Guesstures Game

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In 2008, Parker Brothers & Hasbro re-released this excellent game of charades from 1990. Guesstures needs very little explanation beyond “charades with a timer” but that would just gloss the surface and would fail to capture some of the things that makes this version of charades Major Fun.

Most mini-games in Cranium are divided into two rounds, first for the children and second for the adults. Point values are doubled for the adults' rounds. The timer is the most obvious device of the game so let’s start there. Shaped like a clapperboard that you associate with directors marking the beginning of a scene, the Guesstures timer is hand-wound and holds 4 cards along the top. The cards are words the player is trying to get his or her team to guess. The player starts a round of play by snapping the timer closed (“ Guesstures, scene one, take two!”) This starts the timer. As the timer winds down, the cards drop out of sight. The player tries to get his or her teammates to guess the word before it drops out of reach. When the timer has run out (about 15 seconds) the team keeps any cards they guessed correctly. Divide players into two separate teams. It’s okay if a team has 1 more player than the other if there is an odd amount of players. Colour Coded Multiplayer: The first two seasons had one red team and one yellow team, their shirts colored accordingly. From Season 3, the families in the audience wore matching colored shirts; they wear either red, blue, orange, green, or yellow.

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Celebrity Edition: The fifth season featured celebrities like Jon Heder playing alongside the families. A new actor is chosen for the next turn and so on, until all players have had their chance at acting. If one team has an extra player, choose a player on the other team to take a second turn at acting while the extra player takes their turn. Many of the games, including Yahtzee Bowling, Sorry! and the re-designed Crazy Cash round for Season 3. The timing device is especially effective because not only does it mark the end of the round, it also dishes out the “punishment” for a player who takes too long. No one needs to watch the timer. If the card is there, you can try to grab it. If it’s not you gotta move on. Rounds are very fast which gives everyone time to play.

Guess Who?: The toss-up game, played much like the "Fame Game" questions from Sale of the Century. Todd gives clues as to the identity of a celebrity or fictional character, and the first team to buzz in with the correct answer wins the first Crazy Cash Card choice and the right to go first or second in the first game. If the buzzing team answers wrong, their opponents win. Was demoted in Season 2. Spin-Off: Scrabble Flash was removed from the game rotation for Season 2, mainly because it got moved to Scrabble Showdown. Close, keep guessing - Spin your hands in a circular motion imitating a spinning wheel towards a person who is close to correct guess https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqIA9mkHZ2I Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Guesstures from Hasbro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqIA9mkHZ2I) Frequently Asked Questions How long is the timer for Guesstures? One player from the team takes a card and has a limited amount of time (usually 1 minute) to act out the words or phrases on the card. The other players on the team must try to guess the words or phrases before the time runs out.Draw the first 4 blue cards from the card box. Look at your cards and decide which words you want to act out. Cranium Guesstimator: Basically the educated guess questions from Card Sharks, with the kids and adults playing four questions each. You may select any combination of 1-point and 3- point words (two 1-point words and two 3-point words, etc).. The 3-point words are more difficult to act out and will consume more of those precious seconds!

Most commonly, the actor is allowed to make any gestures other than blatantly spelling out the word Then use the crayon to enter your total score under your team's name next to "Scene 1" on the Mimer-Timer. Try a new way to play Guesstures! Instead of dividing into teams, take turns being Actors while the rest of the players all shout out their guesses. Guesstures has been around for over 30 years! It has gained so much popularity that there is even a giant version of the game played by celebrities on “The Ellen Degeneres Show”!

The actor cannot move on to another word until someone guesses the first word or it’s grabbed by the timer! Minigame Game: Similar to The Price Is Right, each episode of this show includes numerous distinctive games, which mostly are adaptations of Hasbro board games. Cranium Brain Break: The new opening game from Season 2 onward replacing Guess Who?. Teams perform stunts similar to those featured on Double Dare (1986). The team with the most points wins.

The Announcer: Bur ton Richa rdson for Seasons 1-2. Stacey J. Aswad replaced him at the beginning of Season 3, Andrew Kishino (who had previously worked for The Hub as a voice actor for G.I. Joe: Renegades) took over for the final two seasons. Almost everyone enjoys a party game, especially one that is fast and exciting! These Guesstures rules will teach you how much fun you can have with your family and friends as you race the timer to become the team with the highest score! The first variant of Cranium Star Performer is divided into four rounds, with point values of 10-20-30-40 apiece respectively. The actor will now wind up the timer and press down the timer’s arm to start the countdown. They will now immediately have their team guess as many of the words as possible, starting with the leftmost word on the timer, as this card will be the first to be removed! You may use classic charade gestures such as pulling your ear for “sounds like” and tapping your arm with your fingers to show how many syllables the word has.

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Connect Four Basketball: ...With the "pieces" replaced by balls that are thrown into the chutes on top. The first produced episode featured a slightly different variant where players from both teams shot their balls at the same time; three rounds were played and the team winning two rounds won the game. Now it's time for an Actor from the other team to Guessture! The new Actor follows Steps 1 through 5. Props or other "visual aids" are allowed. You may point to parts of the body, other people in the room, objects in the room, etc. The first actor for the team draws 4 cards of any difficulty. They decide which one out of the two words on each card they would like to have their team guess this turn. Similar to Catch Phrase and Charades, players will divide into two teams and take turns acting out words, but there is a twist! Each word acted out is placed on a timer; if your team does not guess the word in time, the timer will eat the card, making it no longer available to your team!