Cheatwell Games Tension: The Top 10 Naming Game

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Needless to say, this has quickly become a family favourite in our house, and as soon as there’s a quiet moment Tension is on the table and the bliss silence is replaced by frantic shouting. As the active team fires out answers, the question team must mark off every correct answer on the interactive marker pad, and then move the other team’s piece forward that many spaces.

Brilliant for helping your children expand their vocabulary and create some truly gripping pieces of creative writing. If you get that number you get to move forward, if you don’t reach that target figure, you have to go backwards.But with 400 unique topics in the base game, you’ll be working your way through them for quite a while. Furthermore, the top 10 fun doesn’t have to stop with the base game, as there are multiple expansions that can be added for more list themed fun! While I actually think it would be interesting playing two discs each turn, the two player game is lacking the competitive nature of the four player game. Being a pure speed game, Tension is a game that some people are going to be great at while others are going to be terrible.

The orange cards are generally easier and can be used for children, otherwise you use whichever colour of card depending on where you land. Players will race to play one of their discs of the color spun onto one of the corresponding colored spaces on the gameboard. The game suggests playing as two teams of two but can be just as easily played without the scoring board and team rules - just challenge each other and see who knows the most. There is nothing terribly wrong with the game but it also doesn’t really do anything original either.

If a player has no discs of the color that was spun, they can place any of their discs on one of the spaces corresponding to the color spun. My top ten cents on Tension and why I wholeheartedly believe it deserves a place in everyone’s house. A Question Mark means you have to predict a number (after hearing the title of the round) and score exactly that in the round or don’t move at all. Designers have found ways to improve on everything that Tension has to offer where I don’t know if it really pays to play what is now an inferior speed game.