Bring your own book

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Bring your own book
Game data
author Matthew Moore
graphic Luke Nalker
publishing company Self-published,
Gamewright , Noris Spiele ,
Scholastic Entertainment Inc.
Publishing year 2015
Art
Teammates 3 to 8
Duration about 20 minutes
Age from 8 years

Awards

Bring Your Own Book is a communication and party game by Matthew Moore , first self-published in 2015 and later by various consumer publishers. Noris Spiele published a German-language version for the International Game Days in Essen 2017. The aim of the game is that the other players read passages from their own books that are suitable for the corresponding task cards.

Furnishing

The game itself consists of a set of 100 task cards, an hourglass and a set of rules. In addition to this game material, each player needs a book or a magazine from which he can read answers or passages according to the task cards.

Style of play

To prepare for the game, each player is given a book (or a magazine, etc.) from which he can later search for passages. Each player can bring their own book or random books can be made available. The task cards are shuffled and placed face down in the center of the table, next to which the hourglass is placed.

The game begins with a starting player (according to the rules of “the one who last read a book”). The starting player, called "Goethe", takes a task card at the beginning of each round and reads one of the two tasks out loud and all players with the exception of Goethe try to find a suitable answer from their book. If a player has found something suitable, he turns the hourglass and all players have 60 seconds to find a suitable passage.

Once the time is up, all players must stop searching. Starting with the player who turned the hourglass over, all players read aloud their answer from their books. All players who have not found a suitable answer open their book anywhere and read a paragraph that catches their eye first. After all the players have read, Goethe has to decide which post, in his opinion, best fits the task. The player whose contribution was selected receives the card as a reward. For the next round, the neighbor of the previous Goethe becomes the new Goethe and selects the new task.

The game ends when a player is dealt three cards. That player wins the game.

Variant "A cheer for democracy"

For the variant “A cheer for democracy” there should be at least four players. In this variant there is no game master, instead a starting player draws a task card and all players including him have to find a corresponding answer in their books. Here, too, the first person to find a suitable passage turns the hourglass and thus limits the remaining time of his fellow players.

Unlike in the basic version, no single player determines the winner. Instead, the starting player counts down and all players point to a player whose passage they think did the best job. The player with the most votes wins the card and in the event of a tie, everyone involved in the game receives a card as a reward. Depending on the number of players, the first player to receive four (with more than 6 players) or five (with 4 to 6 players) cards wins the game. If there is a tie, multiple players win.

Expenses and reception

The game Bring Your Own Book was developed by Matthew Moore and self-published by him in 2015. In 2016 the game was published by the American publisher Gamewright, and in 2017 it was published in a German-language version by Noris Spiele . Another English edition was published by Scholastic Entertainment Inc. in 2019.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Bring Your Own Book , rules of the game from the German edition of Noris Spiele, 2017.
  2. ↑ Versions of Bring Your Own Book in the BoardGameGeek game database ; accessed on December 13, 2019

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