Blank Slate - Game Review

Tryazon and USAopoly hooked us up again - this time with the game Blank Slate.  We decided to try this one at a family game night with my parents and my siblings and their families.  We had 12 adults, 5 teens, and a few ages 8-12.  Luckily we had 2 games so only a couple people had to pair up.  A single game is for 3-8 players, but really you could pair up if you had more than that and the pairs/teams could decide on their word together.

Explaining the game was very simple.  Initially I was worried that it was too simple and would get boring fast, but luckily that was not the case.  The scoring is straight forward, and no complicated rules to try to explain.  The game is supposed to be played to 25 points, but we ended up playing for about 45 minutes and the high score (mine of course!) was 21 at that point.  Because we had such a large group, it took longer to get through everyone's answers to see who matched what.  We had little kids there and they were tired of their parents playing by that point so that's when we called it.

The game was great for all ages.  The box says ages 8 and up and I'd say that's pretty accurate.  My 8 year old daughter teamed up with her uncle but could have played on her own.  My 70+ year old dad doesn't like to play games that take a whole lot of thinking or strategy, but he really liked this one and said he'd give two thumbs up!

Currently, the game is only available from Target.  That's not a store or site where I shop very often, and also would make me wonder what they are doing on pricing.  They have it at $19.99 right now which is about what I would expect for a party game like this.

Overall, everyone liked it and this will be a game we play again with this group and other groups!

Telestrations!

Tryazon and USAopoly hooked me up with the Telestrations Party Pack to host a game night, try it out, and post a review of what we thought.

We invited some neighbors over for a game night to check it out.  It was great to get a game that 12 people could play.  Some of our game nights have been quite a bit bigger than 12 people.  Limiting to 12 was good and bad.  Good because there weren't as many people trying to figure out what was going on as we have had in the past.  Bad because we couldn't invite everyone.  With it maxing out at 12 people it kind of made it tricky to make sure we invited enough people but not too many people.  As we talked about it after, if we had more people, you could have some people play as couples - one person takes the drawing turns and the other the guessing turns.  So really it could work for more people.

We had a mix of people that had played and those that hadn't.  It wasn't hard to get up to speed - no complicated rules.  We didn't try keeping track of points so we kept it simple that way.  The timer was great to have to keep things moving.  We did realize that drawings generally took less and less time as the rounds progressed so sometimes we were all done by the time the minute was up.

We also had a variety of artistic skill levels.  Once those of us lacking skills got over the fact that our art was going to be on display, we realized that if we were all artists, the game wouldn't have gotten as ... interesting?  

This will definitely stay in our Frequently Played Games rotation for group sizes up to 12.  

The only concerns we had was with the markers.  It would have been nice if the caps could slide onto the back of the marker while drawing.  Some of the tips were also short and hard to draw with.  And the branding on the markers was already wearing off after just a few rounds.  

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