Customer Reviews

What were you Thinking? Its not whether you win or lose, it's how you think the same.

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Played this when visiting my son and his wife. Cards ask questions anyone can answer. No embarrassment like in Trivia Pursuit when you just don't know the answer. Here you try to match other player's anwers - some amaze you and most are quite funny. Plan to buy this game myself!

WWYT! and Balderdash are two of the best inspiring and creative party games I've ever played. Everyone is asked a question ("Name five things you associate with circuses"), writes down their answers, and score based on matches. The fun comes with questions that no one thinks they can answer (such as four male computer geeks being asked "Name five things you associate with beauty parlors"), questions you're pressured to get right (what would **you** put as the fifth answer for "Name five directions"?), and opinion questions ("Ginger or Mary Anne?" and "Who's your favorite Beatle?"). Simple rules, high entertainment, and excellent replay value make this a game I highly recommend.

We are having more outloud fun around the table with this game! Perfect for adults and teens to play together. And the more the merrier! The best part is ... it has multilayered cards (much like Trivial Pursuit) so you won't burn up all the question choices in just a few rounds of play.

We played this game with 4 adults, 3 teenagers, 2 early teenagers, and a 10 year old. It was a brand new game to all of us but we found the directions very easy to follow. We got started quickly and in short time were having a lot of fun with some pretty funny words that came up. The object is to write down what comes to your mind when you hear the topic or category the game gives the group, and what you think other players will think of. Points are earned by the number of people who wrote down the same words you did. The person with the least amount of points in that round gets a penalty card for thinking too individualistically. This is an easy, fun, family or friend game whose cost is really reasonable.

Me and my friends played this and had a blast. The point is to write down answers that are the same as everyone else's. It's funny when other people write down answers they're sure you will too, except you don't, because you think no one else will. Or when you put down a crazy, off-the-wall answer you're sure no one else will think of, and someone does. The question was "Write down five words that come to mind when you think of Lincoln." Me and my friend both wrote down "Kindergarten Cop". The number of answers you write depends on the question, and the questions range from ones where it's nearly impossible to come up with all the responses asked for to ones where so many things come to mind it's difficult to choose. Most of them are pretty amusing, as are the things written on the cards given out to the person with the least number of points. Best of all, when one person gets to 8 cards, everyone else wins. It's a great way to pass the time and see how alike you are.

By the way, the 1 star for educational only means you don't learn much from this game. After all, the point is to put the same answer as everyone else, not nessecarily the right one.

Our family loves What Were You Thinking?! We play it often when we get together, and it has two really great attributes. The first is that all ages can play equally well. Kids don't suffer embarrassement because they don't know as much as adults, and adults don't look dumb for not being up-to-date on current pop trends. The second terrific aspect is that you get to know others in this game. If someone is newer to the group their personality is revealed in their answers. We play where everyone is encouraged to answer the questions as outrageously and funnily as they can. My son is so humorous, and his answers never match up with anyone's so he "loses", but the game is much richer when he plays. Actually, most of the time we don't keep score or even finish the game, but just have a fabulous time together.

My family loves playing games. My sister bought What Were You Thinking several years ago and we still love playing it. Most of us are adults, but we often play with a couple children aged 10-12. You don't need any trivial knowledge for this game, just the ability to predict what other people might choose. They might ask "Name the best movie ever made." You have to choose a movie based on who else is playing and try to match their answers. This game has been unavailable so when I found it on Amazon, I bought it immediately. I can't wait to bring it to my in-laws house since they've never played it. It has a similar fun factor to Apples to Apples.

A friend of mine in college had this game and we would get together groups of people on weekends and decide to play What Were You Thinking. This game is a lot of fun and everyone was always wanting to play this game. Very enjoyable for groups of people. Don't have a party without it!

This game is great! Instead of the always "right and wrong" we are so used to in a board game; the answers depend on the people you are playing with. It's a great party game, and a great "getting to know you" game. It's even better when you play with people you DO know. To see if you can guess what their responses might be! I have bought two of them. Great gift.

This is a great game. I have played it with several different groups of people. This works particularly well with different ages and generations. It works well with large groups.