With only 2 of us in the house who’ll play them, we can sometimes be limited by those suitable for 2 players. The components inside are quite minimalistic; 2 packs of cards, a scoring device, a timer and a foldable game board. We played with N using the orange cards, and I used the correct cards for the colour spaces as in the rules.

Some of ours were quite straight topics, but one of mine was ‘types of bed’ – and it wasn’t just furniture beds included. Like a lot of these type of games where all of the players rush to do something at the same time, really aggressive players can ruin the game. Since the game relies entirely on speed, the player(s) that are best at speed games are always going to win.To support the blog and keep it free for all users, Geeky Hobbies utilizes various affiliate programs to earn commissions. I would probably only recommend picking it up if you can find it for cheap though because there are better speed games out there. Each person takes it in turn to ask the other (or team) the topic, and they have a minute to find the 10 items from that topic that are on the answer card.

The orange cards are generally easier and can be used for children, otherwise you use whichever colour of card depending on where you land. The game is fine as a very basic speed game but there have been many better speed games created since Tension was released. Tension tries to turn the classic game of musical chairs into a board game but ends up creating a generic speed game that is past its prime. 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. 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.You must be over 18, a resident of the country offering Afterpay, and meeting additional eligibility criteria to qualify. But somehow, this game manages to withstand heaps of playthroughs and still feel fresh and challenging. 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!

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. Landing on a swirly mark moves you forward a number of spaces equal to the spaces you moved to land on it.

A player cannot touch a disc before the Spin-O-Matic stops and a player cannot hold more than one disc in their hand at a time. If you are one of the first players to play your disc, you get rid of the disc while the slowest player has to take all of the played discs. This great word mat features a variety of vocabulary that could help to create tension, suspense, and mystery. With so few mechanics it is not surprising that Tension is a game that you can can teach to new players quickly.

cards are included with the base game and each one is double sided resulting in 400 challenging topics for players to wrap their heads around.We could play it without the board, and just have a number of spaces to get to to win, rather than spiralling all round the board. 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.