Colourbrain: Award-Winning Simple Family Board Game

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The original Codenames is a breakout party game that’s been a hit with both board game hobbyists and family gamers alike. You lay out a grid of word cards, divide into two teams, and one player on each team takes the role of clue-giver, who knows which cards on the grid “belong” to each team. The catch is they’re only allowed to think up one-word clues to link as many cards as they can together for their team-mates to guess. As an alternative, you can have a single team playing co-operatively to see how fast they can guess all the clues. Sound easy? Well, it might be if not for the fact that you’re playing under a spell of silence. You’re not allowed to tell your fellow players what cards you’ve got. That makes it a whole lot harder… and massively more exciting when you achieve it! You have to look at what's currently on the board, and what's in your hand, and make a judgment as to what will help get the group closer to being able to match all the piles, and when you've correctly guessed which way the wind is blowing, it's so satisfying for everyone. The original boxset (called simply Colourbrain) has the most questions at 300 but is catering for all age groups so some … Choosing from a selection of colour cards, players must answer a question with either one card or a combination of two or three cards to answer a plethora of Disney based questions. Being the first to place your cards down and shouting ColourBrain starts a 15 second countdown for the remaining players to get their answers in. Getting the answer right doesn’t guarantee you victory or points in a round since your score is determined by the number of teams or players who get the question wrong. So if everyone is correct, nobody scores and a point is carried to the next question, if two are correct and two are incorrect then the the victorious two players/teams get two points each. Still Shrinkwrapped… It’s not just pop culture questions either, this is where the Junior version bridges the gap between Disney and grown up versions. There’s an excellent range of entertaining general knowledge questions too, for example: An Elephant eating candy floss? A flamingo juggling walnuts? Or a donkey holding a bottle of Sprite?! Each card lets you know how many colours you need (in the above cases 2), and gets brains, old and young, whirring trying to figure out the answers. Colour charts

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Although, each team also possess a Colour Capture Card that allows them once per game to temporarily steal at the eleventh hour several colours at random from an opposing player/team’s colour palette before they answer the next question, thus hamstringing their likelihood of correctly answering. Each player of team also gets a power card to use, when they are losing to severely limit the leading teams options and give them a chance to catch up. Because the questions are greatly varied across different themes and categories every player feels involved and has a good chance to compete. A relatively new name to the board game establishment, Bananagrams is a bit like Scrabble but much better because it comes in a banana pouch. The only element of this game I didn’t understand entirely was the steal. It made no sense to me, personally. As the last place team, you can steal eight cards from the first place team. That’s all well and good, but logistically it didn’t work every time. If there were two points up for grabs, and one team on nine and another on eight, either could win. I target the leaders who know nothing about Tangled and I’ve lost regardless.

Each team has eleven Colour Cards in their hand. To answer the question, work out which colour to put down. Can you remember the colour of the jewel in Princess Jasmine's hairband? Or the five colours of the Incredibles' suits? Great online store for board games. They always arrive perfectly and undamaged which is important to me. Includes questions from over 20 different Disney films, from 'The colour of Scar's mane' to 'The feather in Captain Hook's hat' to 'The buttons on Olaf the Snowman'. Perfect for families with kids. Built for one to four teams of one to three players per team, the box suggests a player age of 8 plus. In reality you can play (as we did) with players under 8. The key challenge is hand size (never thought I’d say that), little ones understand the questions and likely know more answers than their parents given the source material but will struggle to effectively “fan” the eleven colour cards and find the appropriate ones inside the 15 second pressure timer after the first player lands their cards. Simple concept but effective for the family.

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Apart from a few very subtle tweaks across the editions, all follow the same ruleset: read a card out aloud to all teams; each team determines what colour or colours to answer using 11 differently coloured cards before the correct answer is revealed; and points (or groans) allocated. Colourbrain aims to be the quiz for those who aren’t good at quizzes. It does this by handing you all the answer cards in the form of 11 colour cards. Helpfully these are coloured and written on so that there is no debate about what colour a card is. Perhaps the biggest difference in this junior version of the game is that it only facilitates two players or teams. It’s head to head if you will. But this allows for a simpler method of scoring. The winning player or team simply take the card, first to 10 cards wins. It also allows for a softer scoring system whereby the closest answer wins the card. It still retains the colour capture system though so the trailing team have that one chance to catch up.Can you remember the colours of the four Teletubbies? ( There were four wasn’t there?) How about the shirt colour of Woody from Toy Story? Giving and guessing clues can be as creative as your imagination will go. This Disney version replaces the words with characters and places from Disney classics. There are words on one side and pictures on the other so it can be enjoyed across all ages. Despite being the edition with the most questions, the three subsequent editions usefully added the number of colours required for the answer on the question side, the original doesn’t have this.

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The age recommendation for Junior ColourBrain is 6+. Disney ColourBrain is recommended for 8+. My personal opinion is that those recommendations should be the other way around. My 5 year old daughter loves the Disney version (and regularly destroys me at it!) whereas some of the questions in Junior left her a little flummoxed.

Again, it can take a while to get all the way to the grand finale but the euphoria of having sussed it out way before anyone else will be enough to keep you going. As board game rulesets go, it’s wonderfully uncomplicated, and totally inclusive for kids and adults alike, that is until you get questions that require a certain cultural, historic or geographic knowledge. In terms of quality, the colour cards are large, weighty in comparison to a standard playing card and have a thread material with gloss finish. Game cards are clearly illustrated and show both the logo of the film from which the question originated as well as the number of colours needed to answer, on the flip side a high quality image from the film depicting the answers. Game cards are much smaller at around 50% of the size of a colour card and notably more delicate. Before the carnage starts ….