The Games Report
Peter Sarrett
21 August 2002
USA

Squint: This new party game from the publishers of Apples to Apples has promise. It's Pictionary, but instead of drawing you have to assemble your picture from a library of a few dozen square doodle-like cards. The cards all have simple images-- lines, squares, arcs, crosses, squiggles-- which can be combined, overlapped, and moved around to get your point across. My preferred clue-giving scoring system is used here-- everyone can guess, and both the successful guesser and giver score points. One player remarked on the games anthropological subtext, noticing how we developed a vocabulary of images as the game progressed (these three cards together = human, these four = animal, etc). The biggest problem is finding the right cards for what you're trying to assemble-- with over 70 of 'em, there are a lot of images to scan. I'm sure we'll play again soon.

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