Colourbrain: Award-Winning Simple Family Board Game

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Zatu has an excellent range of games and for most of them the best prices too. Delivery is always fast and I have never received a game in bad condition. 10/10 would recommend. 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.

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Choosing from a selection of colour cards, players must answer a question with either one card or a combination of two or three cards to answer a plethora of Disney based questions. Being the first to place your cards down and shouting ColourBrain starts a 15 second countdown for the remaining players to get their answers in. Getting the answer right doesn’t guarantee you victory or points in a round since your score is determined by the number of teams or players who get the question wrong. So if everyone is correct, nobody scores and a point is carried to the next question, if two are correct and two are incorrect then the the victorious two players/teams get two points each. Still Shrinkwrapped… A question card will be drawn and it’s your job to answer with the relevant colour cards. For example you might be asked about the colours of the power rangers and you’d answer with the correct cards. You’d also hope that some of the other players get it wrong because you score a point for each other player that gets the answer wrong!My family lost our 16 year old to suicide in August 2014. I write about this occasionally, and I collect smiles as often as possible. Admittedly some of the questions are deliberately guesswork and destined to gnaw away at you – “Cripes, what IS the colour of the entertainment wedge in the original Trivial Pursuit? Damn my failing memory..” 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 Brand new for 2020 is Junior Colourbrain, suitable for kids aged six and above. There are 120 questions all suitable for youngsters coveringa range of topics from Mario Kart -120 and Harry Potter to wild animals. One way that Junior differs from the other ColourBrains is in its box size. While the other boxes are by no means huge, this one is much more travel friendly. It’s a throw it in your bag and go type box which makes Junior the ColourBrain of choice for travel gaming. The downside is of course that it only holds 120 question cards as opposed to the other games which have closer to 300 cards. That’s still a fair bit of replayability though, providing you don’t have a photographic memory!

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Split into teams of kids and grown-ups, then try to answer one of 250 crafty questions about the Disney Universe. Disney Colourbrain has a way to stop you having that one in eleven chance of guessing correctly every time. Guessing multiple colours. Simple, but effective. Suddenly Woody’s bandana is three colours, not two like you though. And Nemo isn’t just orange and white. There’s a third colour there too. We’ve all got our favourites, but here’s a look at some fun board games that make for perfect family bonding time. Monopoly Each team has eleven Colour Cards in their hand. To answer the question, work out which colour to put down. Can you remember the colour of the jewel in Princess Jasmine's hairband? Or the five colours of the Incredibles' suits?Perhaps the biggest difference in this junior version of the game is that it only facilitates two players or teams. It’s head to head if you will. But this allows for a simpler method of scoring. The winning player or team simply take the card, first to 10 cards wins. It also allows for a softer scoring system whereby the closest answer wins the card. It still retains the colour capture system though so the trailing team have that one chance to catch up. RACE TO THE FINISH: Whenever the other teams get the answer wrong, you score points! The first team to reach ten points wins the Disney game and gets to live happily ever after.