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Colorful

Game ID: GID0072795
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2019
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Description

Colorful is a game about categorizing and matching colors as a group. Each round a player will come up with a specific example within a broad topic, for the group to secretly match with a color card from their hand. After 5 rounds, cards are checked to see if the group or an individual wins!

—description from the publisher

Description

Colorful is a game about categorizing and matching colors as a group. Each round a player will come up with a specific example within a broad topic, for the group to secretly match with a color card from their hand. After 5 rounds, cards are checked to see if the group or an individual wins!

—description from the publisher

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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Super simple
  • Wide appeal
  • Great for non-gamers
  • Social experiment
  • Portable
Cons
  • Stark white cover (subjective)
  • Font doesn't fit (subjective)
Thematic elements
  • Matching colors to associated words
Comparison games
  • Tokyo Market
  • Tsuro
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Set Collection — Players match colors from their hand to associated words.
  • word association — One person picks a word, and everyone associates a color with that word.
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