To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Our first impressions were that we’d have to get our thinking caps on and we found that very exciting. I did find it educational; it helped us adults to find ways of describing words and meaning that the children would understand. If you do not allow these cookies, some of the functionality will not be available to you on the site.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. You need to get your team to guess as many words you are describing as quickly as possible before the sand timer finishes. We will use your data to personalise and improve your experience on our digital platforms and to send you relevant products and offers we think you'll love. The classes Entertainment and culture and Sayings and quotes have special explanations, meaning that the first card contains a hint related to the word, and in the second card, the word to be explained is part of a saying or quote and the word to be explained is replaced, for example, with the word "beep". By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform.The aim of the game is to be first the team to cross the finish line by correctly guessing the words on the cards. I feel that this game really makes you think about what to describe/say to your teammate because if the word was Christmas pudding you would not be able to describe it as “This is a desert you have on Christmas” so then it does challenge you and you also have the timer running in the background. Alias contains thousands of words to explain and guess, so the game will not be exhausted in a long time.

Alias is a must especially for school children, students and all those who want to practice their language skills whilst having fun at the same time. With 1,800 words about UK sports, culture history and much more, this game is perfect for the whole family.The Mum Diaries is a blog which shares local events during school holidays to help entertain children. Overall this product is 5 stars; from as it is present to how easy it is to set up to how fun is to play with the bonus that it is educational. Explanation mistakes (meaning the explainer uses the word to be explained, part of it, or a derivative of it), and words passed over without being guessed take points away.

But I would like to see one more option: more categories of words, like medicine, business, sex and so on. The hugely popular Alias game contains 3 200 words to explain and to guess, so the game will not be exhausted for a long time.

After our round though, the other team claimed that "Filet Mignon" is not a correct guess, since the word was "Filet", which means something different than Filet Mignon. Once the items have been dispatched through our service provider your item will take 1-2 working days to arrive. The game really made us all use more brain power, whether we were guessing the words or describing them.