Party Game

Oodles is made up of three main items... a nifty ticking electronic timer that stops when you hold the button down and starts up again when you let go of it, an extraneous plastic Oodle stick (a large "start player" marker), and a deck of Oodle cards.

Each card has 10 questions on it, plus a "Silly Starter." The "silly" question is asked to the player currently holding the Oodle stick and if he/she answers correctly, they begin answering the questions on the card (each answer begins with the same letter). You are allowed only one guess... so if you're wrong, the moderator calls an "all play" and reads the question again. The first player to guess correctly wins the right to keep answering questions on the card - in case of ties, the tied players both take a shot at the next question. The player who answers the last question correctly gets the card... and five cards wins the game. (If the moderator is passing from person to person, if no one gets the last question, the moderator gets the card.)

The joy of the game is in the odd crossword puzzle-like clues:
Q: Cowboy questionnaire
A: Gallup Poll
Q: A very serious hole
A: Grave
Q: Where they regularly hang painters
A: Gallery

Q: Word to describe a naked grizzly
A: Bare
Q: Fish with a very deep voice
A: Bass

Q: How to get around a circle
A: Circumference
Q: Lahr's Lion
A: Cowardly
Q: What the farmer does to his photos
A: Crops

This family of games goes by a variety of names but in all of them you are guessing what the card on your head is. Cards have a cartoon or name of something or someone or somewhere, and you must ask yes-or-no questions of all the other players to determine what/who/where you are. Part of the humor is in the absurdity of the questions the guesser asks, "Do I drop my leaves in the fall?" when it's a celebrity, or "Would you find me on a buffet?" when it's a football. "Am I covered in fur?" when it's Tahiti or cheesecake or George Bush. So it's a silly game, sort of an opposite of charades with 20 Questions mixed in. There is logic and luck involved - the number games are more intellectual - but many of the games are just for laughs.

There are junior versions of the games (animals or community workers), number versions (deduce the three digits), versions where you have two cards including a person and a place, an 80s version, etc..

One Night Ultimate Werewolf Daybreak is a fast game for 3-7 players in which everyone gets a hidden role, each with a special ability. (No plain "villagers" here!) In the course of a single morning, your village will decide who among them is a werewolf...because all it takes is finding one werewolf to win!

Daybreak includes eleven new roles, and it can be played on its own or combined with the original One Night Ultimate Werewolf game; when combined, you can have up to ten players in a single game.

Trivial Pursuit is the original trivia game that started it all.

Each player has a circular playing piece with six pie-shaped holes. The goal of the game is to collect a pie in each color. The colors correspond to different question categories.

The board consists of a circular track with spaces in seven different colors. Six of the colors correspond to question categories while the last color gives a new dice roll. Six spaces along the track are "pie spaces", and from these there are "spokes" of track leading to the middle of the board.

Players roll a die and move along the track in any direction they like. When a player stops on a color they get a question of the appropriate category. If the player answers a question correctly while on a pie space, they get a pie of that color (assuming they don't already have it). A correct answer on another square allows the player to roll again.

Once the player has one pie in each color, she can move along the spokes to the middle of the board to win the game.

In this game players try to be the first to guess the correct title from the ReFraze given.

For instance:
Category = 80s Pop Song
ReFraze = Smack my person with your finest hit
Hint = Pat Benatar
Answer = Hit me with your best shot

Many different sets are available:

New for 2008; Sayings-Phrases, Quotes & Slogans

NEW JR. Edition includes 30 blank dry erase cards to let kids 8 and up to make their own ReFrazes $15.99

Sayings
JR.
TV Shows
70's Country
80's Country
90's Country
50's/60's Pop
70's Pop
80's Pop
90's Pop
2000's Pop
Christian/Gospel
Movies (Up to 1985)
Movies (1986-Present)

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