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You love board games. More specifically, you love game night. You love gathering around a table with your friends–phones put away, snacks aplenty–with a fantastic game that everyone can enjoy. You love competition, cooperation, and creativity.
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When board gaming turns from an “activity” to a “hobby” for you, you’ll suddenly become interested in all of the non-game ways you can improve your game nights.
Once you’ve played on a 5mm-thick neoprene mat, you’ll never want to go back.
And, the first time you try to carry more than a couple games to game night in a grocery store bag, you’re going to want a purpose-built, padded bag.
For your next game night.
FIGURE OUT THOSE RINGS! – Use logic and deduction to understand the rules of the mysterious Venn Diagram. It’s a Thing-slinging, string-ringing, rule-guessing race!
HOW TO PLAY – The “Knower” sets up the Venn diagram with secret rules. All other players are “Finders.” On a turn, play a card. If it’s right, play again. If not, draw. First to play all cards wins!
PAY ATTENTION DURING YOUR OPPONENTS’ TURNS – Tons of information can be garnered when your opponents are placing their object cards. Try and learn as much as you can before your turn begins!
THINK OUTSIDE THE (VENN-DIAGRAM-SHAPED) BOX – Don’t forget that the object cards can be placed outside the Venn Diagram! Playing there or in the triple overlap can be the most illuminating turns
IF YOU’RE LOST, FOCUS ON ONE CATEGORY – Trying to tackle too many things can be confusing. Can you figure something out about the spelling? How about the phsyical properties? Start there!
Customers say
Customers find the board game fun, with one describing it as a great party game. The game’s ease of play receives mixed feedback, with several customers finding it easy to learn, while one notes that the blue ring rules are impossible to guess.
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Wundt –
A delightfully frustrating game.
This game involves a “Knower” having three rules and three overlapping rings that form a Venn diagram. Each ring represents one of the rules. Players play “Thing” cards into the rings trying to figure out the rules, with some things fitting into 1, 2 or all three rings/rules… or none of them. If the rules are “Has a double vowel”, “Is a living thing”, and “Is something you find in a school” the card “Poodle” would fit int the first two and thus go into the join between the rings for the first two rules.Every time I have played this it is accompanied by a complaining, frustration, insults, and swearing (a lot of swearing)… and everyone is laughing and having a good time. Each round ends with an animated discussion about what the rules were and why certain things did or didn’t get put into the different rules.I’ve played with hardcore gamers and casual players who will only play party games, and everyone enjoys the game. Likely not a great game for younger kids as the rules are sometimes complex (though I could see that you could have young kids participate by just letting them randomly play cards). It can be played friendly – where everyone discusses their guesses – or competitively – where there is no discussion.It is great game to just have in your bag for when you need something fun, easy to teach, and quick to play.
Jajamoon –
Love it so fun
Love the game
Crazy Melvin –
A fun game to learn how people think
Played quite a few times with many different types of people (some coworkers, friends, family, etc.) and the funniest thing I find about this game is seeing how other people think. Even if you’ve played it enough to have some of the rules come up again, the different combinations and words/images on the guessing cards adds a lot of replayability.It is a bit difficult getting started with new players as they need more time to grasp the concept and “what can be a rule” or “what are the rules like”. I was shown the game my first time and thus didn’t read through the rule / instruction book so missed the part about playing with less circles in the first game. If I were to play through / introduce the game in the future, I’d start off with just one circle and a rule and guide people to guess the rule, then add a new circle and rule with the previous one and walk them through the new game until they understood. Then add the third circle and repeat.If you’re planning on playing this with kids, I wouldn’t recommend playing with anyone less than 12 or 13-ish (somewhere in the American middle school / grade 7+ age range). You don’t need a firm grasp on all English or concepts, to be successful or have fun, but the complexities of three rules of various difficulty can make the game frustrating for some.
George & Julie –
Fun party game that’s going to be a hit or a miss depending on the group.
A friend actually brought this to game night the same day that I ordered my own copy, so I got to play it before receiving my own copy. This is one of those party/social games that people are either going to love or hate. My group likes it (and we usually play heavier strategy games, not party games).In Things in Rings players are trying to assign item cards to the circles in a Venn diagram. One player is the “judge” and knows what the rules are for each of the three rings. When a player plays a card (with a cartoon picture of a “thing” on it) into one of the rings the judge will decide if it was placed in the correct location – either meeting one ring’s condition, two conditions, all three conditions, or none. If the card was placed in the correct spot in the Venn diagram made by the rings the player goes again. If not, the judge moves the card to the right spot and the player draws a new card and then it’s the next player’s turn. The goal is to be the first player to empty their hand by figuring out the conditions of each ring in the Venn diagram.Here are a few features of the game, you can decide for yourself if they are pros or cons.- Games play pretty quick but can last quite a while on occasion (usually about 10-15 minutes per game, but sometimes over a half hour). It’s never boring though.- Some conditions can be very subjective. So depending on how the judge wants to interpret the conditions, they can sometimes be difficult to deduce. E.g. one condition is “Things that Make You Happy”, which could be interpreted to just generally happy things, or things that specifically make the judge happy. This can be fun socially, but if you’re not in tune with the judge it can also make for some conflict or at least discussion (which may be wanted for a more social game).- The game can be frustrating at times and you can feel like you’re not really engaged if you have absolutely no clue what the conditions are. You can feel like you’re just throwing cards out at random and hoping you get a lucky guess. This can depend greatly on the group you’re playing with though.- Though this is a social party game it also involves quite a bit of deduction and sometimes not strictly logical deduction. So if you’re looking for a game that is just silly, social fun, like Werewolf or Goodcritters, this isn’t that. But it’s also not something like Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective or Loot of Lima either. It’s somewhere more along the lines of Mysterium, where there is a lot more to the deduction that’s dependent on the personalities of the other players.- This also isn’t a NSFW style party game. It’s good for the family. And unlike some other games, where a dirty mind can make even a clean game NSFW (like Scattergories), there’s not really any room for that type of ‘adult’ fun. That’s fine for my group, but I know some people expect any party game to have a NSFW version. Maybe this will, too, someday, but it’ll have to have new cards and be it’s own edition. This version of the game is completely PG rated.Anyway, I quite enjoyed my play of the game and look forward to getting it to the table more often. It’s a great filler or wind-down game at the end of game night.
Amazon Customer –
Fun
This is a really fun game with simple rules that are easy to learn but quite a bit of challenge in actual play. I would love to see an expansion pack!
T. N. –
A bit ambiguous for a deduction game.
The game is pretty fun. However the red and blue ring rules are basically impossible to guess. You just kind of end up putting cards randomly a lot of the time. I am also worried that the number of rules cards might be a limiting factor on how many times you can play the game. Like if you have seen every rule, then you can look at the cards that have been played and figure out which known rule is being used this game.It is good for larger groups. It is easy for any number of players to join and a game doesn’t take very long. I was able to play with my 8 and 10 year old nieces just fine.
Amazon Customer –
Fun and adaptable
We’ve only played a few times so far, but we really like it. There are lots of options to make it easier or more challenging, so it will work for lots of different ages and preferences. Some of them really make you stop and think.
Daniel –
Great party game
Nice simple game
Pierre Landry –
Such a fun game that makes you think.