WHEN ROMANIANS PLAY GAMES (TOMAPAN)

I am playing this game from my childhood online. 

Its name is TOMAPAN

T- țară = country 

O- oraș - city

M- munte - mountain 

A- apă - water body (rivers, seas, oceans)

P- plantă - plant  (you can put both flowers and trees here)

A- animal - animal (anything froim animal regn, ok? Birds, insects, reptiles, amphibians., mammals)

N- name (given names) - person given name , EITHER FEMALE OR MALE 

The game is in romanian. but I think it can be adapted for other countries. 

ALL YOU NEED IS A PAPER AND A PEN! OPTIONAL - CALCULATOR FOR calculating the scores. 

With the pen and the paper you will draw a table with 7 columns and as many as rows as you want. But the first row should contain T O M A P A N so you will not forget what to write there, you will not mix up and will not get answers invalidated!

RULES : 

1. We are supposed to name a country, a city, a mountain, a water body, a plant, an animal and a name that begin with the same letter.

2.So one of the players chooses a letter and the others write their answers AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. The round finishes when the one who has finished first yells ”STOP” Literally like when the teacher says to put the pen down in school :)) 

3. There is no fixed number of rounds. You can 1) extinguish the alphabet 2) a number of rounds of your choice. 

4. Number of players - an optimum number of players is 4. So the value can spread evenly and there will be less time lost counting the scores. 

5. The total scores are calculated AFTER THE ROUNDS FINISH by addinng the respective score for each word, as to not discourage the others. 

6 No one is allowed during the game to know the others s responses. Therefore watch your papers! 

7. You can take rounds to choose the next letter. So if the first was 1, then 2nd player says the next letter and similar, 3 and 4 till it comes back to 1 and on and on again. 

8. ANSWERS WRITTEN IN WRONG COLUMN are invalidated!! Meaning they are 0 pts!! 

9. The game continues fast with the next letter said in few seconds as to not let others cheat! It is a fast game so they will not be able to complete the blanks. It is not only a reaction game but one who tests knowledge also. 

JUDGING: 

1.An original answer - meaning no one else but you has it on their list, is 20 pts.

2. if more people have it, the score decreases, so the answer's value becomes 15 pts (2 people including you) or 10 (3 people including you) or 5 pts (everyone) for example. 

3. The winner is the one with the biggest number of points at the end of the rounds. 

4. What is left blank after STOP IS YELLED BY THE FIRST PERSON who manages to finish, should not be coimpleted. You have to cross them or write 0 IN THEM as they value 0 points. 

Gotta leave an example BELOW xD

PLAYER 1

T O M A P A N
Chile Constanța Caucaz Criș Cactus Capră Constantin
15 10 15 5 15 5 20
            =85 pts total

 PLAYER 2 ( 95 pts)

T O M A P A N
Canada Carei Caucaz Criș Cactus Capră Catalin 
15 20 15 5 15 5 20

 PLAYER 3 (90 pts)

T O M A P A N
Canada Constanța Ceahlău Criș Crin Capră Constanța
15 10 15 5 20 5 20

 PLAYER 4 (90 pts)

T O M A P A N
Chile Constanța Ceahlau Criș Corcoduș Capră   Crina
15 10 15 5 20 5 20

Canada and Chile (country)  both value 15 pts for the PEOPLE WHO NOMINATED THEM. For each answer there were 2 people. 

Constanța (city name) values 10 points for players 1, 3 and 4. (there were 3 people). Only player 2 nominated CAREI (actual city in Romania) so no one else has it and becomes 20 points value. 

Same for Caucaz and Ceahlau , the latter being actual mountain in Romania . It is the same situation as Canada and Chile. Meaning ”Caucaz” and Ceahlau” value 15 points for the players who nominated them. 

Since everyone said Criș , which is a water body in Transylvania,, it becomes 5 pts (the lowest) 

Okay, there were two people who said cactus and one person who said Crin (Lily) and Corcoduș (it is a tree). Cactus values 15 pts for player 1 and 2 while player 3 and 4 get 20 points EACH because they had different answers compared to player 1 and 2, but also between eachother. 

Everyone nominated Capră (GOAT) so it becomes 5 point each 

Because the people names they wrote are all different, they get 20 points each. Constanța is both  a given name and city name in Romania. 

NB: The game is usually played with 4 people because it is simply more manageable and the value is fairly separated.  In the version online on Facebook  there may be modifications as in the value being 5 pts even if more than 4 people nominate it. I have played and saw that the online version allows more than 4 people. It also has a time limit but if someone pushes the STOP button it all stops no matter how more seconds were left to you. and continues fast to the next letter. 

What I wrote is traditional metthod. 

ALSO GUYS...IM SO SLEEPY BUT...ROMANIANS HAVE COMPLEX GAMES AIYOOO... XD IT IS SUPER UBER COMPLICATED AIYOOOO

oHOHHOHHOHHO i played this in my childhood ohhohho :))) nice memory ohhohho 

ALSO IF SOMEONE is wondering - WE USE latin alphabet. We do not have compound letters like Koreans ^^ We have diacritics :))) instead. 

 

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