Articulate for Kids (rrp £19.99, age six to 12, for four to 20 players), is the hugely entertaining junior version of Drumond Park’s perennially popular and hilariously raucous Articulate! board game (rrp £32.99, age 12+, also for four to 20 players).
Articulate for Kids can be played by a group of children by themselves (or with grown-ups), or alongside Articulate! for hours of multi-generational family fun. Many educationalists also choose to incorporate the game into entertaining learning strategies in the classroom to promote speaking skills – adapting game play according to small or larger numbers of children in play.
Both board games follow the same simple format: how quickly can you define a word – from the categories Object, Nature, Person, Action, World and Random - without actually saying it? In each round, the teams divide their members into "Describers" and "Guessers". The timer is started, and the Describers take it in turns to describe their way through as many question card entries, from the different categories, as possible to their team members – the Guessers - within a 30-second time limit.
Each team moves its counters around the board, based on the number of words correctly identified and the object of the game is to reach the FINISH segment before the opposing team. There are clear Description Rules included in the Instructions. For example, Describers mustn’t give hints such as "begins with" and "sounds like".
When playing the Articulate for Kids game, children will have lots of fun and also experience a sense of fulfilment – digging deep to describe people, words and phrases as diverse as Mo Farah and Prince William, Nemo and a fairy, a piglet, the Daleks, a jigsaw and a cuckoo.
If you’re one of the very few people out there who haven’t yet played Articulate!, you really, really should! Perfect for players aged 12 and upwards, it’s an absolute riot and a hilariously raucous team game. Speed is of the essence here, and the more words your team can guess from your descriptions before the timer runs out, the quicker you’ll cross the finishing line!
To be in with a chance of winning a set of both board games just answer this question:
What is the miniumum number of players for each game?
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Please write Articulate for Kids in the subject line and include your full postal address.
Winners will be the senders of the first five correct emails opened at random after 3pm on Monday 29 September, 2014. Only one entry per household.
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