MindWare The How I Survived Card Game

Name: MindWare The How I Survived Card Game
Brand: MindWare
SKU: B00AQQ87EO
Price: 27.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.6 (152 reviews)

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4+ players
Ages 8+
MindWare

$27.99

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How I Survived hands you three random objects and a scary situation and dares you to talk your way out. The judge picks the plan that is smartest, funniest or most outrageous. It is a storytelling game that rewards imagination over knowledge.

Each player builds a plan from three random objects
A judge awards survival ration tokens for the best plan
Plays with 4 or more people, so it scales to a crowd
Rounds take roughly 15 minutes
Encourages creative thinking and storytelling, ages 8 and up

How it plays at home

On each turn, players look at the objects they were dealt and describe how they would use them to survive the situation. The judge listens and gives tokens to whoever impressed them with wit, logic or pure absurdity. There is no single right answer, so the quiet player has as good a chance as the loudest.

It does well at parties, classrooms and family gatherings where there are more people than a standard board game seats. Encourage short answers to keep the pace brisk. Tip: let the judge rotate, because each person rewards a different style of story.