Anomia

Anomia BGG ↗

Your rating: 6.0

Description

Anomia plays off the fact that our minds are positively brimming with all sorts of random information: things to eat, pop songs, websites, etc... Sure, under normal circumstances, it's easy to give an example of a frozen food or a dog breed, but you'll find that your brain works a little differently under pressure! To play, draw and reveal a card from the center pile. Does the symbol on your card match one on another player's card? If so, you must quickly face-off with the other player by giving an example of the person, place, or thing on their card before they can do the same for yours. If you blurt out a correct answer first, you win their card and the drawing continues. Sounds simple, right? Wrong! Wild cards allow non-matching symbols to match, increasing the number of things to which you must pay attention. Cascading face-offs can occur when you hand over a lost card, thereby revealing a new top card on your play pile.

My BGG Comment

Why did I buy this when I don't like realtime games much? Because I like word games. I didn't even do to badly. But I doubt this will make it back to my table.

BGG Game Details

Year 2014
Designers Andrew Innes
Artists Paul Laane, Kinetic, Cezary Szulc, Peter Wocken
Publishers asmodee, Competo / Marektoy, KOSMOS, Broadway Toys LTD, Piatnik, DV Games, Anomia Press, Cocktail Games, Coiledspring Games, Happy Baobab, Lúdilo, Magellan, Nasza Księgarnia, The Op Games
Players 3–6
Time 30 min
Status Previously owned
BGG Rating 6.6
Categories Party Game, Real-time, Trivia, Word Game
Mechanics Pattern Recognition, Speed Matching
BGG Rank 1866
Complexity 1.04 / 5
Language Unplayable in another language

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Play History

Date Location Duration Qty Players Scores Winner
Anomia 2024-11-16 At home – 1 Betty, Juliane, MourningDragon, Uli, Yashima –, –, –, –, –

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