ロングロングマホウ (Long Long Maho)

ロングロングマホウ (Long Long Maho) is a party game from Japan. The players are part of a magic school that disguises its spells by using tongue-twisters. Players take turns reading ever more complex phrases until somebody fumbles their turn and is out. The last one standing takes the points. The game has a set of cards with short phrases, like ボポボホ」(Bopo Boho) or ンルンンルヌ (Nrununrunu). The round starts out with a couple of cards being dealt up and the starting player reads them out loud, within a time limit. The game has a digital stopwatch. The next player draws another card, and adds it into the set where ever they like and reads it out. Any player that chews their words, or goes over the time limit, is out. Play goes on like this, with more cards being added until only player can read it out loud correctly. That player score a point. After five rounds, the winner is the player with the most points. The designer makes it clear that they are not actually a wizard and these are not real spells and the game is perfectly safe to play. Perfectly. user summary