Der geheimnisvolle Spiegel
Der geheimnisvolle Spiegel Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Materials
- 1 mysterious magic mirror
- 1 magic wand (with battery)
- 4 ladders
- 4 magician tiles
- 46 magic symbol tiles
Preparing to play
Before playing for the first time, remove all the parts carefully from the punched boards.
Place the magic mirror in the centre of the table and lay the magic wand down beside it.
You each take 1 ladder and 1 magician tile of your choice and slide the tile into the bottom of the ladder until it vanishes completely.
Mix the magic symbol tiles well and lay them beside the mirror facing down.
How to play
The last of you to look in the mirror starts the game. If you don't know who it was, the youngest player begins.
When it's your turn, take a magic symbol tile and look at it without letting any of the other players see the symbol. Then place it in front of you facing down. Now take the magic wand and switch it on. Now turn the mirror with the white side facing you. Using the luminous point of the wand paint the symbol displayed on the tile on the back of the mirror.
The other players must pay attention at this point! On the mirror side you can see a luminous point moving and you must watch carefully and guess what is being painted at that moment. As soon as one of you knows what is being painted there, he shouts out what he thinks it is.
Symbol identified
If the guess was right, the player currently painting shows the tile to all the other players as proof, and then slides it into his ladder from the bottom. Then the player who guessed correctly is allowed to take the magic wand and it is his turn to paint a symbol.
Symbol not identified
When you are the player doing the painting, you are allowed to draw a symbol three times in succession. If it is not guessed by then you place the tile back, facing down, together with the other tiles and you take a new one. Then you draw the new symbol and the other players try to guess what it is.
The players may guess any number of times.
Hurrah, at last I'm right at the top of the ladder!
The player who is first to slide the magician tile back out of the top of the ladder wins.
It was all over too fast? Then take all the tiles out of the ladders and play it again!
The game for two cooperative magicians
If two of you are playing you win or lose the game only as a team. Before playing, place one of the remaining two ladders next to the mirror with the rear side facing up. No magician tiles are pushed into this one. It is now the mirror ladder.
If two are playing, as the player doing the painting you are allowed to draw a symbol three times in succession. If it is not guessed by then you do not put the tile back with the other tiles. Instead you take the mirror ladder and slide the tile into it.
Then you take a new tile, draw the new symbol and the other player again tries to guess it.
As soon as the magician tile is pushed out of the top of one of your ladders the game ends and you share the victory.
But if a tile is pushed out of the mirror ladder before than [sic], the game also ends and the mysterious mirror has won.
Variations for older players
Of course you can think up your own words which you want to draw. In that case you write or draw them beforehand on a piece of paper for checking purposes. If the word is not guessed, you insert any tile you like into the bottom of your ladder.
If you want it to be more tricky you can agree that the words have to be compound words, e.g. foot-ball, angel-fish, black-board etc. To present these words they must be painted as two pictures. You must inform the other players that you are starting to paint the second word.
Magic symbol tiles
The source prints no heading above this list; the heading is added for navigation. The list gives each tile's number and its English name.
| No. | Symbol |
|---|---|
| 1 | Glass |
| 2 | Mouth |
| 3 | Umbrella |
| 4 | Lightning |
| 5 | Wheel |
| 6 | Pot |
| 7 | Ship |
| 8 | Sun |
| 9 | Cloud |
| 10 | Heart |
| 11 | Pyramid |
| 12 | Moon |
| 13 |