Tactic 41102 Party Alias Game, Nylon/a

My friends and I love it, really helps us practice English as our second language, it develops vocabulary a lot!

Every person loves this age from the age of 10 to 70! Fun at all times!Family game, educational game, party with your friends board game. A classic that will always be a success!

A game that will bring out your competitive spirit. I recently ook this game to a family reunion and it brought loads of laughs

It is really funny game for adults

Great game. Very fun to play. Lots of laughs to be had.

It’s good game but cards were stuck together while trying to unstuck them some ripped

Great fun!!!

Party Alias has a basic mechanic that will be familiar from some other games: players form teams or two (or more) people and, on each turn, one player has to try to communicate to their team mate what word is on their card - by any means without saying the word itself. The number of these that are correctly guessed before the sand timer runs out, allows you to progress that many spaces along the board track, but any passed or not correctly guessed are subtracted from that total. The regular play cards have a list of eight words and the word you have to communicate is dictated by the number of the space that your playing token is on at the start of your turn. These words vary from verbs, adjectives, phrases and names of pop culture trivia, such as television shows. As a set of British (and one Spanish) players, it was very noticeable that the game has been developed by an American company for a local audience - as some cards reference TV shows that we were unfamiliar with, and some terminology, such as "real estate agent" is much more commonly used in the USA. Some words also proved a bit of a struggle, due to the limits of some players' vocabulary, and suggests and explanation for the age recommendation of 15 years and older.Sprinkled along at the board track are 'Party' spaces that, should you land on them, require the player to pick up one of the Party cards, which have an instruction for the manner in which you have to conduct the clue-and-guessing part of the game for that turn. Examples include: standing up and turning in a circle when someone guesses correctly; giving clues as if you were a football player being interviewed after losing a match; holding your nose and biting your lower lip; explaining everything in how it pertains to improving world peace. None of the challenges that we encountered were at all salacious or 'rude' - you can describe them all as 'good clean fun', and something that young children could participate in, if only the words to describe were generally much simpler. If you make any successful guesses during a 'Party' round you also get to increase your total by using the spinner on the game board (adding 1, 2 or 3 steps to your progress).The instructions provided are a bit disappointing. They need some sort of revision as, whilst they very carefully explain the Party bit, and the general 'explaining' part, they don't really tell you how to start off playing. It almost suffers from being too wordy, and a beginning summary shortly explaining the different parts of the game board would have been a bonus (i.e. that the spinner is solely for use during a Party round, and that players can pick from any of the three stacks of word cards - their position on the board is irrelevant).During our play, we tended to find ourselves hoping not to land on any of the Party spaces; whilst some of them really do add a fun element (in particular the ones that require using certain words or specific actions), others are more annoying, but it'll come down to personal preference whether or not you find it fun or humiliating! There is little chance of repetition with the 'word' cards, as you get a ridiculous quantity (three very large stacks) and, as mentioned before, you may struggle with some americanisms, although more often than not the words are transatlantic in nature.A final comment; you're sure to find yourself getting several laughs out of this game, and will have a good time playing with friends or (suitably mature) family members.