Heads Up Meets Trivial Pursuit
This one was a pleasant surprise.<br /><br />We had a few rounds of this with different large groups, ranging from ages 20 to 65.<br /><br />To summarize: You are in teams moving along a little colorful cloud piece in a race across a board straight to the finish line. Your goal? To answer as many correct categories as you can with your team, each correct answer moving your piece forward 1 space.<br /><br />The trivia rounds per team are very akin to the game of "Heads Up", where the describer is going through cue cards with describer words they need to use according to the color their game piece landed on.<br /><br />Kids under the age of 14 would likely struggle on a lot of the categories given, especially if they are the describer. Ideally I would say this game is great for anyone older than 14.<br /><br />It really challenges how you think about words and how good your general knowledge is. We touched every category there was, orange being the least favorite (geography) where as some of the other categories (items, things, animals) were much more popular. Some words are more "hip" than the older crowd were used to ("woke" threw everyone off, tumblr was another) but the majority everyone had some degree of familiarity. The celebrities used were very relevant for the times as well.<br /><br />The board itself is super vibrant and cute. I personally loved the art and the overall mood presented, but there were mixed feelings about it amongst the group. The older crowd thought it had too many similar colors and was too "busy" which distracted them from discerning different colors apart. The younger crowd felt the exact opposite.<br /><br />The little cloud game pieces were sooo cute but they are very small and could be easily lost if not properly taken care of or put in the wrong hands (or paws).<br /><br />The instructions took a few passes to get a consensus on overall strategy but once the game got going I think everyone understood what was going on. I think there was some confusion initially on how many spaces we were supposed to move for a correct answer but quickly re-read and figured it out.<br /><br />Overall 10/10, we are probably going to buy ourselves another copy and plan on recommending it to our other board game friends.
Rating: 5 stars