Real-time

A Scrabble-like game without the board -- much like Pick Two!, but without the letter values.

Using a selection of 144 plastic letter tiles in the English edition, each player works independently to create their own 'crossword'. When a player uses up all their letters, all players take a new tile from the pool. When all the tiles are gone, the first player to use up all the tiles in their hand wins.

There are also variants included in the rules, and the game is suitable for solo play.

From the Rio Grande Games website:

Toppo is a fast card game with all players acting at once. Each player tries to get rid of his cards as quickly as possible by matching sets of three (or more) with the set showing on the layout on the table.

Scan the Layout! Match your cards! Strike fast and win!!

From the publisher's press release:

"Each player begins by sketching a TELESTRATIONS word dictated by the roll of a die. The old fashioned sand timer may limit the amount of time they get to execute their sketch, but it certainly doesn't limit creativity! Time's up! All players, all at the same time, pass their sketch to the next player, who must guess what's been drawn. Players then simultaneously pass their guess -- which hopefully matches the original word (or does it??) -- to the next player who must try to draw the word they see -- and so on."

"Telestrations contains eight erasable sketchbooks and markers, a die, a 90 second sand-timer and 2,400 words to choose from."

Pressure Cooker is a real-time game where players take on the roles of chefs vying for the right to become the new Head Chef at the city's hottest new restaurant.

Played over three rounds, players must quickly and accurately work to collect and combine the needed ingredients to fill all of the orders that have been placed throughout the restaurant. You must work quickly to get your dishes served before your opponents, but make sure you have all of the correct ingredients! Bonuses can be earned by using the highest quality ingredients.

Using a scoring system that ratchets up the tension as the rounds progress, the game will keep you on your toes and scrambling to fill the orders and become the ultimate pressure cooker!

Outburst is a game of lists. Two teams take turns trying to guess as many of the 10 answers to a topic on the cards. Bonus points can be earned by guessing a Target Answer determined by a die roll. The first team to 60 points wins! The game mechanism is very similar to the long time TV game show Family Feud, and itself seems to be the basis for the Canadian game show Talk About, which also spawned its own home game by Pressman.

An example would be a Topic Card of "10 Cars Rich People Drive." The team whose turn it was, would have to name the 10 cars on the Topic Card by the time the minute sand timer runs out.

The earlier versions of this game have a lot of dated topics. The 1995 version by Parker Brothers is more recent topically.

Re-implemented by:

Outburst II
Outburst Remix!
Electronic OUTBURST