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Nymble
Game
Description:
Nymble is a hilarious new
game of debatable interpretations! It will
challenge – and expand – your
vocabulary. It’s so much fun, you won’t
realize how much you’re learning
while you play!
The objective
of the game is to find as many word pairs as possible with
the same
meanings (synonyms), opposite meanings (antonyms) and
sound-alikes
(homonyms), in a three-round race against the clock.
Your fellow
players will assess whether your command of the English
language is as
good as you think it is. But don't worry if they judge you
harshly –
you'll have an equal opportunity to judge them too!
Nymble uses our new electronic Universal Game Timer, which is
also available separately.
If someone told you that the words "leg" and "limb" have the same
meaning, would you challenge them? "Of course they're not" you'd
respond.
"It's true that a leg is a limb; but so is an arm", you'd explain.
What if they said that "walking" and "stationary" were opposites?
You might
respond that cars can be stationary, but you don't usually find them
walking!
So you would conclude that "moving" is really the opposite of
"stationary",
because it applies to things as well as animals.
This is the kind of lively, and often hilarious, debate that occurs when
playing the fun new game called Nymble. The game is played in three
rounds.
In round 1, players try to make pairs of words with the same meaning
(synonyms); in round 2, pairs of words with opposite meanings
(antonyms);
and in the last round, pairs of words that sound alike (homonyms).
The more word pairs they make, the higher their score could be.
The form of play is somewhat like Scattergories, in that each player
conceals
his/her answer sheet behind a folder, and that 3 minutes is the period
allowed
in each round for players to write down their word lists. But that's
where the
similarity ends. In Nymble, each round begins with players rolling a
30-sided
letter die to generate a random collection of 9 letters containing no
more
than 6 vowels or 6 consonants.
Nymble includes a neat little digital timer that's used to time the 3
minutes
of play. Word pairs in each round must include at least one word of
length
2 to 9 letters made from the collection of letters. the other word of
the pair
doesn't have to come from the collection; but it's worth a lot more if
it does!
When the 3 minutes of a round are up, players in turn read out their
list
of word pairs.
This is where the fun begins! IF you don't agree with a particular word
pair,
try to grab the "challenge piece" sitting in the middle of the table
before
anyone else does! A debate like those outlined above often ensues
between
the challenged player and the challenger. The final decision, however,
lies in the hands of all players - literally. Players conceal red or
green
tokens in their hands to vote in favor of or against the challenge, and
then
expose their tokens simultaneously.
The scoring, of course, reflects the success or failure of challenges,
and
the player who ends up with the highest aggregate total from word pairs
and challenges after the three rounds is declared the winner.
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