Articulate! Phrases by Drumond Park is a fun game for a gathering of friends or family. Perfect for any holiday season. The beauty is, it’s played as two teams, and between four and twenty or more players can all play at once, so great for a crowd. And it can get pretty raucous. With elements of charades and Catch-Phrase the aim is simply for each team to get around the board first. However, to progress, they must guess the well-known phrases which members of their team describe to them – and they must beat the clock.
The game has 500 phrase cards covering 3,000 topics, and real enthusiasts can even buy an extra card set, so it will keep giving for years. Recommended age is 12 years and up. So if you love using phrases such as ‘Shaken but not stirred’ or ‘Don’t rock the boat’ this game could be for you. I can see it becoming very addictive.
RSP £32.99 Stockists include; Amazon, Argos, WHSmith, Entertainer and Independents
And if younger members want to join in the fun, how about Puff Ball? Recommended age is 6+ years, but I think there’ll be plenty of ‘big kids’ elbowing the youngsters out of the way for this game. Fortunately, two or more participants can play at once.
The game consists of cups which are linked by special connecters to create unique tracks. A ball is placed in the first cup and then the player needs to blow the ball into the next cup, and so on. The first player to get the ball into the last cup of the track is the winner.
There are four different Puff Ball sets – from Level 1 (starter) to Level 4 (extreme). Level 1 includes four cups, plus a bridge and a hoop for special stunt shots. At the other extreme, Level 4 contains twenty-two cups plus lots of stunts, such as the seesaw, the staircase and the ski jump. Each player can design their own track but their tracks must each contain the same number of cups and stunts to make the race fair.
RSP £9.99 Level 1; £14.99 Level 2; £19.99 Level 3; £24.99 Level 4.
Stockists include; Amazon, Smyths, Entertainer, Argos, Tesco, Shop Direct, John Lewis and Independents
By Dr K Thompson, author of From Both Ends of the Stethoscope: Getting through breast cancer – by a doctor who knows
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