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Switch

Be careful, it's going to "Switch" in Quebec!


Number of players
From 2 to 20 players
Age
From 14 years
Duration
Less than 30 minutes
Author(s)
Roberto Fraga, Matthieu D’Epenoux and Odet L’Homer
Illustrator
Mathieu Beaulieu
Editor
Le Scorpion Masqué

Description

SWITCH is the Quebec version of the famous CONTRARIO (Developed by LE SCORPION MASQUE) with "twisted" expressions in the style of Quebec!

For 2 to 20 players, from 14 years old. Liven up your evenings with SWITCH, a surprising quiz!

500 popular expressions and titles of well-known works (songs, movies, TV shows, books, places, etc.) were "wrung out". Each word in the original phrase has been replaced with a synonym, antonym, or related word. Your mission: find the original sentences as quickly as possible!

Fo example... Sun Peace is Star Wars!

Or, Autonomy night is Independence Day!

There are now 2 SWITCH boxes: YELLOW and BLUE, each containing 500 different riddles that work with exactly the same rules.

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How did I create the game?

SWITCH is the Quebec version of the famous CONTRARIO (Developed by LE SCORPION MASQUE) with "twisted" expressions in the style of Quebec!

Voilà comment le jeu CONTRARIO a été crée :

In 1988, with my two friends game creators, Odet L’HOMER and Matthieu D’EPENOUX, we got into the habit of meeting regularly for "Brainstorming communication games" weekends. Matthieu always insisted that we have at least TWO ideas for games per weekend.

CONTRARIO was born thus. At the start we even had a game board with one start and two arrivals. It quickly disappeared, in favor of a game based entirely on cards. We then created several thousand devious phrases and titles. At the time our brains were CONTRARIO formatted and all conversations between friends and family were used. We must of course thank our accomplice, Odet, author of nearly 90% of the hijackings, he remains the soul of the game.

Le jeu a connu un superbe succès dans son écrin de métal et avec sa version CONTRARIO 2, et ses ventes explosent avec sa nouvelle édition en sac, distribuée par Asmodee.