Do you want to speak like a spy and be a part of the group? Learn interjections and questions. Simple 'chto?' will make you sound more authentic than all the 'zdravstvuite's' you spent so much time learning. Here are some common phrases you can use.
FIY: I am giving you basic phrases to express your emotions during the game. 1. You can use those phrases for other occasions. 2. If you have wast knowledge of Russian you can use your own phrases. The goal is to look like you speak Russian while playing the game .
Core words:
1. It is [eto] - Это
2. So [tak] - Так
3. Here [toot] - Тут
4. What? [chto] - Что?
5. And [ee] - и
6. Or [ee-lee] - или
7. Here is [vot] - Вот
8. Who? [k-toe] - Кто?
Mandatory words:
I think that....
Я думаю что - Ya du-ma- you chto...
I don’t think that....
Я не думаю что - Ya ne du-ma-you chto....
Зелёный/ная - ze-le-nii/naya - green
Желтый/тая - jel-tii/taya-yellow
Синий/няя - see-nii/nyaya-blue
Красный/ная - kras-nii/naya-red
here is more/less
toot boli-ssheh/myeni-ssheh
тут больше/меньше
Зелёного - ze-len-ogo - green
Желтого - jel-togo - yellow
Синего - see-nego - blue
Красного - kras-nogo -red
PS: these colors are in is genitive case, so just learn them how they are. I will explain it later. If you are curious you can read about genitive case here.
This part it to give you heads-up on what you will hear me saying. It is not advance Russian. We just love to say, "hmm, well, so, right, I see, ohh" that's why our sentences are so long.
It also include phrases you can say, while playing the game, to get more points.
Intro
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Let's play! [davai-te ee-gra-tea] Давайте играть!
Cards [kar-ti] Карты.
Who is first? [k-toe per-vi-ii] Кто первый? - (who goes first?)
Well, I will go first [ ya tog-da per-voi bu-du] Я тогда первой буду
Take this card.
[t-ya-ni etu kartu] - Тяни эту/ту карту.
What is it?
[chto eto] - Что это?
Blue card/errow.
[see-nya-ya kar-ta/strel-ka] Синяя карта / стрелка
When you take a card.
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Take the card.
[t-ya-ni kartu] - Тяни карту.
What is it?
[chto eto] - Что это?
Strange design, harts, flowers, letters, circles, question marks.
[ stranni-ii di-zai-n, serd-tsa, ts-ve-ti, book-vi, croo-gi, zna-key voprosa] - Странный дизайн, сердца, цветы, буквы, круги, знаки вопроса.
What do you think?
[chto ti dooma-yesh] - Что ты думаешь?
I think, that there is more blue/red/yellow/green.
[ya duma-you chto toot boli-sheh sinego/ krasnogo/jeltogo/zelenogo]
Я думаю что тут больше синего/красного/желтого/зеленого.
I think, that there is less blue/red/yellow/green.
[ya duma-you chto toot men-sheh sinego/ krasnogo/jeltogo/zelenogo]
Я думаю что тут меньше синего/красного/желтого/зеленого.
I think that it is not correct / not right.
[ya doo-ma-you chto eto ne ver-no/ne pra-vil-no]
Я думаю что это не верно /не правильно.
Good, let’s see.
[horosho, smot-rim]
Хорошо, смотрим.
looking at the back of the card
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13 процентов 5 процентов 20 процентов
Da. It is wrong.
[net eto ne pravil-no]
Нет это не правильно
I was right.
[ya bil prav]
[ya bila prava]
Я была права.
5 процентов 9 процентов 20 процентов
No. It is right.
[da eto pravilno]
Да это правильно
I was wrong.
[ya bil ne prav] [ya bila ne prava]
Я был не прав
Я былв не права
The Gameplay
Illusion comes with two kinds of cards. First, there’s a large stack of the cards containing the illusions. These have an eccentric series of designs on the front, and on the back, they show the percentage of the design for each color (red, yellow, green, or blue).
The other stack of cards shows an arrow with one of the colors.
At the start of each round, one of the arrow cards is shown, and play begins clockwise. Each player has one of two choices on their turn: (a) flip a card and put it in the card line, or (b) challenge. Most of the game comes down to flipping cards and putting them in the row. The goal here is to arrange them in ascending order by the designated color. For example, if there are already cards that have 20% red and 25% red on the table, and you think this one has 22% red, you’d put it between those. (The gameplay here sort of resembles the Timeline or Cardline series.)
A challenge happens when a player thinks something — and it doesn’t necessarily have to be the card played by the previous player — is out of order. All of the cards are flipped over, and the winner of the challenge takes the arrow card. The winner is the previous player if everything is correct; the winner is the challenger if something is out of order.
Play continues until somebody has collected three arrow cards. It’s that easy!
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