Affinity
BGG rank
BGG #16,618
BGG rating
6.5

Affinity

2018

Rules assistance for Affinity

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 3–8 players
  • 20 min
  • 8+

For 3 players

Rules assistant for Affinity

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Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.

Affinity is a board game released in 2018 for 3–8 players, 20 minutes per game, and ages 8 and up. It was designed by Jean Philippe Sahut, Roméo Hennion, Clément Leclercq, and Davy Bernard and its main mechanics are Simultaneous Action Selection, Cooperative Game, and Voting.

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About the game

Everyone can understand emotions, but can you decipher each other's emotions? Is your group harmonious...or perhaps discordant? Find out in this game full of emotions... In Affinity, all players get an emotion card, with one of the four "emotion spirits": Fun, Sad, Beautiful or Creepy. Each player also draws nine sentence cards: three starts, three middles, and three endings. With three cards, one of each type, they create a sentence trying to convey, as best they can, the emotion they received, then they give the sentence to the player on their left. The sentences are then read, and everyone other than the person who created each particular sentence can then discuss them, attempting to guess what the intended emotion was. If they guess the right emotion, move the complicity token forward; if not, move the Discord token forward. The game continues until Harmony or Discord reaches the end of the track.

Questions and answers

Affinity supports 3–8 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.