Ransom Notes - The Ridiculous Word Magnet Party Game, 3+ Players

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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. The magnets seem reasonably sturdy, and the little metal boards on which you arrange your thoughts are pleasing.

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Ransom notes are not just a playing card, the judge picks the winning party game; players are constantly engaged in creative, out-of-the-box thinking that will make you cry with laughter. In theory, you could play with younger kids, but even though the play is simple, it can be surprisingly mentally taxing (unless some inspiration jumps out at you), and I don’t think younger kids would have understood the point, or had fun with it. Possibly I am overstating this issue, because I am a mom who was playing a game with several teenage daughters, and I may have been on high alert.

It’s crazy and hilarious and, despite the complete lack of sexy innuendoes, the most fun you can have with word magnets.

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It’s easy enough to just toss any cards and magnets you don’t want in your game (the FAQs say about 15-30% of the cards are not PG), but it’s something to know about ahead of time, depending on who’s going to play. 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. We kept track of the words people liked to use, especially those that were funny or otherwise versatile.So aside from potentially running out of word magnets and not having more displays to show your sentences on I’m sure you could play with a bigger player count than 6. There was just a slightly forced, smirky feel to it, and I wish they had just chosen more neutral words, and let the double entendres arise more naturally, because they’re funnier that way. If a resolution cannot be reached and your item is still missing we reserve the right to wait for up to 30 days after purchase before issuing a replacement or refund. Overall, a clever, funny, successfully-conceived game, and we laughed a lot, and we played a full game in under an hour. Grab a handful aiming for around 75 but you don’t have to count, unless you know, you have to, in which case this is going to be a looooong game!