10.0/10
Bring Your Own Book is a perfect fit for my friend group and is my favorite feel good social game for getting to know people.
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3-8
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Bring Your Own Book
Publisher: Noris Spiele
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Card sleeves in this game
100 cards of 57.5mm width and 89.0mm of height
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Description
Your old favorite book is now your new favorite game! In Bring Your Own Book, players take turns drawing prompts from the deck, then race to find the best phrase in their own book that satisfies the prompt. What's the tastiest “name for a candy bar” in that history textbook you're reading for school? How quickly can you find “lyrics from a country western song” in your dog-training guide? What kind of “advice for graduating seniors” will appear in your anthology of limericks? In more detail, everyone has their own book and sits in a circle. The cards are placed face down, and the starting player has a one-minute timer. The starting player takes the top card off the deck, picks a prompt, and reads it aloud. Everyone except the Picker searches their book for text to match the prompt, sequential text of any length: a single word, half of a sentence, a whole sentence, multiple sentences, etc. The first Seeker to find matching text announces "I've got it" and starts the timer. When the timer runs out (or every Seeker announces "I've got it"), each Seeker reads what they've found. Seekers who didn't find text in time open to a random page and read a random sentence from it. The Picker chooses their favorite submission and awards the card to that Reader. After each round, the person to the left of the last Picker starts the next round. Once any player holds three cards, everyone passes their book to the player on their left. This happens any time a player reaches three cards during the game. Thus, it can happen as many times as there are players. The game proceeds until one player has collected the required number of cards and wins: with 5-7 players the first to 4 cards win; with 3-4 players the first to 5 cards win.
Additional information
| Mechanics: | Hand Management Simultaneous Action Selection |
| Categories: | Card Games Humor Party Game |
| Alternative names: | Bring Your Own Book みんなで本をもちよって |
| BARCODE: | 4000826016618 |
| In 1 wishlist This was seen 4499 times | |
Description
Your old favorite book is now your new favorite game! In Bring Your Own Book, players take turns drawing prompts from the deck, then race to find the best phrase in their own book that satisfies the prompt. What's the tastiest “name for a candy bar” in that history textbook you're reading for school? How quickly can you find “lyrics from a country western song” in your dog-training guide? What kind of “advice for graduating seniors” will appear in your anthology of limericks? In more detail, everyone has their own book and sits in a circle. The cards are placed face down, and the starting player has a one-minute timer. The starting player takes the top card off the deck, picks a prompt, and reads it aloud. Everyone except the Picker searches their book for text to match the prompt, sequential text of any length: a single word, half of a sentence, a whole sentence, multiple sentences, etc. The first Seeker to find matching text announces "I've got it" and starts the timer. When the timer runs out (or every Seeker announces "I've got it"), each Seeker reads what they've found. Seekers who didn't find text in time open to a random page and read a random sentence from it. The Picker chooses their favorite submission and awards the card to that Reader. After each round, the person to the left of the last Picker starts the next round. Once any player holds three cards, everyone passes their book to the player on their left. This happens any time a player reaches three cards during the game. Thus, it can happen as many times as there are players. The game proceeds until one player has collected the required number of cards and wins: with 5-7 players the first to 4 cards win; with 3-4 players the first to 5 cards win.
Card sleeves in this game
100 cards of 57.5mm width and 89.0mm of height
2x
(50 Pcs)
2x
(50 Pcs)
1x
(100 Pcs)
1x
(100 Pcs)
1x
(100 Pcs)
1x
(110 Pcs)
2x
(55 Pcs)
2x
(75 Pcs)
2x
(50 Pcs)
2x
(75 Pcs)
1x
(100 Pcs)
Additional information
| Mechanics: | Hand Management Simultaneous Action Selection |
| Categories: | Card Games Humor Party Game |
| Alternative names: | Bring Your Own Book みんなで本をもちよって |
| BARCODE: | 4000826016618 |
| In 1 wishlist This was seen 4499 times | |
What players say
How many players it plays best with · 9 votes on BoardGameGeek
- 1 0 0 say it plays best, 1 recommend it, 5 do not recommend it
- 2 1 1 say it plays best, 2 recommend it, 5 do not recommend it
- 3 1 1 say it plays best, 5 recommend it, 3 do not recommend it
- 4 2 2 say it plays best, 6 recommend it, 0 do not recommend it
- 5 7 7 say it plays best, 0 recommend it, 0 do not recommend it
- 6 6 6 say it plays best, 1 recommend it, 0 do not recommend it
- 7 0 0 say it plays best, 5 recommend it, 1 do not recommend it
- 8 0 0 say it plays best, 4 recommend it, 2 do not recommend it
- 8+ 0 0 say it plays best, 2 recommend it, 3 do not recommend it
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10.0/10
It's like apples to apples, but more hilarious and scales better to huge group sizes. If you and your friends like reading & acting, you'll love this game.
10.0/10
As a bookworm who also loves board game night, this is a perfect party game. We were cracking up at "a Hitchcock movie title" taken from a bodybuilding book, and "moment in a romance novel when the relationship begins to sour" taken from a cookbook!
10.0/10
I think this nails the apples-to-apples style gameplay. Replayablility is super high because the books will be different every time. The prompts are all incredibly creative and really push your imagination. The best part of being judge is watching people exclaim when they've found the perfect answer. Unlike apples-to-apples, there never really seemed a "dead hand" or very many throw-away answers. Heads and shoulders above the rest.
9.0/10
A novel (pun intended) take on the Apples to Apples gameplay formula, allowing for lots more personal creativity, and having everyone generate their own response helps each person to feel a bit of ownership over their responses, which increases engagement considerably. All while retaining the central, hilarious core of nonsensical and/or clever responses to simple prompts. I run with a couple small house rules, but regardless, it's a spectacular party game!
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CAUTION! Not suitable for children under 3 years of age. It contains small parts which could be swallowed or inhaled.