!
| Year | 2020 |
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| Designers | Wolfgang Warsch, Alex Hague, Justin Vickers |
| Artists | Sofie Hannibal, Nan Na Hvass |
| Publishers | Korea Boardgames, Galápagos Jogos, Hobby Japan, Arrakis Games, Rebel Sp. z o.o., Brain Games, Geekach LLC, Zito! Ώρα για παιχνίδι, GaGa Games, Schmidt Spiele, Gémklub, CMYK, Lord of Boards, Buró, GoKids 玩樂小子, Hid Konem (Хід Конем), Palm Court |
| Players | 2–12 |
| Time | 30–45 min |
| Status | Previously owned |
| BGG Rating | 7.1 |
| Categories | Party Game |
| Mechanics | Race, Team-Based Game, Targeted Clues |
| BGG Rank | 533 |
| Complexity | 1.11 / 5 |
| Language | Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups |
| Date | Location | Duration | Qty | Players | Scores | Winner | |
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2020-06-11 | TTS | – | 1 | ?, ?, ?, Andrea, Yashima | –, –, –, –, – | |
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2020-06-05 | TTS | – | 1 | ?, ?, ?, Andrea, Yashima | –, –, –, –, – |
My BGG Comment
In my attempts to play this online it fell flat, there was no party or humor for the most part maybe because we weren't really playing for points. I'd much rather play Codenames or Dixit. Have to try again post-pandemic. It might work better with the gizmo in person.