It's What You Say (Utter Nonsense)

You do these little flavor intros for so long, that after awhile you can come up with some funny bits here.  But then there's games like this.  Games that are so focused on the spoken word that the written word is just...lacking.  Incomplete.  Well, ladies and gentlemen, the reviews must continue, and so I, without a chance to warm you up, introduce Utter Nonsense.  (Voice in the key of Batman)



BACKGROUND:  Utter Nonsense is a card game for 4-20 players, published and created by Tim Swindle and Dave Mazurek.  It is a game of silly voices, silly sentences, and laughter.

GAMEPLAY:  Each turn,  a judge is selected, and players a dealt a hand of seven sentence cards.  Then, an accent card is revealed, and each player chooses a sentence from their hand to read using that accent.



WINNING:  The player who reads their sentence best or most humourous wins the point, indicated by the accent card.  The judge is then passed to the next player, and the first player which collects a determined number of points wins.

CONCLUSION:  Like Snake Oil, Apples to Apples, or Joking Hazard, this is a party game meant as a palette cleanser game.  It's designed to be funny, but not taken seriously.  There is even a game similar to this I reviewed called Moods.  The major difference is that in Moods while everyone is saying the same thing in the same mood, this game lets you attempt to be funny rather than accurate by choosing what to say.  I think something like that helps to make a game be more original and have more of an identity than just a "Silly Voices" game.  That being said, it's still a "Silly Voices" party game, so go in expecting that.