Contact – Decode the Signal from Space 👽🚀

A mysterious signal is calling, but nobody knows where it comes from. Contact by Steffen Benndorf, published by NSV, is a cooperative game for 2 to 5 players aged 8 and up, in about 20 minutes.

Planet tiles are scattered across the table, and a wooden rocket waits at Earth in the middle. One player takes the role of the Source and secretly draws the target planet. Instead of coordinates, the Source sends flight instructions – without a single word. With a flat hand on the table, the Source lifts the fingers to show the rocket flying in a straight line and taps to mark each stopover, keeping the same rhythm the whole time. The rest of the team, the Crew, must turn that rhythm into a route across the table and point to the right planet. Every wrong guess costs fuel, and if the sixth fuel barrel is used up, the mission fails. Find the target planet in all 12 rounds and you win together – and the box holds a sealed envelope that you only open at the very end. You choose the difficulty yourselves at the start, so the challenge grows with your team.

🚀 Silent Signals

Only taps and rhythm.

🪐 Find the Planet

Decode the route.

⛽ Watch the Fuel

Six wrong guesses lose.

✉️ Sealed Envelope

For the very end.

Why You'll Love It:

• 🤝 Cooperative: win or lose together.
• 🤫 No Talking: a unique challenge.
• 📈 Adjustable Difficulty: grows with your team. More ideas among our family games.

Quick facts

• Players: 2–5
• Playing time: about 20 minutes
• Age: 8+
• Designer: Steffen Benndorf
• Publisher: NSV
• Edition / language: International Edition (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Czech, Greek) or German Edition – choose the variant

Can the Source talk? No – only hand signals.
How do we win? Find the target planet in all 12 rounds before the fuel runs out.

Listen to the signal and play Contact together. 🚀

⚠️ Warning: Choking hazard – small parts. Not for children under 3 years.