Exploding Kittens You Lying Sack An Honest to Goodness Game
Exploding Kittens You Lying Sack An Honest to Goodness Game About Lying – Outsmart Your Opponents in This Fun Game for Adults Teens & Kids – Fun Family Games
| Dimensions: | 6.35 x 14.73 x 22.86 cm; 260 Grams |
| Model: | SACK-CORE-4 |
| Material: | Paper |
| Colour: | Multicolor |
| Batteries Required: | No |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Age: | 7 years and up |
| Assembly: | No |
| Dimensions: | 6.35 x 14.73 x 22.86 cm; 260 Grams |
| Material: | Paper |
I open it up and played with 3 other people. The game is okay, but we gave up after about 20m and moved on to another game. I don’t think I’ll ever pull this out again. Its not difficult, and its quick…but its just not that fun.
The game is and incredibly simple concept to learn and would be suitable for all ages. We have had great fun playing this with friends and family. The game pieces are well made and store nicely in the bag and box.
The foam balls have been a staple in magic for a long time because they are easy to make disappear and reappear. It’s fun to use the same principle as the basis for this game. It’s well-crafted to include balancing risk with reward and the writing is fun.
I’ve only played a few rounds with only two people, me and my mother. We played to 20 instead of 10 cause the game was over too quickly. I definitely recommend this game to anyone, its so much fun.
Simple game to set up – easy to play with adults and kids alike. Small and compact so easy to grab to take on your travels as well.
Game can be adapted to make it longer/shorter.
The game quality is amazing: Beautiful packaging + graphic design, wonderful production quality, and great instructions.
The game premise is actually not as simple as it sounds, although getting into the game is easy. However, as you begin to play more, your mastery of the very complex nuances you can use (think poker face!) make the whole thing so much more fun.
We have had so much mileage out of this game over Christmas, and our family absolutely loves this. My mum particularly couldn’t get enough, and we took this out to a local “alcohol + board games” bar for our traditional family cocktails + games, and it became hugely addictive – great for the cocktails bar as we stayed longer and drank more!
This game just gets better and better the more you play.
For 19.99 at the time of review, this game is firmly cemented in our hearts as a regular go-to… we’ve even begun to ‘adapt’ the rules to allow for fast play or longer, strategic games.
Very much recommended!
We’ve played this as a family a few times. It’s easy to learn and grasp. Even my 3 year old has been able to join in.
I must admit however, the majority of the game is sponge pieces so I feel the price is a little high.
This is a good fun game to play with friends with a few drinks, it’s a very good concept and easy to learn. It’s small and light enough for taking to other people’s houses easily. Only drawback is I feel for what you get it seems rather overpriced but it does remain a good game and entertaining.
This is an interestingly different concept in that it’s very simple, a straightforward bluffing game with the dice adding elements of variety between turns. The number of bad things you get landed with for making the wrong choice goes up the longer the game goes on which is also a good concept as it builds and helps bring it to a conclusion.
It’s a great little game for just shoving in a bag on a day out or a trip to the pub. Doesn’t take much to pack it up and it doesn’t take up much room if you’re squished in at a small table somewhere. The kids find it hilarious when they manage to hoodwink me or my wife with their bluffing. They love the complexity of some of the other games but the simple fun of this is also enjoyable.
For me it’s not quite as universally fun or long lasting as the Exploding Kittens but a really good addition to our growing games pile.
Easy to play game that is easy to learn once you watch the video. Basically you have good things and bad things in a bag and you take turns to reduce or add to your pile. Ten bad things and your out of the game.2-5 PLAYERS. If you got more players its more fun. Nice little game easy to set up. Recommended
We have Exploding Kittens and some of their expansions so I was happy to receive this to play. Essentially, it’s a game of bluff- you need to either convince someone you have something ‘good’ they want and persuade them to take it, or persuade them you have something ‘bad’ and that they should let you keep it. You can only do this by saying the same sentence every time and telling them you have ‘bad things.’ You want to persuade people to take the bad pieces or let you keep the good piece- which allows you to give away some of your bad pieces. Collect 10 bad pieces and you lose. Be the last person not to lose and you win. I’m not sure why they don’t include it on the amazon page but there is a good explanatory video you can watch from the Exploding Kittens website that means you don’t even have to read the rather simple rules/instructions.
The bad things are foam triangles and the good thing is a jelly like rectangle. Although the foam feels a little cheap its designed that you can put your hand in a bag and hold multiple foam triangles but look like you are holding the one rectangle- so foam that can be compressed is ideal and the different shapes help you to tell the difference. This game contains a bag, the good thing and multiple bag things, a dice and a game board with a dial.
Whether this game works well or is a total flop really depends on who you play with and whether everyone just passes or gets involved and takes risks. It can be a great game with the right people. Although play it too much with the same people and you get to know how they play.
So I’m not the best at board games but my three adult children love playing anything when we all get together. The best advice I can give is to watch the YouTube video which is recommended as it’s much clearer than reading the rules! Quite a simple idea but fun once you understand what’s going on, for me at least! It’s different which was the appeal and kept us all entertained for the evening
You Lying Sack
Interesting game, doesn’t really involve a board or cards, though you do get to throw a dice. Its basically about bluffing, lying or second guessing.
A central card has a wheel which tells the next player how many bits of red foam (bad things) they need to pick from the orange sack OR they choose to pick a blue squidgy block (the good thing). They keep the thing(s) inside their closed fist
A dice is rolled to occasionally reset the wheel (to 2 red bad things) when you roll a 6.
The player then offers the fist around the table, and each player can accept the contents, or pass to the next. If no-one accepts, the starting player keep the hand. If you get the red bad things, that’s bad news and your collection of bad things grows (reach 10 and you are out), if you get the blue good thing your collection of bad things shrinks (according to the dice roll).
Generally the game sounds simple, and it is, but then its all about strategy, luck, second guessing both for the person choosing the thing and for the other players about whether to accept the things.
Points
– suitable for most ages (suggestion 7+) and 2-5 players (though unsure how much fun 2 would be)
– pretty quick game, depending on outcomes, but the 15 minutes sounds about right
– players are knocked out one by one, until one survivor
– if your fist is small you may struggle to prevent the red foam peeking out (especially as the counter goes up – 8 is the max) which rather defeats the gameplay
– clearly if you grab something quickly from the bag its more likely to be the good thing, but again this allows for deception by deliberately slowly rooting out the good thing
– its pretty clever, and difficult to suggest a winning strategy – as it depends on both the number of bad things you already have, the counter and the dice roll.
Overall – very clever, but also no great sense of achievement if you win, decent quality box, good instructions, but not much for your money.
This game is a bit of an unusual concept, centred around reaching into the sack and grabbing a handful of shapes, and trying to convince other players that you’re either holding a good or a bad shape
The rules are fairly simple and easy to learn, I like that there’s a video you can watch which makes learning the rules easier
Gameplay for 3 players lasted around 10 minutes, and it was quite fun to play, but it’s a bit overpriced for what it is
The overall look at the game is quite good box as well designed instruction leaflet is very colourful and reasonably easy to follow except that the instructions are split over three pages you go from page one the first instruction to page 3 the second instruction with the page to be in graphics, so it’s a little hard to fully grasp the premise of the game at first, however with a bit of patience it is quite good
Find a bit strange there’s only one good thing in a massive bag of foam triangles which are the bad things so you can really town someone’s hunting for the good thing
Overall, this is a nice game have to be honest, not my favourite 20 think it’s designed for fun, but it can be confusing