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Just One turns the party-game concept upside down. Instead of the standard competitive team-versus-team format, it puts everyone on the same side. Cooperative board games have risen to immense popularity in recent years, so it’s only right that the party game genre receives a very strong contender. We will go over the components, the setup, gameplay mechanics, and the clue restrictions needed to play the game successfully. How to play Wavelength Components: plastic device, 84 Wavelength cards, 42 Advanced cards, 2 head scoring tokens, 1 guess token, plastic tray, instructions Now that you have the whole picture you can see the flow of play is a little confusing at first. This is mostly due to Wavelength’s unique setup and that big contraption not making immediate sense. Once a turn or so has passed everyone will have their "Aha!" moment and the magic will happen.
The worst part of playing a modern board game is “the teach” — that interminable period of time when you first sit down to share something unusual with a new group of people. Very rarely comes a game that literally has no “teach” moment, where you can just sit down and run through the opening few rounds and things just sorta make sense. Lacuna, the latest offering from CMYK, is just that sort of magical offering: a chill game, built for good vibes, that requires almost no explanation. Remain on Topic: Your clue should relate to the concepts printed on the wavelength card. You can’t use one of the words on the wavelength card for its double meaning. For example you can’t create a clue where “hot” is utilized as attractive instead of a high temperature on the hot-cold wavelength card. It's bright, it's visceral and it's in your face. Wavelength is a game anyone can play. There are very few rules to remember, very few components and it feels oddly familiar. Even non-gamers, once they have seen a round being played will be up in your face in the next round arguing about why your clue was rubbish. Wavelength will get your game night off to a great start, everyone is involved at all times and not just a fun game but a great team activity too. Your team’s goal is to guess correctly using the clue given by one of the players (the psychic) to hit the target as close as possible.
Video Tutorial on how to play Wavelength board game
No Numbers: You cannot use numbers, percentages, ratios, or any other number related word to suggest the position of the target. If a number is part of a proper name, you can use a number. For this round the Psychic has to give a clue on the spectrum from “for kids” to “for adults”. As the range is on the kids side, they will have to come up with something that is mostly for kids. A possible clue is an imaginary friend. If the 4 point wedge is not completely visible, you will have to randomly select a new location for the target. Should some of the wedges be on both sides of the spectrum, you will keep the target where it is. When giving clues you are trying to get your teammates to target the side of the spectrum that the four point wedge is on. You will not score points if your teammates hit a wedge on the other side of the spectrum. When the player randomized the target area, the result was as pictured. As the 4 section is still visible, the player will not change the target area. The player will try to target the right side of the spectrum as that is the only way that their teammates will score points. If the current team scored four points in the previous round, they have a chance to play again in the next round. If the team scored four points and is still behind the other team, they will get to play the next round as well. A new player will be chosen as the Psychic for the next round though. Winning Wavelength
It’s as simple as that. The novelty of the game, however, comes from the diversity in the word cards. Some are straightforward, fairly obvious, unambiguous (such as dark/light). However, some are possibly more subjective, such as sport/game or smells good/smells bad. Chose which team will start the game. The team that goes first keeps their head token in the zero slot. The other team moves their head token to the one point space.
Wavelength takes less than a minute to set up and is played entirely in the box: you can just pass the game around without ever taking anything out. To start, place the device (the big plastic thing with the dial and rotating wheel) into the slot in the middle of the box's tray. The #1 Reddit source for news, information, and discussion about modern board games and board game culture.
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