Monthly Archives: November 2015

Word on the Street by Out of the Box entered this family’s game rotation in 2012 and has kept its curb appeal.

Some basic points:

• Table set up is easy. Open up the board, which looks like a four lane road with a median strip and place letter tiles in the median, as marked.
• Game play is broken into two teams. A team’s turn is comprised of selecting a category card, coming up with a word in that category, and moving tiles based on letter usage within the allotted time.
• The number of times a letter appears in a word is the number of times the letter can be moved toward the playing team. A letter is considered “captured” once a team is able to move it off the street.
• The first team to get 8 letters off the street wins!

This game fosters collaboration and exercises your vocabulary as well as word recall. It’s also amusing. 🙂

Have fun!

Pictionary Card Game

Grandkid #2 loves activities that require some form of creativity.

In preparation for a family visit, a goal was set to find a few games that might entice Grandkid #2 to the gaming table. Pictionary Card Game seemed like it might fit the bill, and its price point was low enough that we wouldn’t be too upset if it was a clunker.

Some basic points:

• Table set up is easy: red cards on one side, blue cards on the other, and category cards in the middle.

Pictionary Card Game spread

• You can have an unlimited number of players since play is broken up into two teams.
  • The “Picturist” for a given round will need access to all the cards for their team.
  • Guessers will need to have a good view of the Picturist and the cards the Picturist is using.
• Game play is like Charades using card props.
• Instructions are straight forward.

It was a blast! Listen to a few seconds of this family taking it for a spin:

Traditional Pictionary was a favorite for many years, but fell out of regular rotation sometime back. We’ve had so much fun with this new version, we may be dusting off the traditional version sometime in the near future.

Have fun!