We are the robots

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We are the robots
Game data
author Reinhard Staupe
graphic Oliver Freudenreich
publishing company Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Publishing year 2020
Art cooperative game
Teammates 2 to 6
Duration about 15 minutes
Age from 5 years

Awards

We are the robots is a cooperative game by Reinhard Staupe that was published in spring 2020 by Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag GmbH as part of the "Yellow Series". Two to six players try to develop a common sense of time and speed in We are the robots by sending the robot Robbi on a course and catching it again in the right place.

Style of play

One player takes on the role of the robot Robbi, who drives along a course at one of 3 specified speeds. Robbi says "BEEP" when starting and when stopping. The other players have to find out which object Robbi has stopped at on the course. If the team is correct or approximately correct, it receives chips. The more chips the team has collected after 11 rounds, the better they did at We are the robots !

Game flow - cooperative variant

The 12 boards are shuffled and laid out in a stack with the orange route facing up. The 50 blue chips are laid out next to them. One player takes on the role of robot Robbi. He pulls the top card from the pile and looks at the gray back so that no one else can see it. The board on the stack is the race track for the current lap and shows different items and a number in the lower right corner.

The robot player now checks which of the 3 speeds is the one that he has to use this round. It corresponds to the number on the top sheet of the stack. This tells him how fast Robbi is going (slow, medium or difficult) and where Robbi should go. It communicates the speed out loud - but does not reveal the object. Then he starts the race by saying "BEEP" out loud - that means Robbi is driving. As soon as he says "BEEP" again, Robbi is stopped. Now the other players have to guess which object Robbi stopped at. If your tip is exactly correct, you receive 3 chips. If your tip is exactly one item to the right or left of it, you receive 2 chips, otherwise you get nothing.

After that, the board is placed in the box and the next player in clockwise direction continues by taking over the role of the robot.

The game ends after 11 rounds. The more chips the team has collected, the better! 15 are already very good, over 20 are really great, from 25 they can call their performance "robot strong" and everything around 30 is almost unearthly good!

Game flow - competitive variant for 3 to 6 players

It is played in the same way as in the cooperative game with a few exceptions: When the robot comes to a standstill with the second "BEEP", everyone gives a tip one after another. If you are correct, you get 2 chips. If you tapped an object next to it, you get 1 chip. The robot player receives 1 chip for each player who guessed exactly correctly. The robot player changes clockwise every round. The game is played until everyone has been a robot three times, so that the boards are shuffled when the pile is empty. Whoever has collected the most chips at the end wins.

expenditure

The game We Are The Robots was developed by Reinhard Staupe and published in January 2020 as a new release for the Nuremberg Toy Fair by Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag GmbH (NSV) in German and in parallel by White Goblin Games in Dutch. The illustrations come from the illustrator Oliver Freudenreich .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Game instructions We are the robots , Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag 2020
  2. ↑ We are the robots , versions at BoardGameGeek. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .

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