You may select any combination of 1-point and 3- point words (two 1-point words and two 3-point words, etc).. The 3-point words are more difficult to act out and will consume more of those precious seconds! Act out the words, starting from Easy to Hard. Do NOT skip over any words. Rules for Guessturing are found in the HOW TO GUESSTURE box in the center column. Remember, the opposing team doesn't guess. They only guess when their Actors are Guessturing. A new actor is chosen for the next turn and so on, until all players have had their chance at acting. If one team has an extra player, choose a player on the other team to take a second turn at acting while the extra player takes their turn. Scrabble Flash: It's the crossword game you've played all your life... but never quite like that. Teams make words (3-5 letters) using five huge electronic letter tiles, with points awarded based on the length of each word. The first team to 25 points or more wins. Now it's time for an Actor from the other team to Guessture! The new Actor follows Steps 1 through 5.

It's a timer, too, so act fast! When the word on each card is correctly guessed, grab the card before it gets swallowed by the Mimer-Timer. After the Actor from the first team is finished Guessturing, an Actor from the second team takes a turn. Teams alternate turns. Each team member gets to be an Actor during each Scene. The cards drop into the timer one by one. You only get a few seconds to act out each word before its card gets swallowed. Your team gets points only for the cards they guess and you grab!Divide players into two separate teams. It’s okay if a team has 1 more player than the other if there is an odd amount of players.

Guesstures is a version of charades that introduces a new mechanic: a timer that steals the cards you are trying to get your team to guess! As soon as your team guesses the correct word on the card, grab your card out of the timer before it’s snatched away! Guess Who?: The toss-up game, played much like the "Fame Game" questions from Sale of the Century. Todd gives clues as to the identity of a celebrity or fictional character, and the first team to buzz in with the correct answer wins the first Crazy Cash Card choice and the right to go first or second in the first game. If the buzzing team answers wrong, their opponents win. Was demoted in Season 2. Celebrity Edition: The fifth season featured celebrities like Jon Heder playing alongside the families.Divide the players into 2 teams. It doesn't matter if one team has one more player than the other. In turn, each player on a team acts out 4 words while his/her teammates try to guess them.

Most mini-games in Cranium are divided into two rounds, first for the children and second for the adults. Point values are doubled for the adults' rounds. While the original format gave the advantage of having more Crazy Cash Cards at the end of the show for each game you won, each card had a different, unknown amount of money attached to it. Moreover, each team got a card at the start of the game, meaning that a team could have fewer cards but still win if the values were large enough. Cranium Who's Older: Players are shown a pair of people/objects and try to guess which is older. Once again, kids and adults play four questions each, the adult questions worth double points. Why We Love It: Guesstures adds extra excitement to your usual game of charades by adding a timer that snatches cards as you try to have your team guess them! What You’ll Need to Play GuessturesThe second variant of Cranium Star Performer, also known as Cranium Piano. Teams take turns stepping on colorful piano keys on the floor screen to build a sequence, adding more notes for each new turn. The kids' rounds require one new note each turn, the adults' rounds two. Once every team member has had the chance to “act”, all the correctly guessed cards for each team are tallied up to determine a winner:

Simon Flash: Players wear color-coded cubes and race to match a color sequence displayed on the screen, with the cubes switching colors after every sequence. The first team to score five points wins. The actor will now wind up the timer and press down the timer’s arm to start the countdown. They will now immediately have their team guess as many of the words as possible, starting with the leftmost word on the timer, as this card will be the first to be removed! Alternate turns until all players have had a chance to act in Scene 1. If one team has one less player than the other team, that team chooses an Actor to Guessture for 2 turns. Mouthing words is permissible ONLY if the word is not the word being acted out. Example: You may mouth "OUCH" while acting out "WOUNDED".

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Cranium Guesstimator: Basically the educated guess questions from Card Sharks, with the kids and adults playing four questions each.