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Get rid of your cards as quickly as possible to obtain the most points. Over and out!
Walkie Talkie is a co-operative game in which players have a very limited amount of time — 30 seconds per player — to get rid of all the cards in their hand, and the more cards that you play, the higher your score.
Everybody has a hand of six cards; cards have a letter on one side and a color on another, and you have to hold your cards however they're dealt to you. Place one card from the deck letter side up and another color side up. When the timer starts, everybody plays at the same time. You can play a letter on the letter pile as long as you can name something that starts with that letter and that "matches" the current color showing; similarly, you can play a color on the color pile as long as you can name something of that color that starts with the letter atop the letter pile. For example, when playing a "B" card next to a yellow card, you could say "Banana!", and when playing an orange card next to an "L", you could say "Lion!" You can't repeat a word previously given, and you can't name the color of the color card.
Whenever you want, you can say "Roger!", and all players must flip the cards in their hand, so letters become colors and vice versa. Alternatively, you can say "Over!", and players pass their cards to the left.
When time runs out, you gain points equal to the number of stars on played letter cards, then subtract 1 point for each unplayed card. Try to score as many points as you can!
- cooperative
- sounds simple until your brain betrays you
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Party Game — a cooperative party game
- Real-Time — you only have 30 seconds per player to do it
- word association — say a word that starts with a letter and matches the color of the card
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- Enomia
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- it was our first trip to gen con in indianapolis also known as the best four days in gaming
- we have a very expensive toll highway in our neck of the woods so we always tell our map apps to ignore toll roads which means it's also going to ignore the toll tunnel and the toll bridges that would get us across the border in a reasonable amount of time so instead we drove through buffalo which i mean i don't recommend it that means we took the scenic route down to indianapolis which we are expecting to be about an eight-hour drive it was 13.
- gencon was being super safe this year by requiring masks and proof of vaccinations so the first task was to wait in this unbelievably long line to show our vaccination papers
- if you want to go hit the comment section complaining about masks and vaccines don't even bother because i'm going to delete it
- we thought for sure that attending a conference of 50 000 people will get the job done but we stayed masked all week and when we got home look at that no covid it's funny how that works
- if you're gonna go to gen con i definitely recommend eating first and lining up later
- multiple cge reps described as bonkers so i can't wait
- i thought the component quality was a little crummy even in this deluxe version
- indianapolis wound up being my least favorite city that starts with i and ends in indianapolis
- Match madness duo turned out to be a compelling hit
- i just could close my eyes for a little bit
- this was my favorite mask of the show by the way
- detroit seemed way cooler than indianapolis by the way let's have gencon there next year
- cheryl jerry rigged these tim hortons cups as rain barrels to keep us dry