Wavelength

• Designer: Wolfgang Warsch, Alex Hague, and Justin Vickers
• Publisher: Palm Court
• Players: 2-12
• Age: 14+
• Time: 30-45 minutes
• Times played: 9, with review copy provided by Palm Court

Trippy.

Wavelength is a party game with an original concept, which is unusual as most party games are variations on one of a few different ideas (which is not to say they have to be original to be good, as an idea can be done well or poorly).

Wavelength is based on spectra. Each round one player (the “psychic,” according to the rules) draws a card which offers a choice between two spectra, e.g. “bad pizza topping” to “good pizza topping” or “dystopia” to “utopia.” They choose one and then turn to the nifty plastic device which is the heart of the game. This device has a wheel which they spin and a window which they then open. Somewhere in the window there will be a target area – a silver 4-point sliver surrounded by 3-point and 2-point regions. They then close the window, place the device and the card in the handy slots provided in the box insert, and give a clue. Continue reading →