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68. Hues and Cues

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/302520/hues-and-cues

Category: Player vs Player
Key mechanics: Clue-giving, novelty
Rules complexity (0 to 7): 0
Game length: 10-20 minutes
First played: 2021
Experience: 1 play, 6 players
Previous ranks: N/A

So... in this game, you've got a grid of colors, on a gradient. The active player draws a card that tells them their secret color and its position on this grid. They then have to give a clue to the players to have them guess that color by placing their pawns on the grid. After seeing initial guesses, the cluegiver gets to give one more clue to let people adjust their guesses. Cluegivers get points for the number of successful guessers; guessers get points for successful guesses.

That's... that's pretty much it. The fun factor on this is pretty good; it's funny to watch people struggle to decide whether the correction from "ocean" to "storm" means their initial blue guess should become greyer or whiter. You'll find yourself giving clues like "banana" or "Kermit" a lot, if you're anything like my group. And that's all pretty good for a laugh, but there's not a whole lot to this design, or a whole lot of replayability in my eyes.

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