Table feel
Moderate interaction with a good balance between direct and strategic confrontation. Players need to frequently pay attention to others' actions, but cooperation is not a major focus.
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Play It By Ear
Play It By Ear is an audio trivia and challenge game. Components include a set of trivia cards, a game board and tokens and a game cd. During the game, players select one trivia category (pop music, movies, tv, news etc…) from which they must answer a question. Each question is l...
Players
2-12
Time
?-?
Age
16+
Weight
1.6
Rating
5.74
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Moderate interaction with a good balance between direct and strategic confrontation. Players need to frequently pay attention to others' actions, but cooperation is not a major focus.
Teach
2.4
Teaching signal
Replay
4.0
High replayability
Interaction
3.8
Highly interactive
Scaling
4.0
Scales well
Strategy
4.5
Deep strategy
Control
2.8
Luck-sensitive
Replay value
Play It By Ear has a high variability gameboard, offering different experiences each time it is played. The presence of expansions adds new content and gameplay elements, enhancing replay value. The game also provides deep strategic possibilities and allows players to improve their strategies over time. The player interaction score is average. The game scales well with different numbers of players without compromising its appeal or balance. While it may take some time to learn, it offers a good balance between easiness and depth. Overall, Play It By Ear has a solid replayability score of 7.9.
Luck profile
The final luck score for Play it by Ear is 5.67, indicating a moderate influence of luck on the game outcome. Random elements have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome, and players have some ability to mitigate the effects of randomness through strategic decisions and planning. The game relies on a balanced mix of luck and strategy, with neither element dominating the outcome.
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Play It By Ear is an audio trivia and challenge game. Components include a set of trivia cards, a game board and tokens and a game cd. During the game, players select one trivia category (pop music, movies, tv, news etc…) from which they must answer a question. Each question is linked to one of 99 sound clips on the cd. The difficulty of the questions varies from simply identifying where the clip originated, to providing information loosely related to the sound. Some categories are more "activity" based, such as short term memory, where one has to identify something heard in the clip. In the earlier parts of the game, players can choose their own categories while in the latter, the opponents select. In answering questions, players move around a small circular board. The first to make it to the "winner's circle" is the victor.
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Designers
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Barry Levine
Publishers
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Rykodisc
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