Customer Reviews

Luck of the Draw, a Game for the Artistically Challenged

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I have now tested this game with several different groups of friends, and several times it's almost killed me! You'd be shocked what a group of 30-somethings might draw for the topic "Humpty Dumpty". Really, I think this is a great deal more fun than other competitive drawing games and gives you MUCH more leeway to be creative and have a good time. A perfect party game.

We played this game at Thanksgiving and everyone was able to join in! From the youngest (age 6) to the eldest (60), they all loved it! The play is really simple- you select a card with an item on it and everyone has to anonimously draw the person/ place/ thing/ idea. Then you draw another card with an adjective on it and vote whose drawing best depicts the criteria. (ie. Which drawing looks like the artist didn't know what they were doing?) The object of the game is not to be the best artist, so having a range of interpretations and artistic ability made it even better. At a very affordable price point, your family CAN'T afford to pass up this good time.

My family loves this game - even though rated for ages 10 and up, my eight year old has no problem playing (we skip subjects like "DNA"). There really is no artistic skill needed - even plays better when a few of us aren't very good. We've played with as little as four people and modified it to as many as ten - every time has been so much fun and sometimes makes you laugh until you cry!!

We played this with a another family (8 of us) with kids age 8 and above. It was a riot. It was loads of fun and had us all laughing. I'm buying it for two other families I know and myself. Loved it!

You don't have to be an artist. Once you draw your picture (in 45 seconds) the next step is to select a category card. This card tells you how the artwork will be judged. If the category card says "used the most graphite" then the person with the most pencil marks "wins" that point. Some of the category cards were quite fun and since you don't know what the category is before you draw, this evens the playing field for the non-artist types.

This game is SO much fun!!!! It is a drawing game that does not require you to be anywhere near a good artist. How it works is, you pick one card to draw, for instance, one card we picked said "Noah's ark reject. Then, you have 1 minute to draw. All players place their drawings face down on the table. Then, the next card is picked and it may say "Looks most like it was drawn with the opposite hand". Everybody votes on which drawing fits that description and the drawing with the most votes wins. It is such a fun game and can get pretty silly. It is fun for ages 8 and up and is a great party game too!

My 14-year-old son received this as a Christmas gift. What a time we've had! I highly recommend this game for families who have a rough time finding an "everyone can play" game. We've played with ages 7-65. Perfect party game. Lots of laughs!

Hands down, one of our family's favorite games. We have played this with many different age groups from 5 to 85. And anyone can win! Buy this game!!!

I had got this game for my sister for x-mas. Our family is huge on board games, especially games like pictonary and cranium. This game looked like so much fun I had to get it. We had a ball playing, the craziness and randomness of our pictures is priceless , we all have different drawing styles, and we were all equally good at this game. The only down side of this game is the overall way you supposed to play, they have colored chips and a color voting wheel, to try and keep it anonymous. I can see in large groups maybe that could work, but in a group of 4 you pretty know whose is whose. Its not like it made the game any less fun, we just left that part out and still had a great time. Just to mention this game is still very fun no matter how bad your drawing skills are, I use stick figures and still won a few lol

I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. We've played this game with kids as young as 7 and adults in their 60s. Everyone enjoyed it and everyone had a chance to win - no real artistic talent is required. Cleverness helps - drawings based on funny word play sometimes get the votes! But sometimes the worst drawings have the advantage. Categories include descriptions such as "best use of white space" or "looks like a mess the cat made" and are applied to topics such as "ballerina," "rubber duckie," or "caboose." Categories are not known until after the topic is sketched. Everyone draws on each turn and everyone votes.

This game truly doesn't matter if you're a good artist or not. It was quite fun and can be played in large groups with varying ages. We played it at an extended family get-together and both adults and kids had fun.