Hocus Focus (1998)

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Designer	Reinhard Staupe
Artist	Scott Angle Oliver Freudenreich
Publisher	AMIGO Spiel + Freizeit GmbH Gamewright Nürnberger Spielkarten Staupe Spiele
Year Published	1998
# of Players	2 − 8
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Playing Time	10 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	6 and up
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Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (1 voter) [poll]
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Mechanic	Pattern Recognition
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Primary Name	Hocus Focus
Alternate Names	Merlin
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The games consists of 30 cards each showing a wizard. The wizards are all different, being small, medium or large, and having different coloured shoes, cloaks, hats, and spells.

Twelve cards are placed face up in the centre of the table, along with the face-down deck. One player turns over the card on top of the deck. All players now try to identify a card from the table which has nothing in common with the new card.

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Dutch rules	http://spelarch.khbo.be/PDFspelregels/2646.pdf	2012-01-01
Merlin - Amigo Spiele - Dutch review on speldatabase.be	http://speldatabase.be/spelinfo.php?id=2646&zoekcr...	2012-01-01
Merlin - Staupe Spiele - Dutch review on speldatabase.be	http://speldatabase.be/spelinfo.php?id=1062&zoekcr...	2012-01-01
German review - Hall9000	http://www.hall9000.de/html/spiel/merlin	2011-05-17
German review - Reich der Spiele	http://www.reich-der-spiele.com/kritiken/Merlin	2011-05-17
German review - Spielphase	http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/keirat/tx...	2011-05-17
German review - Spielbox	http://www.spielbox.de/indxtemp.html?/spielarchiv/...	2011-04-18
Multilingual rules from Gamewright in PDF format	http://www.gamewright.com/gamewright/pdfs/Rules/Ho...	2009-09-03