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Olympikos

Discover Olympic and Paralympic sports through an image association game. Imagination, deduction and risk-taking are the three ingredients to shine.

2–6 players
Ages 8+
20 min
Difficulty: easy

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Game profile

What kind of game is it?

How much of each ingredient, from 1 to 5.

Luck3/5
Logic2/5
Teamwork1/5
Strategy2/5
Speed5/5
Table talk2/5

Complexity

Very easy

Best with

4–6 players

For

Families
Friends
Sports clubs

Mechanics

Image association
Real time
Push your luck

5 sports, 3 medals

Each round, five sports are revealed. The Coach makes the others guess three: one for bronze, one for silver, one for gold.

Picture clues

A card placed upright is a great clue; sideways, an average one. The more precious the medal, the fewer clues to choose from.

Fastest wins

Athletes stack their Delegation cards. The first to get it right takes the medal.

Olympikos

How to play

Setup
Five rings in a row with a sport under each, the bronze, silver and gold medals, and every player with a delegation: France, Argentina, USA, Kenya, Australia or China.
The Coach chooses
The Coach draws six clues and randomly picks a card from their delegation: the ring color shows which sport to make the others guess. One clue goes face down under each medal, upright or sideways.
Ready, set, vote!
The Coach flips the three clues. Each Athlete places a Delegation card on each medal, on top of the last one. Once placed, a card can’t move.
Medal ceremony
Each stack is flipped: the first card is the Coach’s and gives the answer. The first Athlete who got it right scores 2, 3 or 4 points; the next ones score 1.
Coach’s points
If everyone got it, the Coach scores the medal’s points; if only some did, 1 point. If no one guessed any sport all round, the Coach loses 3.
End of the game
Everyone is Coach once. The player with the most points is the new Olympic champion.

The rules that make it special

Anti-doping control

From round two, the leading Athlete places one of their spare cards in front of the control: the sport they think wasn’t chosen. If they’re wrong, they lose 3 points.

Two players, against the clock

In co-op mode, a rival delegation lands on every medal every 10 seconds. Score together and check the international medal table: 36 points is a world record.

The Clue cards

71 objects to guess from

A whistle, a sail, a banana… The Coach picks the one that brings the sport to mind and stands it upright if it is a very good clue.

Try it here

Play a round as an Athlete

The website is the Coach: it has already picked three of the five sports and left a clue on each medal. Once you start, every 10 seconds a rival delegation plays a card on each medal, just like the two-player variant. The first to get it right takes the medal.