McNeill Designs for Brighter Minds Games {Review and giveaway}
McNeill Designs thinks it is important for children (and adults to have fun while they are learning. With that idea in mind, they have developed You’ve Been Sentenced.
Each player gets 10 cards to come up with silly, funny and laugh-out-loud sentences. The deck of cards has 540 pentagon shaped cards with over 2500 words making billions of possible combinations of silliness.
Not only do you make silly and fun sentences, but your fellow players act as a jury. They get to vote on whether or not they think the sentence makes sense and is allowed to score. The words are all ranked with different points, too. So some sentences are worth a lot more points than others.
In addition to the 540 cards in the game, there are also 5 add on packs of cards: Sports Highlights, Sci-Fi Fantasy, Gourmet Cuisine, Pop Culture and Word Power Challenge. The addition of these decks make the possibilities for the game endless.
Since my kiddos aren’t quite to the reading age, yet, we put it to the test when my sister visited. Now, I can see how this game could get rowdy even with adults (especially with the addition of some wine or other adult beverages). Just look at the example sentence my sister made and some of the word options that are in the decks. We had a fun time questioning ourselves and our sentence making abilities, too.
Twisted Fish was a little more of challenge for us. Maybe we were tired after playing You’ve Been Sentenced, but the rules just weren’t meshing with our tired brains. It’s a twist on “Go Fish” where you can switch cards, switch hands and more. I would like to see a sort of color coded cheat-sheet or something to go with this to summarize the directions as they need to be consulted often.
Overall, I’m all for any games that make learning fun, and these definitely did. I think they would make a great addition to any home with kids and adults.
Buy it: You’ve Been Sentenced and Twisted Fish can be purchased at Amazon for $22.75 and $7.99, respectively.
Win It: McNeill Designs for Brighter Minds would like to give one (1) lucky Really, Are You Serious? reader You’ve Been Sentenced with the 5 add on card packs as well as the Twisted Fish Game.
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Another item is the Wheel of Chore-ture.
I would like the Wheel of Chore-ture.
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There are also quite a few different add on packs for you've been sentenced.
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The Readers Digest add on pack would be fun
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The Wheel of Chore-ture looks cool! Great idea!
I found out they are sold nearby at a Trendy Teacher store.
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I learned that You've Been Sentenced" will now go online and into classrooms with the help of Technology Based Learning and Research and Arizona Technology Enterprises.
I remember playing those games a few years back with my sister, they truly are food for mind. GREAT POST!
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I like the sentence game- looks fun (but the chore one is a great idea!!!) breejanderson@gmail.com
i think the twisted fish is adorable.
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I learned that they are working on a teen version of "You've Been Sentenced" called "Sentence Me!" which has hip-hop lingo and popular terms.
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