Every day, one walks through life, and is viewed by the public at every turn. Whether you go to work, buy a sandwich at the bakery or drink a beer with friends, you will be taken continuously under the microscope. Gradually we develop a self-image and write to us qualities like efficiency, responsibility, or insight.

But to make that really speak to us or we are the only one? Share our best friends or work colleagues also believe this or they could actually see us as lazy or irresponsible? Devoted to such issues Uwe Rosenberg. As they say in a proverb goes: "Self-knowledge is the first step to recovery." Only he who knows himself well, can learn from his behavior!

In the small, square box contains 28 psychometer cards (each with 20 properties), 5 sets of voting cards with 6 cards, 2 evaluation cards, 30 chips and a psycho-illustrated game manual.

After each player has received a set of voting cards of one color and the evaluation map is selected according to the number of players, the game can begin. The first player takes three cards from the deck psychometer, lays the first card in the middle of the table and the other two middle on the right and left of the map. Two arrows show here the player can choose which of these two properties.

Now, all players must decide to what extent this property applies to the first player, who also rated themselves, and put one of their voting cards face down. This means a 0, the property did not apply and the highest card (at the 5-game 5) that it is extremely pronounced. Intermediate values ​​provide a much more accurate.

After everyone has voted, the cards are revealed and added the scores. According to the evaluation table then Psycho chips are distributed. Thereby to avoid the "tendency toward the center," a more "courageous" tuning behavior is rewarded. If a player has a certain number of chips received psycho, he wins the game.

Psychometer takes less than 5 people to play well, but are used in only 3 players also correspondingly less voting cards so that only a very rough gradation of properties is possible and you usually "right" types. Well like I have that in the five-player variant, nor a extra scoring table was settled for rounds among good friends. This rating is somewhat stringent and difficult the victory condition.

Overall, the scoring works pretty well. Sometimes, however, there is inconsistency and frustration. One possibility would be to distribute the points according to the average of the responses. So those are rewarded who have rated the person on the "most relevant" and not those who "courageously" typed. If you want to play with more than 5 people, you can also tinker voting cards and even plays on the average rule. When it comes psychometer clearly on the fun, so do not take the ranking too seriously.

Seeks to estimate an entertaining game wants to know his own personality a little closer and has such a game yet, then you've met with psychometer a good choice. The rules are very simple and the game time is about 20 - 30 minutes rather short. The cards could well be more stable and also the psycho-chips with 5 players are a bit tight, but the low price makes this excuse. The terms are sometimes very funny and quirky, which will particularly appeal to young adults.

Name: psychometer
Year: 2010
Players: 3-5
Age: 16 years
Duration: 30 min
Author (s): Uwe Rosenberg
Publisher: Verlag Heidelberg Games

Tags: Heidelberger game publisher , game cards