I bought this? You Gotta Be Kidding... (pun intended)
Ok, I made an impulse buy at Wal-Mart and bought the "You Gotta Be Kidding" card game, it isn't the exact game that is shown here, but since there is no entry for it (and it is not worth an entry of it's own - trust me on that one), I thought I'd give a report on it here. Initially I was going to give a session report like I have always done on games played in the past, however, since I noticed that there were no entries at all, I thought I'd combine my report into a review and give my thoughts on the the game play, components, etc., to help others decide more if they'd want to purchase this or not.
The retail price I got this for at Wal-Mart was $2.00, it didn't say if it was a special sale price or actual retail price, I found it in the toy department on the end cap that has all of their card games. I figured I'd take the shot at two bucks.
Now for a little background... the last couple of months, my wife and myself have been getting together with my parents once a week for 'game night'. It started off as an innocent game of Scrabble a few months ago, and has now turned my non-gamer parents into the type of people who are now calling us up to ask if we can come early or bring more new games. We are not yet to the level of pulling out a copy of Tide of Iron or anything, but all in all it has been a fun time for all mainly sticking to party games and family games. This has been a great experience for me, and is really the main reason I got into this 'game' hobby to begin with, to spend quality (fun) time with friends and family members...
A few weeks back I was in Wal-Mart and purchased a copy of the "You Gotta Be Kidding Me Card Game", which as far as I can tell is the same game as this except only comes with cards. This was one of the new ones we decided to try out.
The game itself comes in a small deck pack like games such as "Phase 10" or "Rage", upon opening the pack you find a stack of cards which are not quite card sized and have square edges. The overall quality is poor, non-glossy and not able to stand up to a lot of wear and tear (I doubt this game will see enough play time to actually wear down the cards, but I thought I'd mention it), the overall stock of the cards would (in my opinion) be considered poor.
There are also 2 colored tokens in the box as well, numbered 1 and 2, as near as I can tell there is no reason for the color difference since the numbers are printed right on them, but whatever.
Basically, the first player reads one of four questions on the card, and everyone else playing tries to guess which answer you have selected (which you have picked by placing a token in your hand with a number 1 or 2 on it). Questions are goofy and fun and some are disgusting, but in a funny way. An example of this would be "Would you rather eat a cup of your own snot or drink a cup of monkey spit". Then you secretly place your answer (token) in your hand and everyone guesses, whomever is correct gets a card and the next person reads a question, the winner is the first person to 6 cards.
Well, we did the first few turns and it wasn't too fun and a little boring, apparently if we had a couple of 12 year old boys playing with us that could make fun at the questions we'd have had more fun, so then we decided to put a twist on the game and go ahead and make it part of the game to give a specific reason WHY you would have picked the answer. In the above example, had I chosen "Drink a cup of monkey spit", I'd have to explain why I'd rather do that over eating a cup of my own snots... the game suddenly became a lot more fun.
The length of the game for 4 players was quite short, in fact, we were done in maybe 10 minutes, so we decided to double the play to 12 cards for the win.
The overall thoughts were that this game was decent, but probably not something we'd pull out specifically to play. It would make a great filler game if you were planning on a get together and waiting on somebody to show up, especially if you introduced some house rules. Also, I think that a more 'adult' version of this game would probably be more fun. I think it was made for ages 8 and up if I recall correctly, so they obviously had to tone down the subject matter a bit.
Quality: 3/5 (About Average)
Game Play: 2/5 (Might be ok as a filler game?)
Artwork: 1/5 (Nothing Special)
Fun Factor: 2/5 (Add some drinking and you might have a winner!)
Overall Rating: 2/5
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