Cranium

Cranium is a comical, colourful boardgame in which 2 or more teams of 2 or more players attempt to complete activities (e.g. charades, spelling backwards, drawing like in pictionary) as they travel around a board. There are 4 categories of activity, each associated with a fun character, which both people in the team take part in: "Creative Cat" involves drawing, drawing blindfold or making sculptures out of clay for the other team member to guess. "Word Worm" contains annagrams, spelling challenges and cryptic fill-in games. "Data Head" (by far the most difficult) involves general knowledge and true or false questions. "Star ...  Read the complete review

Cranium is another one of those games which can be a lot of fun on a dark winter's night! As you would expect from the title, it is a game that stretches different aspects of your brain. The main version of Cranium is intended for adults, although older teenagers are fine, and you have to play in teams so you need upwards of four players in order to start. The game comes in a colourful attractive box with the claim 'Outrageous Fun for Everyone!'. I don't think that I would go that far but it is good fun and because there are different categories to play, I would say there is something for everyone. There is a fairly straightforward board with four different ...  Read the complete review

Contents of box Playing board Four pads and pencils Pot of clay four packs of cards Four playing pieces Dice Egg timer Instructions OVERVIEW Cranium is a board game all to do with using different aspects of your brain it could be spelling,drawing,scuplting ,acting or general knowledge. You have one minute to complete the task on the card. in which you time using the egg timer provided. You work in teams you could have your team of two people or as many as you like per team. The object of the game is to get to the inner cranium by getting questions or actions correct You roll the coloured ...  Read the complete review

Can you spell "rhododendron" without writing it down, or "psychology" backwards on your first attempt? How about getting your teammates to guess the word "platform shoe" by modelling with play-doh, or "sleeping bag" by drawing it with your eyes closed? Do you know whether a cockroach can live for a week or not without its head, or who narrated Trumpton and Camberwick Green? Can you do an impression of Eddie Izzard, or mime a lava lamp? If you can answer yes to these questions, then maybe Cranium is the game for you. Maybe you said no to most of them, but fancy the idea of having a laugh anyway. Good for you. I bought this ...  Read the complete review

Cranium is best described as a mix of pretty much every fun board game you can think of. Except Monopoly. And Scrabble. Oh yes, and it not like snakes and ladders either. It's a little like trivial pursuit though, but not a lot. Anyway, it's basically a mix of many noisy games like Charades and Pictionary. Cranium is played by up to four teams, who have to draw, act, sculpt clay, and be generally clever to get to the middle of the board first. I bought this game based on recommendations. I noticed the iwantoneofthose.com catalogue raving about it, and if they rave, it's normally something pretty special. Granted, their reviews are normally ...  Read the complete review