Loaded Questions
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Toys and Games Reviews of Loaded Questions
Customer Review: A wonderful discovery, as fun as Balderdash, but more personal - a great family game or ice breaker!
Summary: 5 Stars
This, along with Beyond Balderdash have become our favorite game for family get-togethers for times like New Years Eve and other family gatherings. It's also become a favorite at family reunions, etc.
In this game players are asked questions, e.g., "What is your favorite thing to buy at a convenience store?", or "Write down one thing you hope you'll never need." All players then write down their honest answers, and the person whose turn it is earns points as they make correct matches between players and their answers.
If you think about it for a minute you'll see how this game can work well for people that know each other well, as well as for people that have just met.
One thing that we learned the hard way about this game is that it can REALLY drag if you try to play it with too many players. We tried to play it with as many as 12 players at a family reunion, and that was a mistake! It took forever to play, since it was so long between a player's turns. If, on the other hand, you play with fewer than 8 players the game moves along quite nicely.
The game rules suggest that this is a game best suited for teens and up, but we found that if you are willing to pick and choose questions even younger players can join in. Our 9-yr-old, for example, does quite well. The main requirement for players is that they need to be able to read and write well enough to be full participants.
This is a fun game for many settings - parties, family gatherings, etc.
5 stars...just make sure you don't play it too many times with too many people at a time in too short a time period :-)
Game on!
Customer Review: Easily my favorite board game.
Summary: 5 Stars
I usually don't write reviews for products, and am doing so only out of sheer love for this particular game. As can be easily gathered from other reviews, Loaded Questions simply involves navigating a playing board and reading the question on a drawn card corresponding to the color you landed on. The categories don't seem to matter. All are fun.
At this point the roller asks the question, and everyone else at the table answers it. This is the only game I've played where it's more fun to play during an opponents' turn, particularly if you and your family are creative.
It's fun to answer the questions honestly, but much more fun and challenging to goof around, and even if you do the game remains entirely playable. If members of your family and friends give you sassy answers of questionable integrity, knowing them well enough you can still guess by their sense of humor who said what.
Now onto the bad, which really doesn't need detract from the game. There are some questions which simply have the players answer something on a scale from 1 to 10. These questions aren't a lot of fun to answer, are difficult to guess, and generally we just skip them when playing. In addition to this, there are a very few questions that may be either slightly inappropriate for kids, or just not possible to answer. Questions about dating and kissing and such. These are very rare though. (I've seen one of each.) The least appropriate question I've seen asks what the players' favorite body part is. It can be taken innocently enough, but the game is obviously begging for certain answers.
Overall, the game is a blast, and even more so if you're willing to be creative with it.
Customer Review: Get Ready For Laughs
Summary: 5 Stars
This board game can be an absolute blast depending on who you play it with. For those of you who aren't familiar with the game let me fill you in (well, this is the way I play; it doesn't follow the EXACT rules). One player draws a card that has 4 personal questions on it (meaning they aren't based on facts that can be right or wrong), picks the one that they like the best and reads it aloud. The rest of the players then answer the question by writing it down on their answer sheet. Then another player reads all of the anonymous answers aloud and the person who picked the question has to guess which answer came from which player.
90% of the fun to this game comes from writing and listening to the hilarious responses to the questions. The game becomes filling out the most outrageous or hilarious response when my friends play, and it provides us with hours of entertainment. It is especially great to have when you are just sitting around with friends and can't think of anything to do.
All audiences can play this game for it is up to the players how mature the content gets. It hits NC-17 when I play it with my college friends, but PG when I play with my family and it is still fun. You really need at least 5 people to enjoy the game to its fullest, which does limit it slightly. If you are looking for a social game that sparks laughter this is the game for you. I highly recommend this game.
Customer Review: Love This Game
Summary: 5 Stars
I absolutely adore this game. A bunch of my friends and I get together every once in a while and this is a favorite for us.I have to admit, we don't always follow the rules. We tend to ask whichever question on the card we like (out of four choices) and most times we are having so much fun we race not just to the finish but also back again to the start.
How does it work? Well. very simply. Every one takes turns moving around the board ad whatever color you land on, you ask that question (or not - as we play) Everyone writes down their answer, someone reads them to you and you guess who wrote what. As many as you get right, that's how far forward you go. There are a couple of reversals, a couple of short cuts, but it's pretty straight forward.
So why is it so much fun that I have literally peed myself and also literally fallen on the floor laughing? There are just a lot of open ended questions, like "What are you most afraid of" "Who in this room snores the loudest" and frankly, my friend's don't take themselves terribly seriously. So we get raunchy or witty or tricky, and have a blast doing it.
I guess in the final analysis, the game is as much fun as you make it, but heck, in this narcissistic society of ours, what better way is there to spend an evening except by talking about yourself and your friends for hours on end? Beats the heck out of checkers!
Customer Review: Great Fun for Girl's Game Night
Summary: 5 Stars
Loaded Questions
My friends and I started playing this game every Saturday night about 3 years ago. Basically, you pick a card that has 4 questions on it. One person guesses who said what. Then it goes to the next player, etc.
This is a laugh-out-loud game. A good sample question is "If the devil lived next door, what would his name be?" Our answers ranged from Beelzebub to Stan (from the person who thought the devil would try to blend in.) We make up our own rules. We don't do the "reversals", we allow picking cards till we get one we like, we don't stick to matching a colored square to the same color on the card, and so on.
I am buying the adult version and think this will be a good fit for the girl's night. At our family holidays, though, we play the regular Loaded Questions.
I rated it high for educational, and my reasoning is that I've learned a lot about my friends and family. It won't teach you to count and it's nothing like Trivial Pursuit or other games that require you to think. That makes it perfect for us.
This game has no right answers, no timers, no buzzers, and the only thing required is that you have an opinion. It's fun and relaxing.