How’s Your Brain Working Today? The trivia countdown game, noun version.
I bought this for my 2nd child years ago—I think I intended for it to be a stocking stuffer, but it turned out to be too big for her stocking. And then… I don’t think anyone ever played it! Until now.
It's a simple game--just a deck of cards, each one with 10 clues that direct you to one answer at the bottom of the card. Theoretically, the clue at the top of the card (#10) is the hardest, and the clue at the bottom of the card (#1) is the easiest (although sometimes that certainly did not seem to be true). Each player takes turns being The Reader, who starts reading clues at the top of the card and slowly reads more and more clues, giving the other players time to guess in between. The sooner another player guesses the answer, the more points they receive.
This was not an ideal game for Finn, who got zero points. Even if he hadn't had such stiff competition, I'm not sure he would have done very well at guessing answers like Julia Roberts, the UN, and the ozone layer. But I think he still had fun. I enjoyed it too! Once again I'm going to say this is a game that would be fun on a car trip, with one modification--instead of tracking points based on how many clues were needed to guess the answer (which really needs pen and paper, or at least a phone with a Notes app), it would be easier to just track number of correct guesses.
Warning: not to be played if Sam is in a grumpy mood.
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