FunkoGAMES Cranium Hullaballoo Game

Not as good as the original I had as a child. You need a smartphone to operate it. But great fun and nostalgia for the kids.

The old version so much more fun also the floor pieces are Felt Not sure how long the will last the ones before were soft plastic type washable I also loved the music box it came with before but now this comes on a app !! ☹️ so hopefully will still be the same please bring back the older version 🙏🙏

My extended family has a monthly 'family game night' and we are always looking for games that are appropriate for all ages. Sometimes we have six-year-old kids playing and sometimes we have eighty-year-olds playing, with all ages in between. This game is suitable for the whole (extended) family.Set up is easy: everyone gets dealt 4 playing cards. On each card there is a Person, an Object and a Place. They're 'themed' cards, so an example a card might have Thomas Jefferson as a person, The Declaration of Independence as an object and America as a place. The rest of the deck goes in the center of the table, to replenish each player's cards as the players use them up during their turn.Game Play: also in the center of the table, there are four double-sided 'guides' (as I'll call them) which provide instructions on what to do. One side is 'basic' instructions and the other side is 'advanced' instructions. They are red (word games), yellow (this is escaping me at the moment), green (acting in a charades-type manner), and blue (drawing on the included dry-erase board). You roll the multi-colored die, and let's say the face on the die is Blue and the symbol on it is a Location pin. According the the 'guide' for that color, you have to look at your player cards and draw the 'location' on the card. Using the above example, that'd be America. If you were using the flip-side / advanced 'guide' then you'd have to draw it as tiny as humanly possible. If you rolled a green face with a Person icon, you'd have to act like Thomas Jefferson. If you were doing the advanced guide version, you'd have to act like Thomas Jefferson *but* your elbows would have to remain glued to your sides like a T-Rex. There are also 4 'coins' that you can use to change categories.The idea is that EVERYONE is on the same team, and you play against a timer. There's a link to install an app but we just used our regular phone's timer. You set it for 15 minutes and pause it in between plays (unless one person is playing and everyone is guessing, the timer gets paused). When someone guesses your drawing/word/etc: that card goes in a pile of 'winners.' You see how many winning cards the team can collect before the 15 minutes is up.It's fun, it goes quickly, and it's faster to play than regular Cranium. I am not a fan of learning new games, but this one was no problem. to learn and understand quickly.

Oh my goodness! My 7 year old had a BALL with this game. We played the green cards at first, which are easier, and once he had the gist, he was off to the races.The back of card bonus question/activity adds some easy-peasy fun and a chance for wiggles and I'd say makes the most sense when playing with others so you can enjoy each other's sillyness. But the overall seek-and-find-and-puzzle part is brilliant and is both accessible and challenging for kids (maybe up to 10? 12?).My son started playing the red (harder) puzzles on his own and has come back and put hours into those when I wasn't available to play. Occasionally he'd check in when he had a stumper and we would figure it out together or flip it over for the answer, but that fact this game can provide solo entertainment away from a screen can be a huge plus for a busy mom!I don't know who did the art for this but it is SO creative and filled with hidden visual jokes and puns for adults to enjoy and more than a few hidden references to movies/TV/pop culture. I think I laughed out loud at the sand-witch. And there is just so much of it. It's an enormous multi-part board that pieces together into a giant map with very dense detail. I think you could stare at it all day and still find new things to notice every time you come back.If you and your kids like Where's Waldo but wish it had some brain teaser and puzzly-ness, this is a home run. (I almost wrote No-Brainer! LOL) It challenges them to interpret what they see, not just find it.I think this game has a lot to offer and I would give it six stars if I could. Instead I'm just going to buy copies for everyone I know with elementary age kids.

I have a system buying games, if I've never heard of it or about it, I'll give it a chance if it's $10 or under. This was on sale so I bought it. We ended up playing this and had a blast. We ended up doing house rules for the harder parts, Namely hints only using a single letter for all the hints. I recommend a password style house rule for the yellow color if English isn't a language you've mastered. Overall a really fun game. My 9 year old daughter absolutely loved playing ot that she wants to include it in our rotation of games played on family game night. My 17 year old son thought it was pretty fun as well. The names, as this game would be a game of what a noun is, could be a little difficult for the younger ones. It's a game that will be included in our rotation of games played on family board game nights.

This is a really fun game at an excellent price. It’s easy to learn and understand and the cards are a good quality. I would absolutely recommend.

This game is great for kids under the age of ten or so, and even preschoolers can enjoy it if they have someone to read for them. It's basically a giant "Where's Waldo" style game, with clues on cards for kids to find specific items on the map. There is a timer to find the items and all the players work together. There are also easier cards for younger players. If you have 2+ children under ten (or your child has some friends over), this is a fantastic game they can set up and play all on their own!There are only two small flaws with this game:First, it's boring as heck for adults to play. There are a lot of good family games that are entertaining for both adults and kids (off the top of my head, "Throw, Throw, Burrito" is one), but this game is JUST for kids. Following the clues on the cards and finding the pictures is exceedingly simple for an adult, so you'll just spend you time watching your children play, versus actually participating yourself.The second flaw is much more serious, but may require more testing before I am sure. So when the players find the pictures on the board they earn tokens with point numbers on them. The tokens are taken at random from a face-down pile, so the amount of points they get for each token are also random. Well both times I played with my kids, they almost lost because the random values of the tokens they selected just barely added up above the winning number at the end of the game. I am pretty confident that players could find every picture on all the cards within the time limit and still LOSE the game! There is a "rule" or system in the game to help with this problem, but it's entirely optional. Every clue card has a "bonus" game or activity the players can do after they look for the picture. This is usually something silly like "hop on one foot for 30 seconds" and then they get a 2nd token for that round. Again, the problem is that if players choose not to do any of the bonus activities, it greatly increases the chances that they will lose the game (which kind of make these activities REQUIRED, instead of "optional"). My children did not choose to do every bonus activity, and like I said, both times we played they barely scored enough points to win. Just something to think about.