Close, keep guessing - Spin your hands in a circular motion imitating a spinning wheel towards a person who is close to correct guess

If a player guesses a word, the actor must pull out that card immediately before it is grabbed by the timer. If a player guesses the word, but the timer grabs the card before the actor does, that card is not scored by the team. Season 3 changed up the format: families (one or two, depending on the game) are now called from the audience Price Is Right-style to play one of four games per episode for prizes. Each of the participating families then choose a card containing a combination, hopefully containing the one that opens the Community Chest and allow them to advance to a revised Crazy Cash game for a chance to win a brand new car. The same setup carried into season 4—now with five games per episode—with a few new games added into the rotation (including the first mini-game based on Monopoly). Transatlantic Equivalent: A version named Juegos en familia (Family Games) was produced in Spain and broadcasted on the Boing network. It aired for 4 seasons from 2011 to 2013. Set the Mimer-Timer on a flat surface in front of you, such as on a table. The guessing players must never be able to see the words on the cards while they are in the Mimer-Timer. The actor will now wind up the timer and press down the timer’s arm to start the countdown. They will now immediately have their team guess as many of the words as possible, starting with the leftmost word on the timer, as this card will be the first to be removed!Cranium Brain Break: The new opening game from Season 2 onward replacing Guess Who?. Teams perform stunts similar to those featured on Double Dare (1986). The team with the most points wins. Guesstures has been around for over 30 years! It has gained so much popularity that there is even a giant version of the game played by celebrities on “The Ellen Degeneres Show”! The Announcer: Bur ton Richa rdson for Seasons 1-2. Stacey J. Aswad replaced him at the beginning of Season 3, Andrew Kishino (who had previously worked for The Hub as a voice actor for G.I. Joe: Renegades) took over for the final two seasons. Now it's time for an Actor from the other team to Guessture! The new Actor follows Steps 1 through 5.

Guesstures is a version of charades that introduces a new mechanic: a timer that steals the cards you are trying to get your team to guess! As soon as your team guesses the correct word on the card, grab your card out of the timer before it’s snatched away! If the team guesses the word or phrase correctly, they earn a point. If they don't guess it correctly or run out of time, no point is earned. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins. Number of players: 4+ (There is no official limit to how many people can play, but it’s suggested to play with no more than 12 people total) Then use the crayon to enter your total score under your team's name next to "Scene 1" on the Mimer-Timer.Draw the first 4 blue cards from the card box. Look at your cards and decide which words you want to act out. A new actor is chosen for the next turn and so on, until all players have had their chance at acting. If one team has an extra player, choose a player on the other team to take a second turn at acting while the extra player takes their turn. The show gets its name from a promotional campaign Hasbro uses to market its board games, which also spawned a series of compilation video games of the same name.

Guesstures Free Fall: Essentially charades, but with the clue givers suspended over a "pit" and "dropped" if the guessing family member passes. The format plays somewhat like Pyramid in that the object is to get as many as possible in two minutes. Spin-Off: Scrabble Flash was removed from the game rotation for Season 2, mainly because it got moved to Scrabble Showdown. Divide players into two separate teams. It’s okay if a team has 1 more player than the other if there is an odd amount of players. Operation Sam Dunk: A skee-ball game with Sam's cavities as the holes, and a bell target for double points. Season 3 onwards: The family gets one roll at the beginning and can earn up to three more by removing pieces from the parent's body. Replaced "Relay" after Season 1. The second variant of Cranium Star Performer, also known as Cranium Piano. Teams take turns stepping on colorful piano keys on the floor screen to build a sequence, adding more notes for each new turn. The kids' rounds require one new note each turn, the adults' rounds two.Connect Four Basketball: ...With the "pieces" replaced by balls that are thrown into the chutes on top. The first produced episode featured a slightly different variant where players from both teams shot their balls at the same time; three rounds were played and the team winning two rounds won the game. Most mini-games in Cranium are divided into two rounds, first for the children and second for the adults. Point values are doubled for the adults' rounds. The actor cannot point out at any of the objects present in the scene, if by doing so they are helping their teammates If the Mimer-Timer swallows your card before your teammates guess the word (or before you can grab it), hurry on to the next word!

Simon Flash: Players wear color-coded cubes and race to match a color sequence displayed on the screen, with the cubes switching colors after every sequence. The first team to score five points wins. No Indoor Voice: Todd is like this sometimes (as he was on Whammy!), though compared to many of the over-dramatic game show hosts that permeated the 2000s, he actually shows genuine enthusiasm and likability. In Season 5, celebrity team members wore purple shirts bearing a big FGN logo and a gold star on the front. While the original format gave the advantage of having more Crazy Cash Cards at the end of the show for each game you won, each card had a different, unknown amount of money attached to it. Moreover, each team got a card at the start of the game, meaning that a team could have fewer cards but still win if the values were large enough. Each card that was guessed correctly and grabbed before the timer, gets set aside in a pile for that team to be added when the game is over.

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Why We Love It: Guesstures adds extra excitement to your usual game of charades by adding a timer that snatches cards as you try to have your team guess them! What You’ll Need to Play Guesstures