What is the world is Scribblish? Is it a type of language? Or is it a fancy new dessert dish? Perhaps a Scribblish is a newly discovered type of sea creature?
Scribblish is actually a fun game that your whole family will enjoy, both young and old.
Scribblish is kind of like a cross between Pictionary and the great classic game of “Telephone”. There is drawing involved however you do not need to be an artist to have fun with this game.
The game is super simple to do. Each player gets a plastic “scroll device” (for lack of a better description). Each player inserts a ling strip of paper which comes with the game into the plastic scroll device. Next each player picks a card. Each card has different phrases on them. For example the card might have these phrases on it.
– Mom’s in the Jungle, racing a snake.
– Witness a pillow fight on ice.
– Next Summer, I’m going to learn how to ______ (fill in the blank).
From the card you need to pick one phrase to work with. Without showing or telling anyone what your phrase is you need to write it down on the paper then scroll the paper up so that the phrase disappears inside the plastic scroll device. Next you need to draw a doodle (picture) of what the phrase says. For example, if I chose “Next Summer, I’m going to learn how to jet ski” I would probably draw some water, a jet ski with a person on it and perhaps a big sun (in hopes that people would know I meant summer).
Your drawing will then be passed on to another player. All they will see is your drawing, not your phrase. They will have to come up with what they think the phrase is based upon your drawing, then write the phrase down.
Everything gets passed along to another player who needs to read the phrase the other player wrote and draw a picture based upon it.
The game does have dice, a timer and you can keep score to see who wins. To be honest with you my family did away with those elements. We had fun just passing around the scroll devices and trying to come up with the phrases and drawings to go with them. Our son has a hard time drawing so we figured it was better to do it this way rather then frustrate him with a timer. Our daughter is also in advanced art and is very picky about her drawings and wants things to be “just right”, so she takes longer then the timer too. My husband and I don’ t mind. Its all in good fun.
I can’t tell you how crazy this game can get! Its amazing the things people can come up with. Even if you think you did a great job drawing its funny to see how easily people can misinterpret things.
The game is intended to be played with multiple people. It comes with four plastic scroll devices. I’m sure if you are creative you can come up with something that can do the same thing so that you can have more players. My kids actually played the game on their own too (just with each other).
Thankfully Scribblish comes with more then enough paper on the included pad. I’m sure its easy enough to cut up more paper if/when you run out.
This is not only a fun game to give as a gift but this would also be great to play during the holidays. This is a super fun party game which is sure to bring a lot of laughs. If my family can laugh hysterically at some of the crazy things we came up with imagine how much fun you’ll have with your family and friends.
I was SUPPOSE to review this game a long time ago but unfortunately my kids left the game at Grandpa’s house upstate and Grandpa & Grandma went on a two week vacation too. That is why it took a bit for me to post this review (hard to review the game when we don’t have it – LOL!).
Scribblish is found at many retail locations including Amazon, Target and Toys R Us and retails for around $20.00.
You can learn more about this game and other fun games by Cranium by visiting http://www.Hasbro.com/Cranium/en_US/.
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