By: William W. Davis "famousdavis"

William W. Davis "famousdavis" — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 09:23:05 +0000

Great fun for 6, 7 or 8 people only QUICK SUMMARY: This game is a lot of good, clean fun and really delivers a lot of laughs. But it’ll only be really fun for 6, 7 or 8 people.We played this game last night during our New Year’s Eve party. We had a houseful of people, and couldn’t break this game out until late in the evening, shortly before midnight, when the crowd thinned to just those families who were going to ring in the new year with us. That’s an important point, because this game only works well with 6, 7 or 8 people, I think. You can play with fewer, but the results won’t be as fun because the chances for the gameplay to go awry are fewer (going awry = funny outcomes). You can’t play with more than 8, as that’s the maximum number that the game is equipped to play.What I LIKED:- It leads to unpredictable, sometimes very hilarious outcomes, as people try to guess one another’s sketches.- It kept everyone’s interest level up who were playing. In fact, we had too many people who wanted to play, so we swapped people in-and-out so more than 8 could experience game play.- Once everyone got the hang of it, game play is pretty easy to do. It does take a strong game facilitator to LITERALLY make sure that “everyone is one the same page,” especially at the very beginning.- Game length for an 8-person game was about right, that is, about 90 minutes. Long enough to really enjoy the game, not too long that it gets boring.What I DON’T like:- The game will only be really fun for 6, 7 or 8 dedicated players. Too few, and the outcomes aren’t as funny. The game limit is 8, and you really wouldn’t want to play with more than that, because it takes a while for each person to share his or her own sketchbook story at the end of a full round. It’s not a great party game for larger parties.- Young kids can’t play it (well, anyway). The recommended age is 13+, as you need to have a fair amount of knowledge to recognize the words (like, “Cleopatra”), and to spell words that younger kids won’t know how to spell (even phonetically). I like that we didn’t have any words leading to R-rated (or worse) sketches.- It can be challenging to make sure everyone knows what to do, whether they’re guessing a word or sketching a word. In three rounds of play with 8, we had one time where a sketchbook got screwed up because someone earlier didn’t erase one page of their sketchbook.CONCLUSION: If you have the sweetspot of 6, 7 or 8 players who are 13+ years old, this game will deliver great results. It’s a good game to have in your arsenal of party games, but you won’t be able to pull it out at every event you host.

By: Leon P. Sterling "lps58"

Leon P. Sterling "lps58" — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 09:22:48 +0000

Fun For The Family This game combines the best of Pictionery and the old game of Telephone. You pick a card that has various items listed on the card, i.e. dog, vacuum cleaner, ski slope etc. Each item is numbered, and everyone is given the item number they will have to draw on the first page of Telestration. The Telestration booklet is made up of 8 pages of a material that is easily erasable using the provided marker and cloth eraser. After doing your drawing you pass the booklet to the person to your right. On the page following your drawing, they have to write down what you have drawn; then they pass the book to the right and that person has to draw what you have written down. When the booklets have made the rounds of everyone in the game it’s time to reveal the sequence of words and drawings.Laughter, guffaws, surprise, and enjoyment result from the reveal. We’ve had adults and children as young as 10 years old play in a round, and young and old enjoyed it equally. It’s a family game that can be enjoyed by adults. There’s a scoring system if you want to keep score, but we’ve enjoyed it with just sharing the results and disregarding the scoring process.This would be ideal for a game to be played while recovering from the Thanksgiving Turkey, and it would be an excellent gift at Christmas time.

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By: William W. Davis "famousdavis"

By: Leon P. Sterling "lps58"