Product Description

You never know what section of your brain you're gonna exercise with Cranium! Four wacky card decks will challenge you to think in ways you never dreamed possible. You'll draw with your eyes closed and sculpt clay with Creative Cat. Word Worm will have you spelling backwards and guessing definitions, and you'll hum a tune with Star Performer. Data Head will test your knowledge of uncommon facts and provocative true-and-false questions. Game includes Cranium board, 800 outrageous Cranium cards covering 30 diverse subjects, 10-sided Cranium die, a tub of Cranium clay, timer, custom pads and pencils, rules and 4 game pieces. Expand the game with Cranium Booster Box 1-adds 800 cards, sold separately. For 4 or more players, ages 13 and up. Made in USA.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1124 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Cranium
• Model: 101010000.100E
• Dimensions: 10.60" h x 10.60" w x 3.10" l, 4.55 pounds

Features

• The original award-winning board game
• Sketch, sculpt, solve puzzles, act and hum and answer questions
• Perfect for parties, reunions, after dinner, vacations
• Each game lasts about an hour
• To win the game, teams have to make it to Cranium Central--the large purple brain in the center of the board--and then successfully complete one activity from each of the four decks.

Amazon Review
Spell a word backwards, hum a tune, answer a multiple-choice question, draw with your eyes closed, and more when you play Cranium. Unlike games that focus on only a few skills, Cranium offers 14 talent-tapping activities designed to bring out the best in you and your friends.

Cranium offers 14 talent-tapping activities designed to bring out the best in you and your friends.

Cards from four decks, color-coded to match each of the crazy characters--Star Performer, Creative Cat, Data Head, and Word Worm--describe activities that teams must complete in order to advance around the board. If you choose a Sculptorades card from the Creative Cat deck, for example, you might be asked to sculpt a hamburger from lemon-scented Cranium Clay while your teammates try to guess what you're creating.

To win the game, teams have to make it to Cranium Central--the large purple brain in the center of the board--and then successfully complete one activity from each of the four decks. The result is that the team with the best combination of abilities comes out on top.

With its wonderfully diverse set of activities and top-notch design (artwork by illustrator Gary Baseman decorates the colorful board and decks of cards), Cranium offers the best of all board game experiences--and it's a whole lot of fun, too! (For 4 or more players)

Teacher Review
This multifaceted, activity-based game utilizes many different skills. During the highly social gameplay, each player can choose an activity that challenges them in one of four different skill sets: creative, performance, linguistic, and practical. Depending on which type of activity the player chooses, they will be challenged to such tasks as sculpting a hamburger, unscrambling a word, whistling a popular song, or answering a multiple choice question. Players will typically choose the skill they have the most aptitude for, but a more challenging way to play might be to have the activity chosen at random. --M. Sullivan, Amazon.com editor and former schoolteacher

Amazon.com
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!

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

Love it, love it, love it!
I was a little nervous to get this game after reading reviews saying it was "too easy." Granted, there are some very easy questions, but these are mixed in with a majority of moderate questions, and a sprinkling of stumpers. My kids, ages 8 and 11, loved this game more than any we've ever played. That is because they could finally actively contribute to the competition! Rather than feeling like the team's liability, they were made to feel like a valuable asset. That alone was worth the rather steep price tag. I was a little worried how the game would fare with a group comprised only of adults, but it was a hit at our Christmas party! Everyone loved it and wanted to know where I had found it. The funniest part was when our church-leader had to sculpt "nipples." The tears were rolling down his wife's face, she was laughing so hard. That particular example of a question is not the norm for this game. By that, I mean this game is a great way to draw the kids and adults together for family fun.

A blast!!
My family got this game last year for a late Christmas gift. We played it over the summer, and before I went back to school I bought one for myself. The different categories of questions make it fun and interesting to play. It takes the best parts of many different games, like Pictionary, Name that Tune, Charades, trivia questions and word games. My only advice when playing is to make sure that shyer people are on teams with more extroverted people, otherwise it can get boring. Playing with my friends once all the "mathematical" people(engineers) were on one team and the more "creative" people were on the other. It took forever to get through and wasn't terribly interesting. When there's a nice mix however, the game goes quickly, and is a lot of fun. There are some difficult questions in there, mostly some trivia questions and the "Humdingers" which have you hum a song. Occasionally there are some people who you may not know either. But it isn't any more difficult than Pictionary or Taboo, a wide age range can play at the same time and enjoy the game, and everyone can have fun. If you like group games like Taboo, Guesstures or Pictionary, you'll love Cranium...and the more the merrier!

Anyone can play
I purchased this game after hearing about it from a friend. We took it home for the holidays and played non-stop for hours with the entire family. Then we brought it over to a friend's house.

There are four basic categories, each of which bring out a certain skill set. There is the green catagory where you have to act like a famous person, play charades, or hum a song.

The blue category challenges your art skills - either drawing like pictionary, or with your eyes shut, or sculpting something out of clay.

The red catagory is very similar to a trivia game and the yellow category is for everyone who aced English class in high school! It involves spelling words both forward and backwards and choosing the correct definition for a word.

This game brings out the hidden talents in all of us. I especially like the clay (it comes included). No other game I've come across lets you sculpt the answer in clay. We fight over who gets to do the sculpting every time!