Colourbrain: Award-Winning Simple Family Board Game

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This game based on the popular ride sees players as guests in the Haunted Mansion, trying to meet as many ghosts as possible. But the hitchhiking ghosts along for the ride can force the players to take haunt cards, and the player with the most when the game ends will lose a chunk of points. It's a great risk/reward balance. The only element of this game I didn’t understand entirely was the steal. It made no sense to me, personally. As the last place team, you can steal eight cards from the first place team. That’s all well and good, but logistically it didn’t work every time. If there were two points up for grabs, and one team on nine and another on eight, either could win. I target the leaders who know nothing about Tangled and I’ve lost regardless. Each player of team also gets a power card to use, when they are losing to severely limit the leading teams options and give them a chance to catch up. Because the questions are greatly varied across different themes and categories every player feels involved and has a good chance to compete. We’ve all got our favourites, but here’s a look at some fun board games that make for perfect family bonding time. Monopoly The age recommendation for Junior ColourBrain is 6+. Disney ColourBrain is recommended for 8+. My personal opinion is that those recommendations should be the other way around. My 5 year old daughter loves the Disney version (and regularly destroys me at it!) whereas some of the questions in Junior left her a little flummoxed.

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Despite being the edition with the most questions, the three subsequent editions usefully added the number of colours required for the answer on the question side, the original doesn’t have this. A new game which resurrects an old Disney classic: Hocus Pocus from 1993. It’s a co-operative card game and another hit from the team behind Disney: Villainous. Everyone gets a hand of potion ingredient cards, which they take turns playing into one of five piles on the game board. If all piles are of the same type or colour, you stun one of the witches, taking you a step toward victory. The second reason I would steer away from the original box is that of the 300 questions, I would expect only 60-70 that a 10 year might possibly know (literally just went through them all). Noted that the age on the box is 12+, and this is the rare case of a games publisher probably pitching it about right – although do be aware even 14 or 15 year olds won’t get a lot of the cultural, cinematic or musical references on the question cards.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. For all of the above reasons, unless you’re playing with adults or teaming younger players with adults my recommendation would be to go for the Junior or Disney versions – it’ll be more of a level playing field (or possibly weighted in their favour!).

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It’s not just pop culture questions either, this is where the Junior version bridges the gap between Disney and grown up versions. There’s an excellent range of entertaining general knowledge questions too, for example: An Elephant eating candy floss? A flamingo juggling walnuts? Or a donkey holding a bottle of Sprite?! Each card lets you know how many colours you need (in the above cases 2), and gets brains, old and young, whirring trying to figure out the answers. Colour charts Game length varies, but is probably around half an hour, so you don't need to commit a whole evening. It's a great game to play while you are waiting for people to join in with games night. Because you can play with up to 12 players, it's also ideal for parties.Split into teams of kids and grown-ups, then try to answer one of 250 crafty questions about the Disney Universe. FROM PETER PAN TO PIXAR: Includes questions from over 20 different Disney films, from “The colour of Scar’s mane” to “The feather in Captain Hook’s hat” to “The buttons on Olaf the Snowman”. Perfect for families with kids. It’s bank holiday weekend and while that usually means a trip outside to enjoy the expected sunshine, things are going to have to be a little bit different this time around. In addition to the colour cards, each player is armed with a capture card adding a further dynamic to gameplay. Only playable between rounds and only ever applied to the leader at that point in time, the capture card allows you to remove eight of the eleven cards in their hand effectively handicapping them on the next round. We found in practice that every player in rotation played it once someone reached 7-8 points causing some frustration for the leader. Effective in elongating playtime as-well as allowing players to catch a runaway player; it also had the unforeseen consequence of upsetting our 10 year old who thought she had the game in the bag only to be disabled by the family for her sister to then come from behind to win after three rounds.

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The Colourbrain game from Big Potato is a simple family trivia game where all the answers are colours. Players split into teams and each team is given 11 different EDITION coloured cards. Colourbrain is different from other quiz games because teams begin with all the potential answers in their hands. The game begins with a colour-related question. Teams choose which card (or cards) to play and the first team to do so shouts COLOUR BRAIN "colourbrain!" The other teams now have 10 seconds to follow suit. Our latest game review for Big Potato Games is Colour Brain - Disney Edition. Suitable for 2-12 players aged 8+, this is a question and answer game where every answer is a colour. Each player starts with 11 colour cards and uses one of the cards to answer a question related to a Disney film. So, for example, you’d use the green card when asked to identify the colour of Mike Wazowski . In terms of quality, the colour cards are large, weighty in comparison to a standard playing card and have a thread material with gloss finish. Game cards are clearly illustrated and show both the logo of the film from which the question originated as well as the number of colours needed to answer, on the flip side a high quality image from the film depicting the answers. Game cards are much smaller at around 50% of the size of a colour card and notably more delicate. Before the carnage starts ….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.

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There is also a Junior edition available if you have little ones who want to show off their knowledge. It’s fair to say that Disney have produced their fair share of movies. And bought their fair share of smaller companies to bring them under the Disney umbrella. In fact, most everything may be Disney in the future! For now, however, the wide selection is still incredibly vast… so does Disney Colourbrain cater to this wide palette of variety? Yes it does. And it does so with surprising reach! What’s more is how unfair it can feel. Eight cards out of eleven taken is effectively a guaranteed loss, right? We haven’t seen the game won on a steal round before, and that’s simple due to the statistical impossibility of it. It could happen, and it would be epic, but the pretence of a massive steal doesn’t work for me. Personally, I’d play it as play against anyone. But hey, maybe it’s just lost on me. Final Thoughts Put your observation skills to the test as you try to match the images on each card to one another before everyone else.

Colour Brain also has a nifty catch up mechanism in the form of the colour capture card which can be used only once per game to steal 8 random colour cards from the player or team ahead of you in points. That team will now have to attempt to answer the next question using only the three remaining cards in their hand before regaining all their cards again thereafter. Another popular game given a Disney makeover, this is a trivia game with the twist that all the answers are colours. Each player, or team, starts with a hand of colour cards. For each question, you choose one – or more – colour cards that you think match the answer. This non-verbal aspect makes it great for younger players. Built for one to four teams of one to three players per team, the box suggests a player age of 8 plus. In reality you can play (as we did) with players under 8. The key challenge is hand size (never thought I’d say that), little ones understand the questions and likely know more answers than their parents given the source material but will struggle to effectively “fan” the eleven colour cards and find the appropriate ones inside the 15 second pressure timer after the first player lands their cards. Simple concept but effective for the family. Sound easy? Well, it might be if not for the fact that you’re playing under a spell of silence. You’re not allowed to tell your fellow players what cards you’ve got. That makes it a whole lot harder… and massively more exciting when you achieve it! You have to look at what's currently on the board, and what's in your hand, and make a judgment as to what will help get the group closer to being able to match all the piles, and when you've correctly guessed which way the wind is blowing, it's so satisfying for everyone.