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2021 Ranked #5,916

Ransom Notes

A creative party game where players assemble responses to absurd situations from a limited set of word magnets. The restriction forces awkward phrasing and unusual ideas, leaving a judge to decide which answer wins each round.

Party Game Word Game Player Judge Turn Order: Progressive

Players

3-6

Play time

30-90 min

Age

17+

Complexity

1/5

Rating

6.72

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 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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A creative party game for making hilariously terrible sentences.

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A creative party game for making hilariously terrible sentences. 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. With hundreds of word magnets included, every round is always fresh, wildly creative, and tears-streaming-down-your-face funny. Each round, the player judge picks a situation and players try to come up with the best answer from their pool of magnets. Each is presented and the judge picks a winner. The game ends at a pre-determined number of rounds the player with the most points wins.

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Play and group

Players
3–6
Best with
4
Play time
30–90 min
Age
17+
Complexity
1.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Evan Katz Josh Roberts

Publishers

1
Evan and Josh's Very Special Games Company

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