Loaded Questions

Last night we had some friends over for dinner and afterwards, were going to play Catch Phrase. Just as we were starting to explain it, our daughter piped up and said, "Why don't you play Loaded Questions? She had to refresh our memories a little about how to play, and we took her advice. It's a great game to get to know people better.

It's a board game and you take turns rolling a dice and reading a card that has questions corresponding to what color you're on on the board. Some of the questions are, "What's your greatest phobia?" Our responses were "Needles and tubes", "My kids not following God someday", "Heights", and "Freddie Kruger".

Another question was "If you could get a million dollars today, how would you do it?" Our answers were "Rob a bank", "Rob a casino", and "Call Oprah". Just to clarify, my answer was "Call Oprah".

The person reading the question has to guess which person had which answer, which are read of paper from the person next to them. (So you can't tell by handwriting)

For every right answer they move up a square on the board. There are twists to the game, like reversal. If you land on reversal, the reader of the question writes their answer and everyone else guesses what they wrote. The players get two squares ahead for every right answer and the reader gets two squares ahead for every wrong answer.

One of our guests blew us all away and won by at least two turns. It was a fun game, we laughed and laughed, and got to know each other even better.