Phantom Ink (Fr)

Renowned psychics compete to discover a secret object and prove that they can connect to the "world beyond". The first team to discover the secret object wins! To set up Phantom Ink, divide the players so that Team Sun and Team Moon each have one Spirit and up to three Psychics. The psychics in a team share a hand of seven question cards, and the spirits start the game by choosing one of the five objects on a card as their secret object. In turn, the psychics pass two question cards to their spirit, with sample questions including "What colour is it most often?", "Which fictional character has it or uses it?" and "If it were a musical instrument, what would it be?" The spirit discards a question card face up, then returns the question card it is going to answer to its mediums, then slowly writes the answer one letter at a time for all to see. As soon as the mediums think they know what the clue word is, they shout "Silencio", and the spirit stops writing. The other team of psychics may only see the letter "Y", but if you know that the question is "What colour is it?", then you know that the clue must be "yellow". To finish your turn, draw two new question cards. In turn, instead of handing out question cards, you can try to guess the answer - and to do this, you write like the spirits, one letter at a time. If you write an incorrect letter, the spirits will stop you, marking your mistake, your partial guess giving more information to the other team. If you guess the whole word correctly, you win!

Ages 10 and up
4 to 8 players
15 minutes
French

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