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2020 Ranked #12,624

Black It Out

Roll-and-write puzzle game has players total dice to determine shapes and draw them onto personal grids. Efficient placements black out more spaces, turning a simple roll into a quick tactical decision.

Dice Print & Play Grid Coverage Paper-and-Pencil

Players

?-?

Play time

10-30 min

Age

4+

Complexity

1/5

Rating

8.25

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.9/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Black It Out is a fun roll and write game that is extremely simple yet offers great tactical decisions.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Paper-and-Pencil

Record choices and results directly on a personal sheet.
Dice Rolling

Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Grid Coverage

Place pieces to cover required cells or patterns on a grid.
Read the full game description

Black It Out is a fun roll and write game that is extremely simple yet offers great tactical decisions. Playing in roughly 15 minutes (with no set up time) Black It Out is ideal for families, as a warm up at the start of a games night or as a 'one last game' before the night is over. The aim of the game is to be the person who has 'blacked out' the most of their grid. On a turn you will roll three dice, total two of them which will give you a shape and then draw that shape on to your grid to 'black it out'! -description from designer

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Category

2
Dice Print & Play

Mechanism

3
Dice Rolling Grid Coverage Paper-and-Pencil

Family

2
Crowdfunding: Kickstarter Mechanism: Roll-and-Write

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
1
Best with
1–31
Play time
10–30 min
Age
4+
Complexity
1.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Sebastian Clarke

Publishers

1
(Web published)

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