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2025 Ranked #607

Take Time

A limited-communication cooperative puzzle where every silent card placement tests how well the team can think as one.

Family Games Cooperative Game Communication Limits Deduction Puzzle

Players

2-4

Play time

30 min

Age

10+

Complexity

1.78/5

Rating

7.73

Easier to teach Highly interactive Light strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 4.5/5

Easier to teach

Replay value 4.4/5

High replayability

Interaction 4.2/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 2.8/5

Light strategy

Player control 3.8/5

More strategic control

Setup time About 3 min
Teach time About 8 min
Table footprint Compact
Campaign commitment About 40 sessions
Recommended edition Take Time – English edition (2025)
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How it plays

How does it play?

Cooperate under strict communication limits to place numbered cards around a clock and solve 40 increasingly surprising challenges.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

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Study the current Clock together, discuss a plan, then pick up your hands and fall silent. Players take turns placing all twelve numbered cards face down around the dial, trying to satisfy the Clock’s ordering and total requirements without revealing what they hold. When the cards turn over, every segment must contain a card and obey its rule. Ten chapters introduce 40 evolving tests, turning a simple shared number puzzle into a poetic campaign of deduction, trust, and second attempts.

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Editions

Language and publisher variants currently recorded in the catalog.

Edition Year Language Publisher / Region
Síla času – Czech/Slovak edition (2025) 2025 Czech ADC Blackfire Entertainment, Libellud
Take Time – Dutch/French edition (2025) 2025 Dutch Libellud
Take Time – English edition (2025) 2025 English Libellud / UK
Take Time – French/English edition (2025) 2025 English Libellud
Take Time – French edition (2025) 2025 French Libellud
Take Time – German edition (2025) 2025 German Libellud
Időhurok – Hungarian edition (2025) 2025 Hungarian Gémklub
Take Time – Italian edition (2025) 2025 Italian Libellud

Game and edition data

All specifications (28)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Play time
30 min
Age
10+
Complexity
1.8/5
App
None app Source
Player elimination
No Source
Downtime
Low Source

Practicalities

Setup time
About 3 min Source
Teach time
About 8 min Source
Teardown time
About 3 min Source
Table footprint
Compact Source

Campaign and continuity

Campaign commitment
About 40 sessions Source
Group continuity
Flexible Source
Resettable
Fully Resettable Source
Save system
Progress through the 40 Clocks is tracked by keeping completed challenges in their chapter sleeves. Source
Scenarios
40.0000 scenarios Source
Consumable components
No consumable components; every challenge can be replayed. Source

Edition and product

Optional extras
No app is required. The Rebirth material extends the challenge sequence after the main chapters. Source
Recommended edition
Take Time – English edition (2025) Source
Language
English
Region
UK
Availability
Current
Edition type
Standard Source
Current edition
Yes Source
Box weight
1000 g Source
Box dimensions
20.2 × 20.0 × 6.2 cm Source
Consumable components
None. Source
Compatibility
Current Libellud English Retail Edition With All 40 Base Game Clocks. Source
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Alexi Piovesan Julien Prothière

Artists

1
Maud Chalmel

Publishers

6
Libellud ADC Blackfire Entertainment asmodee BoardM Factory CMON Global Limited Galápagos Jogos

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