Since the board does not have a space for all of the players’ discs one of the players will not be able to play one of their discs. You must be over 18, a resident of the country offering Afterpay, and meeting additional eligibility criteria to qualify.

The game is fine as a very basic speed game but there have been many better speed games created since Tension was released. cards are included with the base game and each one is double sided resulting in 400 challenging topics for players to wrap their heads around. Everyone races to claim one of the spots (chairs) on the gameboard and one player is left without a spot (chair) to put one of their discs. Brilliant for helping your children expand their vocabulary and create some truly gripping pieces of creative writing. Like a lot of these type of games where all of the players rush to do something at the same time, really aggressive players can ruin the game.To support the blog and keep it free for all users, Geeky Hobbies utilizes various affiliate programs to earn commissions.

This great word mat features a variety of vocabulary that could help to create tension, suspense, and mystery. A Question Mark means you have to predict a number (after hearing the title of the round) and score exactly that in the round or don’t move at all. Covering topics like foods, brands, clothing, inventors, films and sports, there’s a great breadth of topic to ponder over. Unless all of the players are about equally skilled in speed games, this kind of leads to a boring game where one or two players are always going to win while the other players have no chance of winning.

All of which span a variety of genres and generations meaning that grandma can nail the elvis presley round while you take care of the ed sheeran round. Also, to make the games a bit quicker we added a house rule where once the time had run out on a round, the other team could chime in with answers to score points for themselves; however as soon as a wrong answer was given, the round was finished. If you don’t like speed games you most likely won’t enjoy playing Tension as it doesn’t bring anything new to the genre. The kids in the front look extremely nervous like playing the correct disc is a life or death proposition. I tested N on some of the questions afterwards, and he enjoyed it, so I bought the family version of the game for him for his birthday.

With only 2 of us in the house who’ll play them, we can sometimes be limited by those suitable for 2 players. With so few mechanics it is not surprising that Tension is a game that you can can teach to new players quickly. As the active team fires out answers, the question team must mark off every correct answer on the interactive marker pad, and then move the other team’s piece forward that many spaces. Players will race to play one of their discs of the color spun onto one of the corresponding colored spaces on the gameboard.words or less– teams have to guess the words on the card from you describing them in 25 words or less. While I actually think it would be interesting playing two discs each turn, the two player game is lacking the competitive nature of the four player game. Two of us took the roles of players while the other became the quiz master and tried to keep up with the flurry of answers.