Repos Production Concept

You don’t need to talk to communicate.Make people guess hundreds of objects, characters, and titles by combining universal icons. What icons would you use to signify brainwashing, tea, the Great Sphinx of Giza, 'blind as a bat,' or Beyoncé? How many ways can you interpret a red-roofed house, a Cartesian plane, a blue-irised eye, or a computer motherboard? There are no wrong ways to use the icons, pawns, and cubes of Concept, no time limits, a simple point system, a few essential rules. Instead, you’re encouraged to play around with Concept, be inventive and, above all, make meaning in unique and original ways. ConceptYou’re sitting at home on a casual weekend afternoon, watching movies with your friends and your dog. Suddenly, you see a massive, living, breathing, real dinosaur stroll right past the window. Naturally, you rush over to watch the dinosaur and try to get your friends to come witness it as well. But for some horrible and unfair reason, your ability to speak is suddenly gone. You must explain the dinosaur without using words. Somehow you manage to convey that there’s something like the dog, but not like the dog, and it's huge and green and outside. Your friends abruptly grasp what’s going on and join you in watching the dinosaur walk towards the horizon, sharing with you this wonderful, uncanny moment. This is basically what it's like to play Concept. You draw a card, which gives nine words or phrases for you to pick from. The suggestions are divided into “easy,” “hard,” and “challenging,” and if your group wants, you can give players additional points for guessing more difficult ideas. Start by placing the main concept pawn on an icon that indicates the core of what the concept is. Some concepts involve more than one line of connected ideas. In that case, sub-concept pawns and cubes of the matching colour can be used to indicate a secondary descriptive idea. For even more complex ideas, or if players are struggling to guess the word or phrase, you may want to use multiple sub-concepts.