Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Can you think of something that's just as important to humanity as a microwave, but doesn't compare in any other way? Help your team avoid the trap by comparing 2 things that match in jsut one way! The Same Game is a party game where you'll be helping your teammates avoid the trap under one of the yellow cups by thinking of creative comparisons, with 4 difficulty levels to challenge even the wittiest players at the table.
In this video we'll teach you how to play The Same Game from Edition Spielwiese and @HachetteBoardgamesUSA
This video was sponsored by @HachetteBoardgamesUSA.
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From the Publisher
Is a microwave more important to humanity than diapers? How differently does a rocking horse move compared to a windshield wiper? And don't a pizza cutter and a unicycle look similar in some way?
Your goal in The Same Game is to help your fellow players avoid falling into a trap. To set up, choose a difficulty level (1-4), then randomly choose the 6-9 category cards (e.g., length, material, price, movement, duration of use, etc.) and lay them on the table. Each player secretly draws a number tile from the bag — from 1 up to the number of categories — returns this tile to the bag, then writes this number on their player board. (More than one player might have this number.) Finally, place a number tile next to each category and deal each player a face-down object card.
After looking at your object card, think of an object that's as similar to your card as possible in your trap category, that is, the category next to the number you wrote down. If your trap category is price, for example, you want to write down an object that costs the same as the object on your card, but is as different as possible in every other way.
Players then take turns being the active player. When you're active, you reveal your object card and written word...then say and do nothing. Everyone else then discusses which categories to reveal one by one. The more categories they reveal without hitting your trap category, the more the team scores!
After everyone has been active player once (or twice with 3-4 players), the game ends. How well did you score as a team?
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Play the Game HQ a youtube channel dedicated to sharing our love of boardgames. Our flagship series, Play the Game, is a high quality multi-camera board game play through series featuring a bunch of friends gathered around the table playing board games. Play the Game takes its inspiration from other shows like Tabletop. Our Mission with Play the Game is to highlight the joy that comes when you gather around the table with friends and play a board game.
Play the Game features a dedicated board game playthrough studio with 7 cameras, a custom board game table, an awesome custom made back-lit logo on the wall, and tons of easter eggs sprinked through the studio space.
Play the Game is also the home of the Kidsplaining tutorial series, where Jarred (12) and Peyton (9) teach some of our favorite games in high quality, scripted board game tutorial videos. Kidsplaining started as a way to share our love of board games and help those who were intimidated by more complicated modern board games take a chance on new ones - because if a kid can teach it, how hard can it be?
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/396542/the-same-game
Can you think of something that's just as important to humanity as a microwave, but doesn't compare in any other way? Help your team avoid the trap by comparing 2 things that match in jsut one way! The Same Game is a party game where you'll be helping your teammates avoid the trap under one of the yellow cups by thinking of creative comparisons, with 4 difficulty levels to challenge even the wittiest players at the table.
In this video we'll teach you how to play The Same Game from Edition Spielwiese and @HachetteBoardgamesUSA
This video was sponsored by @HachetteBoardgamesUSA.
#TheSameGame #PartyGames #boardgames #Tutorial #HowtoPlay #playthegame #PlaytheGameHQ #PlaytheGameChannel #Tabletop #TaletopGames #FamilyGames #Kidsplaining #bestboardgames #bestfamilygames #hottestboardgames
From the Publisher
Is a microwave more important to humanity than diapers? How differently does a rocking horse move compared to a windshield wiper? And don't a pizza cutter and a unicycle look similar in some way?
Your goal in The Same Game is to help your fellow players avoid falling into a trap. To set up, choose a difficulty level (1-4), then randomly choose the 6-9 category cards (e.g., length, material, price, movement, duration of use, etc.) and lay them on the table. Each player secretly draws a number tile from the bag — from 1 up to the number of categories — returns this tile to the bag, then writes this number on their player board. (More than one player might have this number.) Finally, place a number tile next to each category and deal each player a face-down object card.
After looking at your object card, think of an object that's as similar to your card as possible in your trap category, that is, the category next to the number you wrote down. If your trap category is price, for example, you want to write down an object that costs the same as the object on your card, but is as different as possible in every other way.
Players then take turns being the active player. When you're active, you reveal your object card and written word...then say and do nothing. Everyone else then discusses which categories to reveal one by one. The more categories they reveal without hitting your trap category, the more the team scores!
After everyone has been active player once (or twice with 3-4 players), the game ends. How well did you score as a team?
____________________
Play the Game HQ a youtube channel dedicated to sharing our love of boardgames. Our flagship series, Play the Game, is a high quality multi-camera board game play through series featuring a bunch of friends gathered around the table playing board games. Play the Game takes its inspiration from other shows like Tabletop. Our Mission with Play the Game is to highlight the joy that comes when you gather around the table with friends and play a board game.
Play the Game features a dedicated board game playthrough studio with 7 cameras, a custom board game table, an awesome custom made back-lit logo on the wall, and tons of easter eggs sprinked through the studio space.
Play the Game is also the home of the Kidsplaining tutorial series, where Jarred (12) and Peyton (9) teach some of our favorite games in high quality, scripted board game tutorial videos. Kidsplaining started as a way to share our love of board games and help those who were intimidated by more complicated modern board games take a chance on new ones - because if a kid can teach it, how hard can it be?
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/396542/the-same-game
