A game that has a bit of everything (Cranium)

Member Name: arrnoosa

Product:	Cranium
Date:	29/05/09 (19 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: play in pairs, mixture of events and not jus questions

Disadvantages: geneal knowledge questions are too hard!

This is a board game that has something for everyone. There are 4 categories of questions; "Data Head" (general knowledge), "Creative Cat" (drawing, modelling), "Word Worm" (spelling) and "Star Performer" (charades).

The game is designed for late teenagers/adults and is played in pairs with a minimum of 2 pairs required for a game to take place. The board is designed with different colour spots that go around the board. Each colour spot refers to a certain category. In order to roll the dice and move around the board you must get your question correct. Once you have gone all the way around the board, you must then answer a correct question from each category to be crowned winners.

We have not had a dull game of this against friends and family, drinking or not drinking (having a drink helps when you do star performer, for me anyway!!).

You do not have to be super intelligent either as only one category invlolves questions and a lot of those are multiple choice. The board comes with pads of paper, pencils and plasticine for the sculpting in creative cat.

Data Head:
Multiple Choice questions (can refer with team mate)
Non multiple choice questions (can refer with team mate)
True or False (can refer with team mate)

Creative Cat:
Drawing (one person draws whilst the other person guess's what it is)
Drawing whilst blindfolded (one person draws whilst the other person guess's what it is)
Sculpting (one person sculpts whilst the other person guess's what it is)

Star Performer:
Act out clues of someone famous (one person acts whilst the other person guess's who it is)
Act out clues of something (one person acts whilst the other person guess's what it is)
Hum or whistle a tune to a song(one person whistle/hums whilst the other person guess's what song it is)

Word Worm:
Spell a word
Spell a word backwards
Guess the definition of the word

There are 4 purple planets on the way around the board to get to the end. You must stop on these planets no matter what you roll. If you get your first question right after you land on the planet, you get to take the 'fast route', which means there are less spaces to the next purple planet!

Brilliant game for everyone of all intellect.

Summary: general knowledge, creativity, words and charades