You've Been Sentenced Game by McNeill Designs
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This sentence-building game uses unique pentagon-shaped cards with multiple conjugations of funny words, famous names and familiar places.
With a hand of 10 cards, players try to score the most points per round by constructing the longest, grammatically correct, and sensible sentence. Each card used in a sentence is worth 5 points, but using some of the more difficult conjugations on the card can earn you bonus points.
Any player can object to another players sentence, on either grammatical grounds, or the fact that the sentence just doesn't make sense. The defending player and the objecting player get to argue their points to the rest of the players, who form a jury.
The jury gets to vote on whether or not the sentence is acceptable. Half the fun is trying to defend, explain, and justify a completely ridiculous sentence to the other players. Accepted sentences score points, rejected sentences get you zip. First player to reach 200 points wins.
For ages 8 and up.
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Product Details
- ISBN: 0641729367
- ISBN-13: 9780641729362
- Manufacturer: McNeill Designs
- Sales Rank: 218
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Fun Game!by Anonymous
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August 01, 2009: My son who is 24 years recommended this new game. He and his wife really enjoyed playing it with their friends. I had never heard of it. So I started shopping around for it at several other stores that didn't carry it. I finally found it at Barnes and Noble. I'm so happy I purchased it! I played the game with my grandchildren ages 7, 11, & 12 years old. We had so much fun laughing. The children really knew their sentence structure with nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives. I would highly recommend this game.
Too competitive for my taste...by Anonymous
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March 30, 2009: As the title suggests, the court theme of this game makes it very competitive. I played with my parents; while my mom and I wanted to laugh at sentences, my dad was adamant about the debate. The atmosphere quickly went from amusing to defensive. Take into account the kind of group you're playing with: it can be a lot of fun depending on the mood of the group and how friendly you want to judge the sentences, but feelings are probably prone to get hurt. I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone particularly sensitive to criticism.
