Family Game Night with Scribblish (Giveaway!)

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One of our family Christmas traditions each year is to add a new board game to our collection. Someday I hope to have a a fully-stocked “game closet” for frugal family game nights.

Hasbro’s newest addition to their Cranium collection is called Scribblish, and it recently arrived on our doorstep. I accepted the review as an opportunity to donate the game to Toys For Tots, so we have not actually opened the game. But the concept seems quite enjoyable and I just might have to add this one to our closet eventually!

Cranium Scribblish is a hilarious new game that’s like a cool mashup of the old schoolyard favorite, “The Telephone Game” and Pictionary. Simple, outrageous, and a ton of fun. Everybody grabs a card, chooses a caption, and then tries their best to draw it in 45 seconds. From there you pass on your drawing (now with the original caption concealed) to another player, who has to write a caption for your sketch. This mayhem continues around the room with more sketches and captions until the end when everyone tries to figure out how “this” became “that”. Oh, and if you’re not exactly a Picasso, no problem. Stick figures work just fine.

Indulge your inner doodler with Cranium Scribblish. Guaranteed fun for ages 8 to 80ish. Would you like to experience this clever new game?

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Comments

  6. Christy says

    We love the game Curses but just last week at my in-laws we played scribblish and it was HILARIOUS!! Seriously I laughed so hard.

  22. Denise Wilson says

    Right now, it is Hungry Hippos. Looking forward to that changing as my son gets older… lol

  46. Barbara says

    It’s a tie!! Scrabble is our favorite serious game and Scattagories is our favorite fun game! Games are the best family time.

  58. Kari says

    My husband and I like to play battleship, Phase 10 and trival pursuit (although he ALWAYS wins that one!) but with the kids we end up playing the memory type games.

  63. Lissette says

    Every Thanksgiving and Christmas for the last 8 years we have played Guesstures with our extended families. Its a fun tradition we look forward to 🙂

  73. Linda says

    We love Phase 10 and Mexican Train dominoes. We have a dice game called 10,000 my husband taught me from his childhood, and that’s fun too.

  78. Kristin says

    Our favorite board game is actually Monopoly! I think it’s because it’s so easy for everyone to play 🙂

  96. Mary Beth says

    The kids love playing Mystery Museum (a Christian version of Clue). We have it at church and I think the kids would play it every week in Sunday School class if we had time.

  97. Maria says

    Since my girls are only 4 and 5, our favorite game to play as a family is Candyland. But most recently we also love Guess Who.

  99. Maria says

    I just became a fan of Family Game Night and You on Facebook…yay! I thought I already was your fan but now I know I am! Thanks again!

  100. Mary Ann says

    1st time. Not sure if I’m commenting about game night in the right place, but here is my comment. We try to keep things pretty simply in our home in order to be able to have dinner together as a family and play games together. One of our favorite games is Balderdash. Lots of laughter during this game. We have two teens. One is a freshman in college (commuting) and one that is a senior in high school. My husband and I are very blessed to be able to spend quality time with them.

  110. Patty says

    I follow you and Hasbro on Facebook—and even found a coupon for $5 off this game. . . in case I don’t win. If you see a deal on these let us know!

  115. Barb in BA says

    I love an old game called Chronology where you have to put historical (fun ones and serious ones) in a time line.

  116. SHIREY S. says

    Our favorite family board game is scrabble! with the bigger kids and Life with the younger kids! pen4dav143 @ yahoo.com

  122. says

    We have played our own version of Scribblish for years at family get-togethers! This is the first time I’ve heard of an actual name for the game though. It’s hilarious fun – the more people you have, the better! We have some very creative artists/writers in the family, so the results can be very entertaining!
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  144. krafty kid says

    we like LIFE and Monopoly Jr. Would love to get the new electronic Monopoly – with credit card type thing to monitor the money. Fun.

  154. Cassie says

    hmmm, we enjoy playing games but probably one of the most fun to play with the family and friends is Boulderdash!

  167. Tanja says

    Right now we have been playing Minotaurus Lego game. But we love the whole line of Cranium games! Thanks for the chance to win!

    Tanja

  179. Alison says

    I guess it’s not technically a “board” game, but my husband and I love to play dominoes. We usually invite a whole group of people over and play until midnight or so!

  190. Brandi says

    Our favorite game to play for family game night is either Apples to Apples or Cranium Family Fun. Either one usually provide us with such a good time, that no one is ever dissapointed that they didn’t win. 🙂

  202. teresa says

    We play a game like this anytime we’re around a group of 12 or more. It’s a Hoot!
    Big hit with all groups!
    (Each person makes up a sentence to begin the game.) Would love to see what they suggest.

  207. Carrie says

    We love to play princess scrabble with our 4 year old! (Although, her favorite game to play is not a board game…she LOVES Go Fish!)

  208. Sabrina Dalessandro says

    We Love Apples to Apples! (both versions) The kids don’t even realize that they are learning too!

  219. Victoria says

    We enjoy lots of games – we recently acquired Creationary which is like pictionary with Legos, it’s lots of fun. We also really enjoy In a Pickle and Apples to Apples

  221. Victoria says

    I “liked” Family Game Night and have “liked” Keeping the Kingdom First for quite some time – I enjoy your posts =)

  229. Kathie VanDeraa says

    Dad loves Scrabble but the family plays Fast Scrabble!
    Thanks for doing this. Cranium games are the best!

  238. Beth says

    An old Disney uno game where Tinkerbell gives you directions from time to time-can you tell I have a houseful of girls?

  245. Eva Marz says

    We love to play scrabble. Some family members say the oddest words. We laugh so hard but we have a dictionary near by to look words up just in case.

  249. Dana L. says

    I love playing Cranium with my family! It’s a great combination of different fun activities. v2931 at aol dot com

  272. Karen C. says

    We have many games we play, but I guess the favorite is the old fashioned Monopoly. We have a good range of games that we play on our family night!

  290. Nikki E says

    we love us some Scrabble. Except I’m Uber competitive and can sometimes ruin the fun….wah wah.

  301. Mandy H. says

    We have SOOO many favorite games! Blokus, Apples to Apples, Wizard (card game), Bananagrams, Sorry, Rack-o, Settlers of Catan, Time’s Up: Title Recall … and so many more! By far, our favorite group game (for ages 10 and up) is Time’s Up: Title Recall! SOOOO fun and SOOOO hilarious!! Pictionary Card game is also a fun one. Seriously, I could go on and on. hahha.