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Are you up for a food invention challenge where you use limited ingredients to create the most memorable dish of the night? Here is your chance to prove your skills by getting the best ingredients from winning a series of mini-games, before revealing the final food-theme challenge to win the whole game.
Would you love to test your biology knowledge? Or maybe you need to help your child to review, but not sure how you can make it fun and engaging? Then this Biology Science Scramble board game is what you need to reinforce classroom learning and help with revision in an engaging way. When I first came across this game, I had little idea as to how addictive and challenging it would be.
Out Of Order is a brand new fast-paced party game that comes with a twist! You have to answer the question with the previous answer. Do you think you can answer them out of order? This fun trivia game not only challenges your knowledge but also tests your memory skill. Do you have what it takes? Then come and try this out!
How good are you at music? You may know what kind of music you like to listen to but are you able to guess music questions correctly to be named PopMaster Champion! This game is based on Ken Bruce’s popular BBC Radio 2 show since February 1998.
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire is a popular entertainment show currently hosted by Jeremy Clarkson. This brand new revamped ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Board Game’ has digital lifelines and is available to buy now. This new edition gives you the chance to win a virtual £1 million and works with smart devices to access lifelines. Now you can play this game in the comfort of your own home with your family/friends up to six people or teams! This game is suitable for ages 14 and above.
Taskmaster is a popular entertainment show hosted by the mountainous Greg Davies and his assistant Little Alex Horne. Now you can play this game in the comfort of your own home, with exclusive video tasks from Alex Horne as your final task! This game is suitable for aged eight and above, with three to five players (If you have more than four, you can team up and adapt the rules).
Welcome to Richard Osman’s House of Games show! This game is based on the hit BBC2 show hosted by Richard Osman since 2017. In the show, each week, a group of four celebrities compete against each other and work as a team to test their knowledge in a series of questions to win points throughout the week. The winner will be crowned at the end of the week.
Forbidden Island game is a co-operative game of strategy and team building to collect four sacred treasures from the ruins of this perilous paradise and lift off the Forbidden Island before you get swallowed into the watery abyss! This is one of the few strategy games where you all have to work as a team to complete the adventure.
Conservation Crisis is a strategy board game where players take control of a wildlife reserve in crisis and help to save an endangered species. It is suitable for aged seven and above, and for two to four players.
This board game is very unique and educational. My family learned a lot through this game in helping to understand the current situation that many endangered species are facing.
Pass the Bomb – The Big One is a brand new family board game by Gibsons which contains 5 different challenges that harness your brainpower and tests your skills! This game is for two to eight players and suitable for aged eight and above.
Inside this eye-catching square box, it comes with one electronic timer (red time-bomb), 165 cards, four printed puzzle tiles, one game board, eight wooden playing pieces, one cup, one wooden ball and one special die. The time-bomb requires two AAA batteries which are not included. It does not have an on/off button and there is only one button to activate the timer. The timing is random and can go off any time between 10-60 seconds!
We are so grateful that TOMY has provided us with these four awesome board games for this Easter weekend to keep us entertained! As most places have closed due to the lockdown, leading toy manufacturer, TOMY has shared some of its top games with us to keep the fun going whilst staying indoors!
Unlock! Secret Adventures is the fourth Unlock! range by Space Cowboys we have reviewed and each game has continued to entertain us to the max! We love this range of adventure cooperative card games.
As a quick explanation to this card game, it follows a very similar format to those real escape rooms but here you can play in the comfort of your own home. The game requires players to cooperate to search scenes, combine objects, and solve riddles, in order to solve the puzzles before the timer runs out. There are three full one-hour scenarios in the box, as well as a 10 minute taster game to get the hang of how to play.
If you have read my previous post, you will have seen that we had just played the Unlock! Exotic Adventures game. This is another range of Unlock! adventure cooperative card games, which is called Unlock! Heroic Adventures.
This card game follows a very similar format to those real escape rooms but here you can play in the comfort of your own home. The game requires players to cooperate to search scenes, combine objects, and solve riddles, in order to solve the puzzles before the timer runs out. There are three full one-hour scenarios in the box, as well as a 10 minute taster game to get the hang of how to play.
For our next three blog posts, you will notice that we have played not just one but three Unlock! adventure cooperative card games! This Unlock! Exotic Adventures card game follows a very similar format to those real escape rooms and requires the players to cooperate to search scenes, combine objects, and solve riddles, in order to escape before the timer runs out. There are three full one-hour scenarios in the box, as well as a 10 minute taster game to get the hang of how to play.
HINT is an entertaining guessing game through hinting via drawing, humming, talking and miming about the word for your teammates to guess. The better you are at hinting the word and your teammates guessing it correctly, the faster your team can advance on the game board. But there is a twist in this game! On each card, there is a forbidden word you are not allowed to guess! So be careful with any wild guessing as your team may lose a point! The teams take turns and the first team to make it to the finish space wins.
