Get your game on
Chelsey Levingston
Issue date: 1/17/07 Section: Feature
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Apples to Apples
The most requested game at Target, according to Selanie Johnson, Target's toy department leader in Beavercreek. It is a word association card game. Apples to Apples is fun with large groups of people or at least three friends.
The game has red cards with nouns and green cards with adjectives. Each player always has seven red cards, then, when it's their turn, they draw a green card. The other players lay down one red card they feel appropriately describes the noun on the green card.
Whosever turn it is chooses the best comparison, and the owner of the card they choose gets the green card. The first to get, for example, five green cards wins. What's fun is players really determine the rules because when it's your turn, you determine the basis for your decision.
Players can decide how many green cards win. Sample associations are The Vatican and innocent and earwax and organic. Remember to draw another red card when you lay one down. Apples to Apples is available at Target.
Scene-It?
Several versions of the interactive game are out, like Friends and Bond Deluxe. The original Scene-It? is a movie trivia game with card questions and movie clips or sound byte questions on the included DVD.
Roll the dice to move around the movie reel shaped board, and then roll the prism to determine what kind of question you'll answer. Each card has different types of questions, like "take three" where you identify the actor, actress, or movie based on three clues or "songs and slogans" with related trivia. You can also roll, for example, "my play" where on your turn you answer the question following the DVD clip.
It's best played with large groups, split in up to four teams, because what's fun is the competition. Expect a lot of yelling. Scene-It? is available at Meijer, Target and Wal-Mart.
Clue
The classic mystery game has been reinvented. Clue DVD is requested often at Target, according to Johnson, but there's also Clue FX and the classic. Clue FX has sound effects, new characters, new weapons and new places.
Otherwise, it's the same. Game cards have murder clues and one of each is randomly selected for the crime scene. Then by moving around the board to different rooms in the mansion for opportunities to see remaining cards, and by questioning other players about their cards, Clue is a process of elimination.
The voices and strategies are fun, but only up to four people can play FX. Classic Clue is available at Meijer, Target and Wal-Mart.
Trivial Pursuit
Broadening its audience, Trivial Pursuit now has several new editions, including Totally 80's, SNL, and Pop Culture, each with interactive DVDs and unique categories. Pop Culture, for instance, has TV, Fad, Buzz, Music, Movie, Sports and Games related trivia.
Move around the board by answering questions correctly. To win, you must collect a wedge for each color and correctly answer a DVD question from the center of the board. Questions are from the six color-coded categories like blue for TV.
What's fun are the "All Plays" where everyone tries to answer the same DVD question. The questions are difficult and it's similar to Scene-It?. Trivial Pursuit is available at Target.
Scrabble
Classics never get old. Good for conversation and intellectual stimulation, the rules haven't changed and you'll be surprised what words your friends use.
Each player always has seven lettered tiles and on your turn, you make words out of your letters, branching from what's been played already. Winners have the most points, based on letter values.
What's fun is the challenge, but Scrabble isn't for a party atmosphere. It is available at Meijer, Target and Wal-Mart.
Other popular games at Target include the Deal or No Deal DVD, said Johnson. Also student suggested was Rummikub, but unless you really like the card game Rummi, it's just Rummi with numbered tiles. Game on.
