Flummoxed
BGG rank
BGG #23,713
BGG rating
6.3

Flummoxed

1998

Rules assistance for Flummoxed

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

  • 3 players
  • 60 min
  • 12+
  • Complexity 1.0/5

Rules assistant for Flummoxed

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

Flummoxed is a board game released in 1998 60 minutes per game and ages 12 and up. It was designed by Leslie Scott and Sara Finch and its main mechanics are Paper-and-Pencil and Voting.

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About the game

The Foreign Language Bluffer’s Game Don’t worry if you are completely floored by Finnish or totally baffled by Bulgarian. It doesn’t matter a jot if Japanese is all Greek to you and Swahili sounds like Double Dutch. Nothing’s lost if you’re ineffective in Efik and totally hopeless in Hopi. Anyone who can bluff in English, can certainly flummox in Flummoxed and thoroughly enjoy this marvellous play on words. At the beginning of each round, one player, The Reader, picks up a card. Printed on one side of the card are background notes on a foreign language. On the other side are six words in that language, plus an English definition of each word. The Reader reads one word aloud, revealing the language from which the word comes, but not the meaning of the word. Each other player has to ‘translate’ the given word and write a fake but plausible definition for it in an attempt to bluff fellow players into believing the definition is correct. Age 8+ For 4+ Players Product Contents 120 x Cards representing different languages 1 x Writing Pad 1 x Die 1 x Set of Rules Product Safety Not suitable for children under 36 months

Publishers

  • Lagoon Games
  • Oxford Games, Ltd.

Questions and answers

The listed playing time for Flummoxed is 60 minutes. This is the publisher’s estimate for a full game. The actual duration depends on the group, the player count and familiarity with the rules: first sessions usually run longer, while experienced groups often finish faster. Setup and teaching time are not included in this estimate.