Guess Who? Board Game

My kids love this game and have had it for about 8 years. We gave this one to a cousin who had it on his Christmas list. He's now 6 and my kids will still play it with him....One of the "windows" cracked , but we place it in the holder carefully and it still works.

The game build quality is poor. You have to spend 30 minutes punching out the cards and holders, inserting the cards into the holders, then putting the holders into the boards. Then the card holders will constantly come out of the boards, and the cards comes out of the holders.

The game is also not that challenging for all but the youngest players since the character traits are not that varied.

I got this game for my daughter for Christmas and put it together tonight. It is VERY cheaply made. The pieces that you "flip up and down" will not stay on, they're constantly falling off and having to fix them every ten seconds takes the fun out of the game. The concept itself is fun and great for kids, but it's sad how greedy manufacturers are these days, it could be made much better.

The game is fine as outlined by most reviews on here, but the manufacturing leaves a lot to be desired (like so many things nowadays). I remember playing the 80s version and it was built to last and fun to use. This is flimsy and cheaply made.

I do not recommend this game and cannot understand the 4.5 star average rating. Yes, my kids enjoy it. However, it is so poorly put together that its just really, really annoying to play. The plastic pieces routinely fall over, or come off entirely. The person pictures come out quite easily unless you tape them in place, and if you tape them they may not flip properly. It takes maybe 30-60 seconds of "set up" time to play a 2-4 minute game. While this isnt the end of the world, I personally find it quite annoying.

Here is how the game works: there are around 30 or 40 faces in the game. Each player randomly picks one card from the 40. Each player has a rack which includes cards for all the faces which are turned away from the opposing player so that only you can see the faces in your rack. Each trait (for example gender) is split so that there is a minority (i.e. there are only 6ish female faces, and 6ish black faces, etc...) and a majority (the remaining faces -- i.e. 20+ are male, 20+ are white, etc...). There are around 10 or so traits, all with this majority/minority trend -- gender, race, glasses, hats, bald, facial hair, etc... Every person seems to have at least one or more minority traits (i.e. its a man, but he is bald, or wearing a hat.) You ask a question, ie "is it a girl" and, depending on the answer, flip over the boys/girls on your rack to eliminate them, and by process of elimination, and by asking more questions eg "is the person bald" work down till there is only one person on your rack, which must be the person the opposing player picked. Whoever gets down to one left on their rack first (i.e. figures out who the other player picked first) wins. Getting lucky and picking the right minority trait to ask about is more useful than good logic.

I'm not overly PC or anything, but I just cant warm to a game the whole purpose of which is asking questions designed to exclude people with minority traits, so you can, by process of elimination, figure out who is left.

Moreover, the concept is so simple that I dont think the game is very educational. The kids (even the very young) quickly learn the basic concept. Once they learn it, there isnt any real learning left to do. (Yes, its true an adult can use more advanced logic to pick the "best" questions, but good luck explaining that to a young kid. Indeed, I bet there are plenty of adults that would not understand the logic behind selecting an optimal question.)

Skip it.