2018 In Review - Fulla Game-y Goodness (The Family Gathering Edition)

Given that it was very recently that certain festive time of year, the playing of board games is the other element alongside copious food and drink consumption that always features strongly amongst this Baldy Fella’s family (usually at the end of the day when the drink intake increases and the second round of eating begins). I picked out a few games that seemed like they would be suitable for playing at a point when ability to take in complex rule systems is at its lowest and here’s what we got.

Weird Things Humans Search For
In A Nutshell:- Complete the internet search
Each card has the beginnings of a question asked to popular internet search engines (Ask Jeeves, AOL Online, etc - not really, we all know it’s Google) and then ten possible answers. Points are scored for guessing the possibilities on the card. Caution - depending on the filthiness of players minds, the answers given may start to degenerate...

Mr Lister’s Quiz Shootout
In A Nutshell:- Back-and-forth quickfire quizzing
Each card has a category and a list (e.g. name Winnie The Pooh’s 7 friends) and the two teams go back and forth answering. First to three wins the cards, first to get the full set of bottles on the backs of the cards wins. Good fun - need to make sure you alternate which team goes first as it could get a little unfair.

Colour Brain
In A Nutshell:- The answer’s the colour
Each player has eleven colour cards which you play as the answer or answers to the question e.g. the four colours of the Teletubbies. Good fun - think this one was the most popular. The only thing missing was some sort of card dispenser - we had to put something on top of the pile so you couldn’t see the top answer.

Now That’s What I Call Music: The Board Game
In A Nutshell:- Traditional trivia board game with a music theme
A mixture of traditional trivia questions along with shum it, whistle it, mime it-type questions to mix it up. The only oddity with this one is, if you’re lucky with rolls, you can move quite a way around the board without having to answer a question.

Alright, that’s games sorted. Come back next time for a bit more stuff about things.