Walkie Talkie Review
Party games are a rarity on my gaming table, doubly true since the start of the pandemic. It’s just not often that I have 4+ players to test them out and party games also rarely work well under that player count. However, that’s not always the case. Occasionally one pops up that actually works well under 4 players, small parties FTW. Recently, Walkie Talkie appeared in a package from Devir Games with a couple of other small box games. The premise was intriguing, as was the playtime of 1-4 minutes. So I decided to give it a go.
Walkie Talkie is a party game published by Devir Games for 2-8 players. The game takes only 30 seconds per player.
Walkie Talkie is very simple play. The only thing in the box, other than the rules, is a deck of 50 cards with letters on one side and colors on the other. To set up, you flip half the deck over and shuffle the deck together. Each player gets a dealt a hand of 6 cards, and two cards are placed in the center of the table. One of the two cards should be the color side, while the other needs to be the letter side.
In this cooperative game, a timer is set at 30 seconds per player, and on go, players try and play cards from their hands. There are no rounds, just real-time action. The goal is to think of a word that uses a card from your hand and the opposite type of card from the table. For example, if the letter on the table is a “W” and you have a green card in your hand, you can call out “Watermelon” and play the green card, replacing whatever color was already on the table.
If players get stuck, they have two options for help. Someone can call out “Roger” and all players turn their hands of cards over. If someone calls out “Over”, then all players pass their hand to the player on their
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