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Social/party game involving multiple languages

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Sun, 01/02/2011 - 21:22
DanogNellows
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Hello all,

I was trying to think of a party/social game that could play off the fact
the guests speak various languages. All guests speak English, but we will
also have those who speak
French,
Spanish,
Russian,
Greek
and as a added challenge, many know ASL(sign language) and
one participant would be deaf.

Any ideas?

One basic idea would be a deduction clue type game where you have to ask questions of
various people. Perhaps even having a sheet of various questions in different languages.

Maybe questions and/or answers can be similar sounding leading to confusion (laughter?) such
as in the game of Hystericoch.

I would love to hear thoughts on this interesting challenge.

Thanks
DN

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Sun, 01/02/2011 - 22:38
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Pastor_Mora
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Primitive language

Try "Aargh!Tect" from Heidelberger Spieleverlag. A total blast!

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Mon, 01/03/2011 - 05:54
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Evil ColSanders
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Try using the games that were

Try using the games that were entered for the December Game Design Showdown. =P

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Mon, 01/03/2011 - 15:05
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DanogNellows
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Thanks for the suggestions

Thanks for the suggestions but ....
I wanted to USE the various languages as part of the game. Not substitute a common language
(or non language as the case may be).

I'll have to keep working my head around this...

DN

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Mon, 01/03/2011 - 18:49
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hulken
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Ubongo might fit your bill,

Ubongo might fit your bill, it is compleatly language independent and alows for several players with manny sets...

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Mon, 01/03/2011 - 22:22
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Sorry about that

I see now we are totally missing your point here. Let me readdress this.

How about a guessing game? Say you have a "teller" player that is given a card with a subject in it (something like a "jiraffe with a hat"). The other players must guess what the card is, they can shout words in English (that everyone undestands). Now, the Teller can say whatever he wants for the others to guess his card, but only speaking in his language. No gestures are allowed, but tellers are alowed to resort to names.

Would that work?

KT!

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Tue, 01/04/2011 - 13:19
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SwampBug
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Multi-language

Anything that could play on linguistic commonalities would be awesome but atrociously hard to develop.

Maybe a Dixit type game? You try to come up with a word multiple people might know/translate, but you don't want to be too obvious.

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Wed, 01/05/2011 - 19:28
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DanogNellows
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SwampBug wrote:Anything that

SwampBug wrote:
Anything that could play on linguistic commonalities would be awesome but atrociously hard to develop.

Maybe a Dixit type game? You try to come up with a word multiple people might know/translate, but you don't want to be too obvious.


Hmm, I like both of those ideas.
Thanks!

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Mon, 03/07/2011 - 13:11
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Do the players have to know

Do the players have to know the language or can they be given a sentance in the original language and the translation below it on a card and have to try to get as many other players as possible to guess the meaning of the phrase. So one player would draw a card, let's say in French and in English, they must use the French sentence and charades while other players write down what they think the sentence is. The card drawing player would gain points for every other player who guesses the phrase. You might also want to make it so guessers lose points for guessing wrong or alternatively gain points for guessing right, giving an advantage to people who speak a lot of languages. I don't know if this is the type of game you were thinking of but I thought I'd make the suggestion.

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