Colourbrain: Award-Winning Simple Family Board Game

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Each player of team also gets a power card to use, when they are losing to severely limit the leading teams options and give them a chance to catch up. Because the questions are greatly varied across different themes and categories every player feels involved and has a good chance to compete.

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The original boxset (called simply Colourbrain) has the most questions at 300 but is catering for all age groups so some … Although, each team also possess a Colour Capture Card that allows them once per game to temporarily steal at the eleventh hour several colours at random from an opposing player/team’s colour palette before they answer the next question, thus hamstringing their likelihood of correctly answering. We ended up stretching the rules for our youngest who loved the game, knew the answers but couldn’t work quite fast enough and just ended up with her cards face up on the table relying on the honesty of her family and friends not to copy her answers, the fix lies in the team mechanic and allows young ones to play with older siblings or parents handling the cards. For anyone unaware of Monopoly, the game sees two to six players make their way around a board as they buy, sell and trade properties to win.COLOURFUL ANSWERS: Each team has eleven Colour Cards in their hand. To answer the question, work out which colour to put down! It’s not just pop culture questions either, this is where the Junior version bridges the gap between Disney and grown up versions. There’s an excellent range of entertaining general knowledge questions too, for example: An Elephant eating candy floss? A flamingo juggling walnuts? Or a donkey holding a bottle of Sprite?! Each card lets you know how many colours you need (in the above cases 2), and gets brains, old and young, whirring trying to figure out the answers. Colour charts

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The original Codenames is a breakout party game that’s been a hit with both board game hobbyists and family gamers alike. You lay out a grid of word cards, divide into two teams, and one player on each team takes the role of clue-giver, who knows which cards on the grid “belong” to each team. The catch is they’re only allowed to think up one-word clues to link as many cards as they can together for their team-mates to guess. As an alternative, you can have a single team playing co-operatively to see how fast they can guess all the clues. Colour Brain also has a nifty catch up mechanism in the form of the colour capture card which can be used only once per game to steal 8 random colour cards from the player or team ahead of you in points. That team will now have to attempt to answer the next question using only the three remaining cards in their hand before regaining all their cards again thereafter. Perhaps the biggest difference in this junior version of the game is that it only facilitates two players or teams. It’s head to head if you will. But this allows for a simpler method of scoring. The winning player or team simply take the card, first to 10 cards wins. It also allows for a softer scoring system whereby the closest answer wins the card. It still retains the colour capture system though so the trailing team have that one chance to catch up. If you’re planning on playing with younger pip-squeaks just be aware they won’t have a clue what the answer is for 75%-80% of the questions or understand the question – largely because a lot of the questions require some prior cultural, historic, geographic, musical or cinematic knowledge. Built for one to four teams of one to three players per team, the box suggests a player age of 8 plus. In reality you can play (as we did) with players under 8. The key challenge is hand size (never thought I’d say that), little ones understand the questions and likely know more answers than their parents given the source material but will struggle to effectively “fan” the eleven colour cards and find the appropriate ones inside the 15 second pressure timer after the first player lands their cards. Simple concept but effective for the family.

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Irrespective of which version you settle on, there really are minimal components which makes it perfect for holidays or when in transit (on rail, ferry or flight). To travel light, you could do away with the box, pop a pile of question cards in an elastic band along with the colour cards and hey presto – low fi Colourbrain holiday version. Disney Colourbrain (or Colourbrain: Disney Edition depending on your flavour) is a lovely party game for all ages. The accessibility is incredibly low and there is no learning curve. What’s more is it allows you (me) to express their passion for all things Disney without being overbearing! All The Intellectual Property Is Here! What’s more is how unfair it can feel. Eight cards out of eleven taken is effectively a guaranteed loss, right? We haven’t seen the game won on a steal round before, and that’s simple due to the statistical impossibility of it. It could happen, and it would be epic, but the pretence of a massive steal doesn’t work for me. Personally, I’d play it as play against anyone. But hey, maybe it’s just lost on me. Final Thoughts

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We’ve all got our favourites, but here’s a look at some fun board games that make for perfect family bonding time. Monopoly In terms of quality, the colour cards are large, weighty in comparison to a standard playing card and have a thread material with gloss finish. Game cards are clearly illustrated and show both the logo of the film from which the question originated as well as the number of colours needed to answer, on the flip side a high quality image from the film depicting the answers. Game cards are much smaller at around 50% of the size of a colour card and notably more delicate. Before the carnage starts ….It takes hours to finish and you will unfortunately discover a sinister side to your fellow competitors, but Monopoly is the ultimate family-pleaser.