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Cranium Party Playoff box art
2008 Ranked #10,671

Cranium Party Playoff

A prediction party game has players debate head-to-head contenders in a tournament bracket and vote winners forward. Points reward correctly forecasting the group choices, including the eventual champion and other players secret preferences.

Party Games Bluffing Humor Paper-and-Pencil Voting

Players

4-99

Play time

Not listed

Age

?+

Complexity

1/5

Rating

6.13

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.1/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.9/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.4/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

This is a party game where players vote on 32 contenders in a NCAA tournament like bracket. A contender advances to the next round when they receive a majority of the votes of the players.

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This is a party game where players vote on 32 contenders in a NCAA tournament like bracket. A contender advances to the next round when they receive a majority of the votes of the players. The players vote based on a question asked. For example, the contenders in the first round might be "Dolly Parton" vs. "street mime". The question might be, "Who would you rather be for a day?" All the players debate the match-up and then all openly vote on it. Play continues like this for each match-up. Each player makes their picks, and gets their points based on what contender they believe will win the entire tourney(4), who will make it to the championship round(2 for each pick), who will make it to the final four (1 for each pick), and a bonus pick(4). The bonus pick is where each player tries to guess what one of the other players will choose as the winner of the tournament. The points for each pick is in parentheses. The contenders are drawn randomly from 500 tiles and placed on the bracket in four categories (including an example of one contender from each.) Arenas - aka "Places" - Jamaica Contenders - aka "People" - Mark Twain Moves - aka "Actions" - Showering Gear - aka "Things"- Cocktails After all the tiles are placed, a player draws a random "Knockout"card. This "Knockout" card is the question for the final, championship round. Once every player sees that question, they make their picks and place them in an envelope until the end of the game. The object is make accurate picks as well as secretly convince the other players to pick your choices.

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Play and group

Players
4–99
Best with
5–11
Play time
30 min
Complexity
1.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Kim Vandenbroucke

Publishers

2
Cranium, Inc. Hasbro

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