Description

Game of Tones is a set of fourteen different music games designed to play with tonalities, chords, measures, key signatures, notes on the pentagram and even the location of the notes on a guitar neck. These multiple games can be played at different levels, depending on the musical knowledge of the players. The deck consists of 52 cards representing musical notes and rhythmic figures, with the help of the Circles of Fifths printed on each card, and with different suits or colors, together with some special wildcards.

It consists of many different games, featuring different game mechanics and goals: getting more points or cards than your opponents, be the first to run out of cards, move cards to certain places on the table, etc. In every game there are two different “levels” to keep track: the Musical Level and the Strategy Level, and both are independent from each other. The Strategy Level depends on the particular game, while the Musical Level can be adjusted in most of the games. Some of the games are up to 10 players, others are solitary type ones, for 2 players, and even some of the games can be played in teams or cooperatively.

Pawns are used in some of the games, and Game of Tones also includes two additional board games. These games are called Pianogram, in which the board represents a G-clef staff or a piano, depending on the orientation in which it is placed; and Fretboard, in which the board represents a guitar (or any other stringed instrument) neck.

Designed from an educational standpoint, Game of Tones includes a list of the musical concepts used in every game, and a teaching guide for music teachers. Game of Tones is not language dependent, except for the instructions, which are available in English and Spanish.