Kaleidos (1995)

From Game Report Review:

The game comes with four identical sets of ten paintings, each depicting a scene packed (to greater and lesser extents) with various objects. Each of up to four players or teams uses their own set, so there’s no craning around to see the picture at the far end of the table. In fact, spiffy cardboard easels prop up the scenes nicely so they’re easier to view. Everyone loads identical scenes onto their easels and a deck of cards provides a letter for the round. Everyone gets sixty seconds to write down as many things beginning with that letter as they can find in the scene. Although each word can be used only once - a football and baseball wouldn’t count as two BALLS - an object can be used multiple times for different words (e.g., BASEBALL, BALL). Once time has expired, players read through the lists. Any object on multiple lists scores one point for those who wrote it. Any item unique to a single list scores three points. When all lists have been scored everyone advances to the next scene and a new letter is chosen. The high score after all 12 scenes wins.

Re-implemented by:

• Kaleidos Junior

Awards

• 2010 Årets Selskapsspill (Party Game of the Year, Norway) Winner
• 2009 Lucca Games Best of Show (Italy), Side Award Best Concept Art
• 2009 Deutscher Lernspielpreis Game of the Year (9 yrs and up), Winner
• 2009 Golden Ace Nominated.
• 1995 Spiel des Jahres Recommendation.
• 1995 Golden Ace Winner.

A new edition of the game, completely redesigned by the italian artists Elena Prette and Marianna Fulvi, has been published in 2008 by Ystari/Cocktail Games.