How to Play Cranium

Cranium is one of the most interactive and entertaining party games available. Cranium combines the frenetic pace of charades and Pictionary with mind-bending puzzles meant to make you exercise your brain. Teams of two or more battle it out to see who knows the most about pop culture or who can sculpt the answers to questions out of a mound of putty.

Things You'll Need

• Cranium board game

Instructions

1. Choose teams and choose a color for your team. In the event that teams are uneven, you can agree to leave them as they are, or you could appoint one person to the role of sole writer/sculptor/drawer. This makes it fair for everyone.

2. Choose an all-play to get the game started and determine who gets to go/move first. Whichever team correctly answers the all-play is permitted to move first. You may also roll to see who goes first, then begin play and pass the turn order to the left of whoever goes first.

3. Move forward the number of spaces indicated on the die. Choose a question based on the color of the space you land upon.

4. Have someone from another team read the question to you, and designate someone on your team as the person to draw/act/hum or whatever the card asks.

5. Set the timer once you're ready to begin. Then try whatever means you have available to get your teammates to guess the answer to the question posed.

6. Roll the dice and move again whenever you answer a question correctly.

7. Continue play until one team reaches the final square, in which the question asked is an all-play. If the team in the final space answers it correctly, they win! If another team answers correctly, they keep the game alive and are allowed to answer another question from the space they're on.

Tips & Warnings

• Avoid having misunderstandings during all-plays by designating one player to be the referee. His job would be to simply listen to see who calls out the answer first, which will help to avoid an argument.

• Try to determine who on your team is better at certain types of questions. For example, some people will be great at the "Creative Cat" cards that call for drawing or sculpting, while others will know plenty of songs or charades and can steer teammates to the right answer.

• Keep in mind that when you're drawing or sculpting, your clues don't have to be literal. You can draw objects reminiscent of what the answer is and hope that your teammates "connect the dots."

• While non-toxic, the putty should still not be eaten. The other pieces could be considered choking hazards, so monitor children whenever they are playing Cranium.

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish