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Review on ๐ŸŽฎ PlayMonster Utter Nonsense - The Crazy Game of Voices and Accents: Ridiculous Family Fun! Ages 8+, 4-20 Players (Red) by Brian Cooper

Revainrating 2 out of 5

This game has an identity crisis - I have no idea who the audience is supposed to be!

Full Disclosure: My husband and I had so much fun with the adult/blank version of Nonsense that we thought it would be just as much fun. To be honest it was a bit disappointing. Both games have a similar concept, and it's quite simple: the players have cards with sets, and each chooses the set that corresponds to the vote chosen, and the appointed judge chooses the winner. After playing a few maps, we were confused as to who this game is for. Parents planning to get drunk on wine but the kids are in a different room so they don't get too keen on the cards? middle schooler? millennials? Rappers in training? Grandma and grandpa? Without exaggeration. We had no bloody idea. The cards were a bizarre hodgepodge of phrases that only very specific age groups could get, weird alliteration, forced rhymes, bad dad jokes, puns, lots of references to flossing (for both teething and dancing), and things I could say to grandparents. . For example, I'm pretty sure no one under 30 will get a reference from Avril Lavigne, there are plenty of Facebook group jokes, obscure pop culture references, and a bunch of shit that piles up that doesn't work. the meaning or reference is so strangely specific that no one will really understand it. It wasn't funny for adults and I don't see how a kid could find much of it funny unless they're making fun of adults for not understanding what's going on. That is nonsense. Skip to the zero/adult version to see what this game was meant to be, but it's easy to get past.

Pros
  • Try for a year
Cons
  • Almost everything is fine