Watch “The Gamer Side review: Similo,” a board game review for Similo from Phase Shift Games on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Phase Shift Games on YouTube:
Welcome back to The Gamer Side! In this episode I review Similo.
My ratings:
10-point rating: 7/10
Game setup fiddly-factor: None (elegant!)
Gameplay fiddly-factor: None (elegant!)
The Gamer Side is a series where I take a break from the publishing nonsense and shed some light on the everyday board game-loving gamer inside! The Gamer Side is brought to you by Phase Shift Games. Explore new dimensions in tabletop gaming at: https://www.PhaseShiftGames.com
2019·Martino Chiacchiera, Hjalmar Hach, Pierluca Zizzi
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Mainly reviews and unboxings. Similo is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 28 reviews, 24 how-to-play guides, 10 recorded sessions, 28 unboxings, and 5 other videos.
2 - 8 players
10 - 15 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes
About Similo, from BoardGameGeek:
Similo is a co-operative deduction game, and each version of the game - e.g., Fables, History, Myths - comes with a deck of thirty cards, beautifully illustrated by Naïade, showing the portrait and the name of a series of characters with a common theme.
Your goal is to make the other players guess one secret character (out of the twelve characters on display in the middle of the table) by playing other character cards from your hand as clues, stating whether they are similar to or different from the secret character. After each turn, the other players must remove one or more characters from the table until only the right one remains and you win - or it is removed and you lose!
You can play with one of the Similo sets on its own, using the cards from, say, Fables both for the characters being laid out and for the clues being given to the guessers, or you can use the cards from one set for the twelve characters on display and the cards from another set as the clues. The game is far trickier this way!