AGE 15+: Ransom Notes: House Party Edition is designed to be perfect for both family groups and adult game nights alike — the prompt cards are appropriate for most teen family groups, but players can decide how clean or inappropriate to make the game depending on their answers. Ransom notes isn’t just a play a card, judge picks the winner party game — players are constantly engaged in creative, out-of-the-box thinking that will have you crying from laughing. To support the blog and keep it free for all users, Geeky Hobbies utilizes various affiliate programs to earn commissions. While a majority of prompt cards are certainly suitable for all audiences, there are quite a few that are definitely not. Someone reads a prompt from a card, and everyone (including the reader) has to pick words from their collection of word magnets to express what is on the card.

You get to be creative but silly and it’s so much fun with a group of friends or people you just met. Laying out the words in your play area can be a little time consuming and I’ve not yet found a method that works well for grouping and finding words easily to use so I’ve tended to group by word length. But I have to say, when I played it with people I didn’t even know I ended up laughing harder than I ever have playing Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity. Turn your game nights into hours of ever-fresh hilarity, tears, and drop your face with the word magnet party game that will have your friends creating unbelievably terrible phrases you'll never forget! The magnets seem reasonably sturdy, and the little metal boards on which you arrange your thoughts are pleasing.Overall, a clever, funny, successfully-conceived game, and we laughed a lot, and we played a full game in under an hour.

The magnetic words are alright and being a fridge word building connoisseur I really liked the idea of this but for my liking they were a little bit too much on the small side, which made them hard to manipulate. Your words won’t get messed up when you make your face-down submission and you won’t spend much time wiping them off when the round is over. With 250 wacky prompt cards and a different set of word magnets each time, players end up creating an endless variety of terrifyingly impressive sentences.There are also some prefixes and suffixes in the mix, that didn’t happen to make it into this collection.

You’ll probably want to use a timer so that the game doesn’t drag on; 60-90 seconds should be enough.If you use the other side your magnetic words are much easier to slide off but then you have the game title, Ransom Notes, as a background rather than a plain black, making it harder to read your response. Players respond to outlandish situations like, "Tell someone you've clogged their toilet at a party" with just their limited pool of word magnets, leaving even master wordsmiths no choice but to create awesomely horrendous phrases. THE PERFECT GIFT: For birthdays, Christmas, Father's Day, or an anytime present for creative people. Aside from a few choice cards the game can be as risqué or ‘clean’ as you make it with your phrase productions.