Deja-Vu (game)

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Déjà-vu
Game data
author Heinz Meister
graphic Jan Saße
publishing company Amigo
Publishing year 2017
Art Card game,
memory game,
reaction game
Teammates 2-6
Duration about 15 minutes
Age from 8 years

Awards

Deja-Vu is a card game by the German game designer Heinz Meister for two to six people. In terms of game technology, it is a memory and reaction game and was published by Amigo in 2017 . In the same year it was included on the jury's list of recommendations for Game of the Year .

Theme and equipment

Deja-Vu is a memory and reaction game in which the other players have to react as quickly and correctly as possible to a display of picture tiles. In addition to the game instructions, the game material consists of 36 large-format playing cards, each with one to three objects, and 36 object tiles.

Style of play

The game runs over three rounds, the winner is the player with the most correct items after these three game rounds. To prepare for the game, the tiles with the objects are distributed on the game table. The playing cards are shuffled, then three cards are drawn and removed, the rest of the pile is placed face down in the middle of the table between the objects. In addition to the stack, a space must also be left free for a discard pile.

During the course of the game, one player in turn reveals a card from the draw pile so that he cannot see it in front of his fellow players and places it face up on the discard pile. Each item is shown twice in the deck of cards. As soon as an item is revealed for the second time (or a player believes that it has already been shown once), the players try to be the first to take it from the center of the table and place it in front of them. A player can take any object at any time, even if it does not appear on the card that has just been laid out; Once taken, however, objects may no longer be put back. If an item that a player has already taken is uncovered again, the player has obviously made a mistake and is eliminated from the current round and his items are not scored (but also not put back).

The game ends after the last card is revealed. The players still in the game can decide one last time whether they want to take some of the remaining items. Then the cards removed from the deck at the start of the game are revealed and players who have taken one of the objects depicted on them are also eliminated. All players who are still in the round count their items and note the number. Then the next round begins.

Development and reception

The game Deja-Vu was developed by the German game designer Heinz Meister and published by Amigo in 2017 for the Nuremberg Toy Fair . In the same year it was published under the name Déjà vu by the Dutch publisher 999 Games and the French publisher Gigamic . Further editions appeared in Spanish (Mercurio), Japanese (Möbius Games), Chinese (Broadway Toys LTD) and as a multilingual version in Danish, Norwegian, Finnish and Swedish (Lautapelit.fi).

In the year of publication, it was included on the jury's recommendation list for Game of the Year . The jury describes the game as follows:

“Hard times for everyone involved to remember: just as many objects are shown exactly twice on 36 playing cards. Card by card, players have to decide again at lightning speed whether they have ever seen the things depicted on them. If so: grab the item belonging to it quickly! If not: leave out your fingers! If an object is revealed that a player already has in front of him, it is immediately eliminated from the current round. Two nasties make for a smart memory game experience: Firstly, three rounds are played, so that soon hardly anyone knows from which round they know the pictures that have been revealed. And secondly, many of the objects are similar to each other - that creates additional confusion! "

- Description of the jury for the Game of the Year 2017

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Game instructions Deja-Vu , Amigo Spiel + Freizeit GmbH 2017
  2. ^ Versions of Deja-Vu in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English); accessed on October 14, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Deja-Vu on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV; accessed on October 14, 2017.

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