Cranium is a board game which seems to me to be a mish mash of several other popular board games and traditional games, including elements similar to trivial pursuit, scattergories, charades, pictionary and scrabble. We had owned this game for some time but recently played it with another couple we are friends with for the first time in ages and we had forgotten how much we enjoyed it. Basically, you play in teams and the aim is quite simple, to get around the board as quickly as possible by rolling a strange, 10 sided die which has colours on it (red, blue, yellow, green and purple - x2 of each). This determines which colour you land on and also which task ...  Read the complete review

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

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

I was given Cranium as a Christmas present recently. If, like me, you have never heard of it before, you may initially not have much enthusiasm for it. But this game is FANTASTIC, and you will only get to realise it by playing it. Hopefully, my opinion might help persuade you to give it a try, otherwise you are missing out big time! Cranium is a bit of everything! Ever played Trivial Persuit, Pictionary, Rapidough, Charades? This game has all that plus much, much more! It is already huge in the United States. In fact, according to their web site, Crainum sold more copies in its first week on sale than Trivial Persuit did in its first year! ...  Read the complete review