Musta kuula társasjáték

Angol leírás

"He who thinks that games are just games and work is just work, has not understood much about either." -Heinrich Heine

Musta kuula ("Black ball") is a Boggle-like word game, originally designed as an aid for rehabilitation and to fight against dementia. The game consists of three wooden boxes, each with a letter grid of 6x6 recesses in the bottom and a transparent plastic cover. Inside the boxes are nine steel balls, one of which is black. Gameplay is simple; shake the box, let the balls find their places in the recesses and from those letters you then have to find as many words as possible, the only limit being usual word game rules and that the black ball letter has to be included in every word. To beat the game, players together have to achieve a "good" result (15 words or more) but you can also try for "excellent" (30 words) or even "glorious" (50 or more, with 8- and 9-letter words included). The three boxes represent three levels of difficulty in the mix of the available letters; Apprentice, Journeyman and Master.

The original game is meant to be played as a co-op with no clear time limit, with each player finding a word and passing the game box to the next player until the players decide that no more words can be found, but there are also competitive variants and others using a bag of 27 wooden Scrabble-like letter tiles, supplied as a separate add-on.