Mutabo

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Mutabo
Game data
author Kathi Kappler , Johann Rüttinger
graphic Kathi Kappler , Johann Rüttinger ,
Rolf Vogt
publishing company Three rabbits in the evening sun
Publishing year 2017
Art Communication game
Teammates 3 to 6
Duration 25 to 45 minutes
Age from 12 years

Mutabo is a communication and paper-and-pencil game by the German game designer couple Kathi Kappler and Johann Rüttinger , which was published by their game publisher Drei Hasen in der Abendsonne in 2017 . The game is based on the well-known principle of chain sentences and, at the same time, the silent post , in which the players pass around a piece of paper and react to a written sentence with a picture and to a picture in turn with a sentence.

Theme and equipment

The game is a communication game that consists of two sets of 54 cards, a A4 writing pad and enough pencils for all players. The first set of cards consists of several sets of beginning, the second of corresponding ends of sets.

Style of play

At Mutabo there is no starting player, all players play at the same time. Each player receives a sheet of paper and a pencil, and each player draws one card with the beginning of a sentence and one with the end of a sentence. From these, the players combine a sentence that they write on the top of the paper. On one character, all sheets of paper are passed on to the right neighbor, who now has to draw a suitable picture for the sentence like with Pictionary and then folds back the written sentence. The sheet with the picture is passed on again and the next player tries to derive another sentence from the picture, which he writes down.

In this way the sheets are passed on until each player has his original paper again. The results are read aloud and shown around. There is no winner of the game, but players can vote on the most creative series. The enclosed paper sheets allow up to six players, and sheets for five, seven or eight participants can also be downloaded from the publisher's website.

Publication and reception

The game Mutabo was developed by Kathi Kappler and her husband Johann Rüttinger and was published in a first, red, edition for the 2017 international game days in their game publisher Drei Hasen in der Abendsonne . A second edition in a blue box followed in 2018. In 2019, Mini-Mutabo, a smaller version of the game without pads and pens, consisting of 100 new cards that can be played both as a supplement to Mutabo and on its own, was released.

In its style of play, the game corresponds to well-known party games, in which word and sentence chains are formed. In the English-speaking world, there is also a game known as Eat Poop You Cat , which corresponds to the game Mutabo in its style of play . Building on this, there are other games, including Telestrations (published in German as Stille Post Extrem ), which has won several game awards internationally, and several offshoots.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c game instructions Mutabo , Three Rabbits in the Evening Sun 2018
  2. ↑ Mutabo , versions at BoardGameGeek. Retrieved December 28, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Mini-Mutabo in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English); Retrieved December 28, 2019.
  4. ↑ Eat Poop You Cat in the BoardGameGeek game database (English); Retrieved December 28, 2019.
  5. ↑ Telestrations in the BoardGameGeek game database (English); Retrieved December 28, 2019.

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