2021
board game
published by Resonym
The Story | Game Play | Where to Buy
The Story
Renowned Mediums race to figure out a secret object that their teammate—a Spirit—is trying to communicate. Mediums take turns asking their Spirits questions about the secret object.
But there’s a catch—Spirits work in mysterious ways, and only write the first few letters of each answer on the Spirit Pad. Figure out the answers to the questions, and guess the secret object before the other team to win!
Game Play
Phantom Ink is a 15-minute party game about renowned mediums competing to prove who has the best connection with the World Beyond. To do this, mediums must correctly identify a secret object that the Spirits are trying to communicate to them.
Players form two teams, each with 1 Spirit and up to 3 Mediums, both competing to identify the same Secret Object. During game play, Mediums pass question cards, like “What color is it?” or “If it was a musical instrument, what would it be?” to their Spirit. Spirits know the Secret Object, and answer the questions in order to provide Clues to help their Mediums guess the Secret Object.
There’s a catch: the other team doesn’t see what question you asked, but they do see the answer. Mediums call “Silencio” when they know the Clue their Spirit is writing, to make it hard for the other team to learn anything from the Clue.
If the other team sees the Clue “Y”, that doesn’t help much. But you know the question was “What color is it?” so the Clue must be “Yellow”!
Press
- “‘Phantom Ink’ Puts A Lot Of Spirit Into Party Puzzling.” The Fandomentals, 12 January 2023.
- Vernall, Matthew. “Phantom Ink Review.” Tabletop Gaming, 28 July 2022.
- Wray, Chris. “Phantom Ink.” Gamers Alliance, Summer Issue 2022.
- Garcia, Zee. “Phantom Ink Review.” The Dice Tower, 22 June 2022.
- Stegmaier, Jamey. “Phantom Ink: My Favorite Game Mechanism.” Stonemaier Games, 7 June 2022.
- Medina, Raina. “Phantom Ink.” 1 Minute Board Games, 31 May 2022.
Awards
- 2021 Awarded the Game Makers Guild Seal of Approval
Where to Buy
You can find my games at your local game store, Amazon, or from my game company, Resonym.
