Cover art for Speed Dating

Speed Dating

2012 · BGG
Queer friendly
Avg rating
5.11
Bayes rating
5.50
Weight
1.00 (Light)
Players
3-6
Playtime
40 min
Ratings count
31

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🤝 Inclusive design Inclusive design is separate from a game’s queer labels. It marks games whose design is deliberately inclusive even when not queer-themed: romance or marriage mechanics with no gender constraint, character creation without a forced gender binary, gender-neutral rules language, or table safety tools. Each marker shows where we found it.

  • Romance/marriage mechanics with no gender constraint
    According to the game’s own description
    “each other player must select three cards from his hand and convince the main player that she (or he) is his best match”
  • Character creation free of a gender binary
    According to the game’s own description
    “each other player must select three cards from his hand and convince the main player that she (or he) is his best match”

Description

In Speed Dating, each player has twelve cards in hand: six with female characteristics, and six with male characteristics. The main player for the turn selects three cards from his hand and lays them down, describing his character – for example, for a male character: "war weapons collector, spends his holidays in Kazakhstan, likes movies about gladiators". Then each other player must select three cards from his hand and convince the main player that she (or he) is his best match. The main player then selects the turn's winner.

Speed Dating feels like a minimalistic and hilarious role-playing game, or like an adult version of Once upon a Time, or a more involved version of The Big Idea.



Mechanics

Role Playing Storytelling Voting

Themes

None recorded

Publishers

Arclight Games Letheia Trefl Joker Line

Designers

Bruno Faidutti Nathalie Grandperrin