Do Tell Family Game Giveaway

Do Tell is an unusual game which is designed to be played by families or at parties. It is intended to improve communication between family members and get people to open up and talk honestly and share with each other. It was different from most games my family has played because it isn’t really a competitive game.

The game play is pretty simple. The game includes everything you need, including sharpened pencils, which I really appreciated. We can easily waste 10 minutes at the start of a game looking for and sharpening pencils! There are 4 kinds of cards in the game.

Do cards – the player has to demonstrate something
Tell cards – the player answers a question
Risk cards – the player answers a question or does something on a more controversial topic
Wild cards – these are things like go back a certain number of spaces

Each player rolls, and picks a card based on on the space they land on. If they do what is asked for on the card they stay on the space, otherwise they have to go back. So who wins is more based on the dice rolls than anything else.

My family and I played the game together. The kids weren’t too enthusiastic to start with. They read the back of the box and were already calling it “the therapy game” before we even started. The questions were definitely designed to get them thinking about issues and concerns. We had questions like “Can your family and friends always count on you?” and “When do you feel anxious?” Some of the spaces are “Mirror” spaces, and these were our favorite part of the game. On these spaces the person answers a Tell question on paper, and all the other players write down what they think the answer will be. These questions generated the most surprising answers, and the most laughter. My family really didn’t care for the Do cards. I think these cards would be more appreciated by younger kids, but my teenagers just rolled their eyes at being asked get up and perform. I think next time we play we will just use the Tell cards on both the Do and Tell spaces.

Overall this was a fun game, and it did get my children thinking and talking. Although the children expressed reluctance to play at first they wanted to keep playing and had a good time. We play games together a lot, and we generally play games with more strategy, so this game was a change of pace. The game is very simple to learn and could be played by any child above about 8 who is reading. It was also relatively short, and took us about 30 minutes to play. The company has one copy of the game to giveaway to one of my readers.

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