Cheatwell Games Tension: The Top 10 Naming Game

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If you’re a bit of a list fanatic, then you’ll enjoy this game. I think I’d be happy just reading through all the cards, but turning lists into a board game is a lot of fun. I can see how good it would be with a crowd of people. But it works for us as a twosome as well. N really underestimated his ability to reach the target when he landed on that space. He did a lot better than he anticipated. You don’t lose out if you answer more, only if you answer less. But with the latter, I think, you have EVERYTHING from that category to list from. In Tension, you could give a correct answer, but it might not be on the card. I still don’t think there are many direct replacements for this game. I guess the ideas been done right, so, you just update it year after year? With the cards being double sided, it means it will take a while to work through all the cards. Some of ours were quite straight topics, but one of mine was ‘types of bed’ – and it wasn’t just furniture beds included. I totally missed out things like ‘sea bed’!

So there you have it. My top ten cents on Tension and why I wholeheartedly believe it deserves a place in everyone’s house. But I’d love to know if you’ve played Tension and enjoyed it just as much as I did. Did it make your top ten list? Feel free to let us know by using the @zatugames tag on any social media platform. What’s more is that the base game covers so many different topics, themes and genres that every player has their chance to show off a speciality subject whilst not having a clue in others. Endless Questions I quite like games like this as an alternative to a ‘proper’ game in a long game day.There was often some kind of Lateral thought such as ‘Things that Fly’ had an answer of ‘Time’. Tension Update July 2019The simple rules and wide subject matter make it a great choice for families, or a lightweight trivia starter to your game night. It’s all a bit of fun and with teams playing and shouting out, it could get chaotic trying to keep score and hear all the answers shouted out. Landing on a swirly mark moves you forward a number of spaces equal to the spaces you moved to land on it. This is interesting as you may want to ‘restrict yourself’ to 4-5 points just to land on a double space.

Tension is a naming game of classic proportions. The game includes loads of questions with 10 given answers to those questions. There may be more answers than are written in those 10 but only the 10 on the card count! Tension truly is a hidden gem of a family quiz game. It’s consistently gripping from start to finish and keeps players engrossed throughout. Furthermore, the top 10 fun doesn’t have to stop with the base game, as there are multiple expansions that can be added for more list themed fun! The great game of Tension now comes in a family edition with cards graded according to difficulty, so that all members of the family can play, whatever the age - from 8 to 98!So what is the Board Game Tension? Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Northern Ireland and the Scottish Highlands) may take longer to reach you.Tension really is a game of its name as the pressure of the one minute timer can make even the fullest brain empty of all its knowledge. Watching the other players flounder to think of any more ‘fruits’ is almost more fun than winning. A Question Mark means you have to predict a number (after hearing the title of the round) and score exactly that in the round or don’t move at all. The game suggests playing as two teams of two but can be just as easily played without the scoring board and team rules - just challenge each other and see who knows the most. You only get 1 minute to give as many answers as you can on a subject, therefore the questions are not the most difficult. Whilst we will do everything we can to meet the delivery times above, there may be factors outside of our control and we cannot guarantee delivery within this time frame.

Covering topics like foods, brands, clothing, inventors, films and sports, there’s a great breadth of topic to ponder over. Some serious and some more fun. words or less– teams have to guess the words on the card from you describing them in 25 words or less. Tension is a game that has aged well, and in the simple rules there is a trivia gem. A game that can be enjoyed by all ages and doesn’t outstay it’s welcome.

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