In drawing game, fun doesn’t take backseat

Posted in fun stuff, Kid-friendly products, Mom Stuff
by Lorain County Moms

Have you played “Backseat Drawing”? ($24.99, all ages, 4-10 players) In this goofy game that turns Pictionary on its ear, two teams race to identify sketches drawn by teammates — only problem is, the artists don’t know what they’re doing. No, we don’t mean they’re lousy artists, but every stroke of the marker is directed by a teammate who holds the card. It’s kind of like those “Survivor” challenges where a blindfolded player is guided through an obstacle course by a teammate’s verbal instructions. Only with whiteboards and markers and no blindfold. Very fun, which is what you’d expect from the company that makes Apples to Apples. The regular version’s cards spell out the object to be drawn. The junior version has a picture of the object. We just wished some of the objects were more bizarre. After a while you get bored drawing trucks and submarines, so we started writing our own … for the other team.

Find the game on Amazon, or visit http://www.otb-games.com.

—By Jackie Burrell, Contra Costa Times