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by Ted Alspach, founder & CEO, Bezier Games

by Ted Alspach, founder & CEO, Bezier Games

A Modern Cooperative Game

Synchronized Swimming is one of the great under-appreciated sports. The effort, training, and practice that goes into a routine is never seen by most viewers of the sport. Instead, you watch as a group of swimmers glides seemingly effortlessly through the water, doing all sorts of coollooking moves, with every team member in perfect synchronization. To get to that point, it takes years and years of incredibly hard work and even more importantly, teamwork. Sync or Swim captures the essence of that kind of teamwork in an easy-to-learn card game for 3-6 players (swimmers). Each swimmer has a five-sided Swimmer Platform that corresponds to a center platform. Around the Center Platform are five element cards, one of which will be revealed each time the team completes a round successfully. Swimmers have to match the tasks on the element cards using cards they are dealt at the beginning of each round. For instance, the EMAIL SALES@ELFCREEKGAMES.COM TO ORDER first element might be that all swimmers have to play one card that’s the same VISIT ELFCREEKGAMES.COM FOR MORE INFO

color as the card played by all the other swimmers. While the swimmers each start with two cards, it’s unlikely they’ll have the same color at the start, so they’ll have to trade cards, and possibly even dive into the deck to find matching cards.

Oh, and there’s a timer running while this all happens.

The good news is that swimmers can say anything they want during the game. They can tell other swimmers what cards they have (the only limitation is that they can’t show their cards to anyone else), they can ask other swimmers for specific cards, and they can give any cards to other swimmers as needed.

After successful completion of the first round, another element card is turned over, the swimmers are dealt new cards, and they go again. This time they need to complete two element cards. This continues until they have successfully completed all five elements, at which time the free app provides the swimmers with their score (out of 100), with all sorts of criteria measured.

To add to the challenge, once per game a unique twist is added, such as swimmers passing their cards to the left after they put down any, or only the team captain being able to speak.

There are 10 sets of elements in the main campaign of the game, which includes 50 unique element cards. These range from simple requirements like all swimmers playing odd blue cards to more challenging ones, such as playing sequential cards of the same color. Cards are numbered from 1-10 in six different colors, and each card has either hands or feet on them, so an element might be that all swimmers must play four cards; two of which must have hands and two must have feet.

After completing the campaign of 10 sets, swimmers can play with random sets of element cards, with a random twist thrown in each round. Games take about 30 minutes to play, and the free app walks swimmers through setup and the rules in just a few minutes, so swimmers of all kinds can quickly start playing.