Family Fun

One of our favorite things to do as a family it to play games. We were thrilled when we had the opportunity to try out the new Cranium Scribblish game.

Cranium Scribblish is a hilarious new game that’s like a cool mashup of the old schoolyard favorite, “The Telephone Game” and Pictionary. Simple, outrageous, and a ton of fun. Everybody grabs a card, chooses a caption, and then tries their best to draw it in 45 seconds. From there you pass on your drawing (now with the original caption concealed in a cool Cranium scroll) to another player, who has to write a caption for your sketch. This mayhem continues around the room with more sketches and captions until the end when everyone tries to figure out how “this” became “that”. Oh, and if you’re not exactly a Picasso, no problem. Stick figures work just fine.

When you have finished drawing and making captions four times, you then get to see the final picture that was drawn. You have to guess which one was yours. It’s amazing how messed up the pictures can get. I was only able to guess mine once! We had so much fun playing this game and we did a ton of laughing. My teenagers agreed this would be a great game to play with a group of their friends.

Here are a few samples of some of the games we played.   On one of them we started out with “Kevin brought his pet shark to school” and it then progressed to:

• “I take my pet shark to school while my head is on fire”
• “My hair catches on fire when I look at sharks”
• “Rabbit on fire vs. Shark”

This is a fun game for a group, and it was fun to play with all ages (we had ages 10, 13. 15, 17, old & older – my husband is “older”, I am just “old’).  Our youngest was too young to play, but he had fun passing out the cards, rolling the dice and starting the timer for us.   We highly recommend this game for some great family fun!    Would you like the chance to win a copy of Cranium Scribblish? I have the opportunity to give a copy of the game to one reader. Woo Hoo!

Here’s how to enter:   Just leave a comment letting me know what one of  your favorite Cranium games is to play as a family (Cranium Cariboo is one of our faves!)

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This giveaway will end on Thursday, October 21st at midnight.  Good luck!

The Scribblish, product information and additional game to give away were all given to me by Hasbro through MyBlogSpark.