Cranium

by Hasbro

Product Features

• Smash-hit, award-winning board game brings friends together through a variety of activities that provide something for everyone
• Now with 600 all-new cards
• Features an innovative three-way folding game board that allows players to choose the length of game
• Provide something for everyone!
• Supported with new TVC featuring real players having outrageous fun

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2.6 x 10.5 x 10.5 inches ; 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0036RNWOA
• Item model number: 16577
• Manufacturer recommended age: 18 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #423 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

First-ever complete refresh of Cranium game. Smash-hit, award-winning board game brings friends together through a variety of activities that provide something for everyone. Now with 600 all-new cards. Features an innovative three-way folding game board that allows players to choose the length of game. Supported with new TVC featuring real players having outrageous fun.

Product Description

Cranium is the outrageous, award-winning board game packed with something-for-everyone fun! Whether you're an aspiring actor, artist, data hound, or wordsmith, Cranium gives you a chance to shine. Cranium brings families and friends together -- after dinner, at parties, on rainy afternoons. When you play Cranium, you'll use your brain in ways you never imagined and find yourself doing the unexpected. And the fun doesn't end when the game does -- you'll never forget your uncle impersonating Celine Dion, your sister acting out pigs in a blanket, your mom spelling asparagus backwards, or your best friend sculpting Humpty Dumpty out of clay! What's in the box? Cranium includes the Cranium board, 600 outrageous cards covering 14 activities, a ten-sided Cranium die, a tub of cool Cranium Clay, a timer, Cranium pads and pencils, and four Cranium play pieces. Actual brains not included!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Probably my favorite board game!!, December 10, 2010

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Danielle Sulzer "Miss Mary Effen Sunshine" (Flagstaff, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Cranium (Toy)

This game is so much fun!! There are 4 categories that you can play on 3 different board sizes, depending on how long you want to play. I played the original version, but the new categories in this are up to date and a lot of fun. The categories are: Data Head where you must decide if things are true or false, or other such ideas. There is Creative Cat, which is where you must draw with or without your eyes open, or even sculpt with the included "clay". There is Word Play where the people on your team must take turns to spell a word backwards, for example, Mom says "o", sister "g", friend "n", Mom "i", sister "m", friend "a", Mom "l", sister "f" to get the word "flamingo". This is a real card by the way, so practice up!! Word play also has unscramble the words and fill in the blanks. The final category will have you humming or whistling a tune, playing charade like games, or impersonating famous folks. My best recommendation with this game is to have someone from all age groups or someone who is familiar with very current events on each team. I had to impersonate Victoria Beckham and Beyonce, while my sister hummed GnR's Welcome to the Jungle, and my mother-in-law impersonated a back up dancer and zombie.

A super big plus is there is not a lot of rules and for confusing areas we just all settle on a way to play the game and can bend the rules as necessary or not. Totally fun game! Way worth the purchase!!

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great family fun, January 6, 2011

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sugarfoot - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Cranium (Toy)

I bought this game for my sister in law. I have the original cranium which we loved to play. I like the new version better. It seems a little easier but a lot sillier. There is a sideshow card that requires you to use a teammate as a puppet to act out an action. It's hilarious. We had a great time and did not get as frustrated as with the original version.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Questions became too easy, October 6, 2011

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barnyard (NJ) - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Cranium (Toy)

As someone who has played the original Cranium before many times I was very disappointed to find that the "new" Cranium was far too easy. The questions on this new version seem overly simple compared to the difficulty the old version had. I was not the only one in our group who thought this was the case. This made the game not as fun and challenging as it used to be. Overall pretty disappointed with this version.