Memory, Deduction, and Circus Fun for 2 players

Are you looking for a stocking filler? How about a quick 2-player memory game with deduction elements and a small footprint that you can play in 15 minutes? 🤩 This is 🎪Flip Circus in a nutshell. 😉

The game is very easy to learn: It is about moving around a bunch of circus performers along a circle and trying to leverage their special abilities to line up three of the same kind. When you manage that, you can claim their poster. 👌 Whoever collects the 3rd poster first, wins the game. 👑

Each performer is represented by a chip. As you might have deduced from the title, the chips are two sided, both sides representing a different artist. On your turn you can either: 
🔄 Swap 2 adjacent tokens
⤴️ Flip a token or 
⚡ Use any 1 faceup performer’s ability. 

Every performer has special effects: the Acrobat 🤸‍♂️ can swap places with the opposite artist, the Magician 🧙‍♂️ swaps his neighbors while the Fortune Teller 🔮 lets you peek at the other side of the neighbouring tokens. Some of them have ongoing abilities - the Strongman 🏋️‍♂️ cannot be moved while face up and the Animal Tamer 🏇 is immune to other performer’s abilities.

Clowns 🤡 are special: you won’t get a poster for lining them up, but they give you an applause token if you create a group of them any time. And those tokens then can be spent for useful perks, like playing another turn, which might just give you the edge to win the game. 😁

💭 Now, usually I am terrible at memory games, but lucky for me so is Kristóf, so we actually enjoyed this little game very much. 😀 It is very abstract and certainly has a tic-tac-toe vibe to it. You basically try to swap and move chips around and hope the other player already forgot what’s on the other side so you can trick them into letting you collect 3 of a kind lined up. 😛