Four hidden pegs and ten rows to break them, each answered with exact hits and near misses. Not one word in the whole game. 1 to 8 people, about 15 minutes.
There is nothing to read and nothing to translate, so it plays exactly the same for everybody at the table. That is not an accessibility footnote — it is the reason this is on the shelf at all.
Every peg is a shape as well as a colour, so it works for the one person in twelve who does not see all six the same way, and just as well for somebody who has been in the country a week.
A round
Set the codePlay a rowRead the answerTen of them
On the sheet
+2Everyone who breaks it — racing, however many rows it took
+1Whoever needed the fewest — and there was somebody to beat
+2Everyone at the table — ten rows between you, and you broke it
+1All of them again — and you did it inside five
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