presentation

Cranium Dark

defining newly defined

You need to communicate terms, using pantomime, plasticine, pencil or words! The active player draws a Cranium card and an Action! card and must then get the other players to correctly guess the term stated on the Cranium card. He must use the means of presentation given on the Action! card, and those means are manifold and challenging: “Shape the term from plasticine while someone’s sitting in your lap” or “present the term as a motivation coach would do” or “present the term while tap dancing” or “draw the term, using the hand of another player” or “do not show your teeth”. Terms range from „hypochondriac“ to „milk a cow“ or „hairs in the drain“ or „sand castle“ or „hot air“. Some cards, especially those that demand drawing a term, forbid the active player to talk while he works on the drawing, that is, while the timer is running.

When the term is guessed correctly within the runtime of the timer, the active player and the guesser receive one each of both cards and the next player, as active player, draws one Cranium card and one Action! card. When several players name the correct term simultaneously, the active player determines who gets the card. When the term is not guessed within the runtime of the timer, both cards are set aside and the turn passes to the next player. Whoever has collected seven cards first, wins.

All features of this game are well-known and by no means new, and yet the game is refreshingly different, especially due to the many creative, unusual presentation methods, the combinations of terms and means of presentations are crazy, funny and result in much hair-tearing!

Players: 3+

Age: 18+

Time: 45+

Designer: not named

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Hasbro 2017

Web: www.hasbro.at

Genre: Definitions, guessing, party

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Witty variant of standard mechanisms

Challenging terms and means of presentation

Combinations demand creativity and imagination

Compares to:

Cranium, Activity, Tabu

Other editions:

Hasbro USA (en)

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue):30

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 2