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YŌKAI

GAMEWRIGHT: $10

AGE RANGE: 8+

PLAY TIME: 20 MIN.

PLAYERS: 2–4

Zero-communication games are good opportunities for starting fights. When players need to work together without speaking or otherwise signaling their knowledge or intent, it rarely ends well: How did you miss that?!

People obviously love the challenge, though, which is what made The Mind a success. YŌkai is a kind of Concentration-style team game with limited communication. The game is played with a set of 16 square cards, shuffled and

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