Pow Wow, published in 2006 by Ravensburger, is a very simple bluffing game. Each player wears a headband and place a numbered cardboard feather on his/her forehead so that everybody can see every player's feather but not its own. The object of the game is to declare a number that is no higher then the sum of ALL the feathers. When you declare a number the player on your left can raise the declaration or challenge you. If the player challenges you all the feathers are revealed and the numbers summed. If the total is not lower then the number declared the challenging player loose and get a penalty point. If the total is lower, the looser is the declarer. Apparently, guessing the total shouldn't be too difficult, but some special feathers can increase or decrease so widely the range of the possible final outcomes.
The point is that damn feather can be the one on your head! And that's exactly where your bluffing strategy begins. It's funny too see a player declaring an almost impossible number showing his or her best poker face: is he looking at your extra multiply special feather, or is he simply bluffing?
During the game, players can also use some special rules, like accepting the declaration without raising it, changing the direction of play or choosing an opponent to take an additional feather.
During the game, players can also use some special rules, like accepting the declaration without raising it, changing the direction of play or choosing an opponent to take an additional feather.
But part of the fun comes also from the components. All the players wear a colored headband that holds a feather on their foreheads (but also the penalty tokens) so everybody looks like a real Indian (as you can see in the picture). Pow Wow can be comfortably played without using hands and this makes it a perfect party game for any board game café. The game is totally independent on language and the rules booklet is printed in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch. The game is up to 8 players and lasts 30 minutes as an average. Pow Wow (that means "gathering" in the Indian language) is a new and revised edition of the game Coyote, previously published by Kidultgame. Coyote entered the list of the suggested game by the Jury of the "Spiel des Jahres" award in 2004 and finished 2nd in the category "Foreign Games" of the Japanese Game of the Year Award 2004.
Pow Wow won the prestigious Austrian "Spiele Hits Für Viele" award in 2006.
Pow Wow won the prestigious Austrian "Spiele Hits Für Viele" award in 2006.
