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2019 Ranked #20,505

Off Topic

This timed word game has players answer prompts with a rolled starting letter and score the most points after five rounds. Only unique answers score, so quick thinking must avoid the obvious responses likely to be shared.

Card Game Party Game Action Timer Matching

Players

2-10

Play time

30-90 min

Age

17+

Complexity

1/5

Rating

5.84

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

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?

Play this Quick-witted game with friends for a good laugh. Draw a card to set the topics, and roll the die to set the letter that your responses must begin with.

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Play this Quick-witted game with friends for a good laugh. Draw a card to set the topics, and roll the die to set the letter that your responses must begin with. As you race against time, your answers will get a little outrageous and a little OFF TOPIC! —description from the back of the box Players receive a personal whiteboard and whiteboard marker, and one player reveals a card with multiple prompts; one for each pair of lines on the whiteboard. Then the die is rolled to determine what letter every answer must start with. Once set, the timer is flipped and players must attempt to answer as many of the prompts as they can before time runs out. After this phase, players will go through the prompts to see what everyone else wrote. Be careful, though, as if multiple people come up with the same answer, NO ONE gets points! For every unique answer to the prompt you have written down (up to two) you gain a point. Once the comparing and point-scoring is done, players erase their board and start a new round. After 5 rounds, the player with the most points is the winner. —user summary

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Play and group

Players
2–10
Best with
2
Play time
30–90 min
Age
17+
Complexity
1.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Luffy

Artists

1
Anthony Moulins

Publishers

2
Sit Down! Off-Topic Games

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