Players: 2-4 players or teams
Playing Time: 20-30 minutes
If you love the fast-paced, creative action of .nightsandweekends.com/articles/03/NW0300316.php>Cranium, be sure to check out Cadoo, a Cranium game for the younger members of your family.
Players can choose to play the game on their own—with two to four players—or in teams. At the beginning of your turn, you roll the special die to see which kind of card you’ll play—Solo or Combo. Solo cards instruct you to do things by yourself—like answer a question or balance something on your head while saying the alphabet or running through the house to find something with holes in it. Combo cards instruct you to create or perform something for everyone else. You’ll have to draw something or act something out or mold something out of clay—and the other players have to try to guess.
If you successfully complete your Solo activity, you get to place one of your colored tokens on one of the 16 spots on the game board. If you get someone to guess the right answer while you’re doing a Combo activity, you get to choose the spot on which both you and the person who answered correctly get to place tokens. The player or team to place four tokens in a row on the game board wins. Or, if the game board is filled with tokens and no one’s gotten four in a row, the player or team with the most tokens on the board wins.
Cadoo is a high-energy game that will challenge players of all ages. The activities are similar to the original Cranium—drawing, molding clay, acting, answering questions—but they’re at a level that kids can handle (it’s recommended for ages seven and up, though we had a four-year-old playing with us, and she did pretty well, with a little help). The game encourages creativity in kids. And, with all the little extras—like the bright colors and cartoon drawings of the board, as well as the purple clay and special decoder mask that you have to use to check answers—it’s just a lot of fun to play. Whether you’re playing it with the family or with a group of kids and parents, Cadoo is sure to be the life of the party.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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