As you can see, the cards are very cleverly written – the Advice cards easily as clever as the Plan cards. Sounds Like a Plan turns out to be everything you’d want to see in a Major Fun party game. And you feed your hamsters to make them heavier. And if the thought of crashing your hamster into your opponent’s hamster until one of you falls over or out of the ring doesn’t bring a smile to your face then remember this: at the start of the match, all players must chant SUMO HAM SLAM!! And there are magnets. Gamewright goes for the gusto with their hamster sumo wrestling game Sumo Ham Slam. What’s the point of dressing up as a pirate if you’re only going to go through the day saying your same old innocuous pleasantries in your predictable Midwestern mumble? Sometimes you just have to go for the gusto. I’ve generally found that if you are going to do silly, you might as well go all out. Sound impossible for a word game? Sound like two great tastes that have no business being in the same kitchen let alone the same plate? THINK AGAIN!! It’s a hoot. Specifically, we wanted to see if the junior set would engage adults and children at the same time. We wanted to see how Word on the Street, Jr. We reviewed the original Word on the Street a while back. And Rory’s Story Cubes is a wonderfully nonthreatening invitation to that art. Making and telling stories is a valued and venerable play form. Gamewright has added its usual stamp of quality, housing the dice in a wonderful little box with a folding magnetic lid, giving the game a look that complements the treasure it can so easily become. All in all, this gives you 54 different images and close to ten million possible combinations. Each die has a different image on each side, and each die is different from the others. Rory’s Story Cubes is a set of nine dice. (click on the name of the game to see our review) Not just for kids: Rory’s Story Cubes The rest are marketed for adults, and, oddly enough, depending on the kids, can prove at least as much fun for them as well. Many of them are marketed especially for children, and yet have proven to be at least as much fun for adults. This year, we have twelve games that have made it to the top of our 2010 list.
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