Colourbrain: Award-Winning Simple Family Board Game | Best Christmas Board Game for Families and Adults

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So, if the question was “What colours are the Olympic rings?” the newer editions would tell you that you need to answer 5 colours, the older edition wouldn’t provide this useful clue. It’s a minor niggle but it’s a valued design addition to the sequels.

That’s the core concept for Colourbrain (or Colorbrain as our letter-efficient transatlantic cousins call it) from Big Potato Games, where Players compete individually, or in teams to recall the colours of things– well-known brands, film & TV characters and other commonplace objects in the hope of being the first to reach 10 points.A great general knowledge wordy game for the whole family is P for Pizza. So simple to play, you have to think of something in each category beginning with a specified letter. A scientist beginning with T or a type of hat beginning with M? Think of a fast-paced scrabble game, without the confines of a board, and the freedom to mess up your letters and start again. Bananagrams is played simultaneously by players sitting around the table with 200 letter tiles. Starting with just a handful of tiles each player creates their own mini crossword. As soon as a player has “legally” laid all of their tiles they shout “peel” and everyone needs to draw two more. The game continues with the frantic grabbing of letters, with each player hoping not to grab the “K” or “V” These seem more difficult to place than an “X” or “Z”! Once all 200 tiles have been taken and lair scoring is dependent on the total number of words created (horizontally and vertically) There are some practical issues to consider, the first being time. At the most, just 50 minutes are available. Games need to be able to “hit the ground running”, with a minimal set-up time. Most teenagers would prefer just to get on with something rather than spending a quarter of an hour reading the set-up conditions. Together, we've built a great community since we opened in August 2019. Twist is a truly unique space for Plymouth. We really want to see everyone again when we reopen, but are conscious the pandemic may have made a visit to Twist less financially feasible for some. If we successfully reach our target, we'll be creating a Community Fund. Irrespective of which version you settle on, there really are minimal components which makes it perfect for holidays or when in transit (on rail, ferry or flight). To travel light, you could do away with the box, pop a pile of question cards in an elastic band along with the colour cards and hey presto – low fi Colourbrain holiday version.

Within a quarter of an hour, I had been roped into a game. Here is the difficulty that I faced. Should I play my normal strategic game with a focus of grinding out a win, or should I keep it light and fun to keep things moving?

Admittedly some of the questions are deliberately guesswork and destined to gnaw away at you – “Cripes, what IS the colour of the entertainment wedge in the original Trivial Pursuit? Damn my failing memory..” The original boxset (called simply Colourbrain) has the most questions at 300 but is catering for all age groups so some … This seems to be very popular with the girls in the board game club. Perhaps they are just more observant than the boys?

You’ll learn about modern board games and their mechanics, modify and expand existing games, before being guided through designing your very own simple card, dice or roll & write game. You can claim everything at once and make an afternoon/evening of it, or pop in several times over the two weeks. Family Bundle - OK Play, P for Pizza, Dino Dump, The Muddles, Junior Colourbrain & a potato plushie Sweet Bubble Waffle + scoop of Yarde Farm ice cream + your choice of 3 toppings + cream + sauce of your choice One of our favourite games publishers, Big Potato have given us THREE games bundles to give away as part of the Crowdfunder:From day one we've had a room set aside to refurbish into a full, dedicated kitchen. In March 2020, the little kitchen downstairs was really beginning to reach its limit. We'd been saving up hard and were about to get started on the new kitchen. Then, well, the rest is history... Colourbrain Junior (120 questions) and Disney Colourbrain (250 questions) are primarily pitched at kids, with Colourbrain mini (120 questions) a self-contained travel edition or question expansion to the original. These skills are all vital for pupils in the world of work so why not select games that might encourage these aspects in a personality to come to the fore? Colourbrain crosses countries in its scope. Some questions such as “What are the colours on the Swedish flag?” [yellow and blue] may be known by some. “What colour comes before amber in a traffic light sequence?” [green] will need a little UK knowledge. The components are just a series of colour cards and set of questions. Whilst cardboard components are hard-wearing, wooden or resin pieces have a longevity. This means they will remain intact despite relatively robust play. Any games selected should have components such that the game will last. I am not saying that all pupils do not look after games, but certainly, some gamers have a somewhat protective feel of their personal games. Teenagers at school may not feel the same emotional attachments! Educational