Alias (board game)
Alias is a Finnish company match. In this game it comes to explaining concepts, it is suitable for both children and adults. The original board game was developed by Mikko Koivusalo and published in early 1990 by Tactic. Meanwhile, there are several variations, also in English and Swedish translation was published. The game mechanism has strong similarities to taboo.
Game material
Regulate
Man playing with at least two teams. The minimum number of players is four, a limit does not exist. In alias must be paraphrased words, make statements, without mentioning the word searched. These words are for example Verbs, adjectives, nouns, names of famous people, colors, etc. The words on the cards are not sorted according to word classes. It is not least about luck, if a team gets easy or difficult words. The word must be explained by means of synonyms, opposites and other circumlocutions, so that the or guess the partners as many words as possible during the current hourglass. Only the exact base form of a word is acceptable as a solution. When you board the team moves forward according to the number of correct answers. Who comes first over the finish line is the winner.
Game play
Alias as a means of language learning
To explain words, playful verbal skills are expanded. The activation of the thinking process is a key factor in the efficient learning. The players are quick-witted and expand vocabulary and phraseology. It may - depending on the agreement - be allowed to use for the explanation of a word, a foreign-language counterpart. This also foreign language skills could be trained alongside native speakers. A game of words explaining thus may also be useful for language learning, alias could be playing as a translation game. The player can, for example, translate the Finnish word " ilmapallo " with " balloon ".
Finnish variants
In the Finnish space many different variants are common.
- "New Alias" is a modernized edition. The rules are the same as for traditional aliases, but the playing fields are after 1 things 2 People and Professions, 3 adjectives, verbs and 4 categorized.
- "Special alias " is included in the New Alias , pictured on the back of the New Alias game board. The pitches are categorized by 1 Our Environment, Sport 2, 3 Entertainment and Culture, 4th idioms and phrases.
- "Music Alias" is a version that handles musical themes. The explanations are sung. Supplied with a small plastic piano.
- "Junior Alias" is a version that is suitable for children. In addition to the words there are also pictures.
- "Party Alias" is a version in which also explains the words, but if the character comes to stand on a " party box ", for example, the player must tell funny stories, describe celebrities or explain the words in an unusual position, for example, hopping. In Party Alias , players must declare the words in different moods, for example, hysterical, angry, scared or drunk.
- "Families alias " is not played in teams, but each player moves his own character. Children and adults have their own cards for word definitions.
- " Moomin Alias" contains words and pictures from the Moomin theme.
- "High School Musical Party alias ": Disney's musical film High School Musical is the subject of this variant. The player must guess which character in the movie says the other player eg.
- "Alias DVD", a DVD version with the Finnish Moderator Marco Bjurström.
- " Southern Pohjalaanen alias " the words and phrases are on südösterbottnischem dialect.