As I said, the elements are all very pleasing, however for a party game it can be very isolating and thinky. What I can say is what my mum said, “its not really in the same league as King Domino, is it?”Īs far as SDJs go, it does tick a lot of the traditional winner’s boxes it’s an entry level, simple, family game with a fun/unusual component. I’ve not played either of the other nominations, so can’t really speak to whether it should have won. It was the 2019 Spiel Des Jahre winner, beating out the equally word based Werewords, and L.A.M.A, an Uno style card game. Just One seems to fall, unfortunately, into the former category. There are some games which people struggle with in social situations, Spy Fall for example can reduce people to a mute confusion, while other people lie with such mendacity you worry for your own safety. For whatever reason, we did not find the normal joy in Just One that we do in Pictionary, Articulate or Telestrations, with the usual “I’m sorry that is NOT what a dog looks like” or “How could you not get Blue Tit!!” Telestrations, on the other hand, we played endlessly over Christmas, to much hilarity. I then played it at a dinner party and, again, rubbish score. Maybe it was just us, we kept going a bit obscure on the clue in hopes that no-one else would pick it, which only led to the first player being utterly baffled. Our copy of Pictionary went on every family holiday with us, but we were rubbish at Just One. You then have to work out the word from their brilliant, but obscure clues. Any repeats are discarded and then these clues are shown to the first player. The other players then secretly write something related on their white board stands, then compare words. With Just One, the card is placed on a pleasing white board stand and you pick a number from 1-5, which will communicate the word to your group. Just One is a party game where, in true parlor game fashion, you get a card with a word on it and your friends have to communicate it to you. You don't see the same drawings twice, and nobody cares if their descriptions are accurate or silly because the whole point is to have fun.Designed by Ludovic Rody and Bruno Sutter Now you have to make a conscious decision, do you make the RIGHT guess or the FUNNY guess? It's a little bit of a buzz kill.Įat Poop You Cat solves both these problems by eliminating scoring and having you pass pictures in a circle. So you might see a picture which looks like someone playing tennis in the kitchen - that's pretty silly isn't it? What could it be? But wait, 3 turns ago you were drawing "Daddy Makes The Best Waffles" so, oops - you already know the correct answer. Also, the gameplay makes it so you see the same drawings over and over. Scribblish is bad because it only has 6 drawing kits, so you can't play with a large group. But Telestrations encourages you to think inside the box and guess something mundane, like "Ice skating" or "Winter" because it's the only way to score points. You might be inclined to guess something like "Mommy only takes us ice skating when she's drunk", which would make the game fun. You might see a drawing of a family on an ice skating rink, but the woman looks surprisingly distraught, like she hates her kids. Telestrations is bad because it adds a scoring system which rewards mundane guesses. It's a game you can play for free and imho it's better than both of these. Ignore Telestrations and Scribblish, and just get some pencil/paper and look up Eat Poop You Cat.
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