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The game plays over two phases:

1. Choosing Clues: individual phase.
2. Resolution: team phase.

1. Choosing Clues

Simultaneously, all players picks up their Clover board and secretly looks at the 8 Keywords that are on the outside edges of their cards. Notice there are 2 Keywords that form a Pair below each Clue Zone on your Clover board. There are 4 Pairs on your Clover board.

For each of your 4 Pairs, secretly think of a Clue that ties their 2 Keywords together. Clues must be a single word (compound words are allowed) and can be a common noun, proper noun, acronym, number or onomatopoeia. Examples: Rabbit, Clooney, FBI, 13 and Bzzzz are therefore valid Clues. Write this word on the corresponding Clue Zone of your Clover board.

Invalid Clues

• Neither one of your Keywords or its translation into another language.

Example: Amour cannot be used to connect “Love” and “France”.

• A word in the same family as a Keyword.

Example: Prince cannot be used to suggest a Pair with “Princess” and “Brother”.

• Made-up words.

Example: Cuppajo cannot be used to suggest a Pair with “Mug” and “Morning”.

Examples

• For the Pair “House” and “Firefighter”,you could write “Station” (the fire department’s house) in the corresponding Clue Zone.
• For the Pair “Sheep” and “Clothing”,you could write “Wool” (sheep’s wool is used to make clothes) in the corresponding Clue Zone.

ADVICE: Certain connections may seem difficult, but don’t worry. Simply write the first word that pops into your head. Other players might surprise you with their guesses!

2. Resolution

An extra card is now added.

During this phase, choose the first player to be the Spectator while all other players look at their Clover board. The Spectator cannot communicate in any way during this phase. Every player will be the Spectator one time during each game. The Spectator places their Clover board and 5 Keyword cards face up in the middle of the table. Using the Clues, the other players work together to figure out the Spectator’s Pairs and put the cards back in the correct spaces on the Clover board. If there is a disagreement on where cards should go, the player sitting to the left of the Spectator makes the final decision.

ADVICE: During this phase, feel free to place the Keyword cards on the Clover board to help visualize possible combinations and explain your reasoning to help your team reach a decision.

When players agree on the placement of cards on the Clover board, the Spectator verifies the Keywords.

Verification

First attempt

Perfect All Pairs are placed on the Clover board correctly: gain 1 point per card and an extra 2 points for having found all the Keywords on the first try! (total 6 points).

Error At least one Pair is placed on the Clover board incorrectly: the Spectator removes the incorrect card(s) without saying anything and puts them in the middle of the table. The other players have a second and final attempt.