Guesstures

I had the opportunity recently to play my sister, among others, in a hot game of Guesstures.

"Guesstures turns up the heat on the tired (Tired??!) game of charades with a few modernizations.
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Good, quick pantomiming is still the thing, but now teams need to act out and guess four words in a matter of seconds.
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Pop four cards into the Mimer-Timer, then set it and start acting fast!....."
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Please note: "Fast!"
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"The words may look easy, (no, no they don't) but you only have a few seconds to get your team to guess each one.
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Did your team guess right?..."
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Look here at Patti - can you guess her word? Quick! You have just a few seconds.....

Got it?. . .
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Mustache!
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Now Marji here looks like her word might be armpit. Or teapot. Or angryblackwoman. Quick, can you guess her word?
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.... you in the back, got it?
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Yep! Friends. Her word was friends. Now it's so obvious, isn't it? Of course not!! It's retarded! You can't act out a word in just a few seconds, it's all a plot to make you look stupid! (sorry, Marj)
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See?!
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I just look stupid. You can't guess my word! My word was probably nuclear or something.
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I have one card left standing. Each card has a word and you have four cards per turn. If my animated, extremely interested partners (like Lisa here) can't guess my word in time, the machine will eat my card and I move on to the next.
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"...When the game's over, will your team have enough points to win the trophy for Best Performance?..."
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Based on this photo.... ummm.... I'm guessing not.
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Guesstures is fun, really. The time pressure is a bit much for me, gets my anxiety level up, but otherwise, is a great game. Well, except for the words. I found the words a little odd, a little hard to act out. So. hmmm. Maybe I just liked having fun with family.
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For 4 or more players, ages 8 and up.
Contents: 1 timer, 378 cards, 1 trophy (you know it) and instructions.

I received absolutlely nothing in exchange for my review in this blog. I played the game and reported it to you for fun. Nobody is rubbing money in my palms and nobody is pointing a gun at my head.

But, hey, think what you want.