Cranium - Tips & Strategies

Young ones are able to play this game because even if they can’t do the trivia questions there is an equal amount of sculpting, drawling, and charades that they can handle in the Creative Cat or Star Performer.

If you have a younger crowd, just remove the Triva options to make it easier and when you roll that color, instead let it be a choice for the player or team of the other remaining catagories.

This sounds a bit crazy, but it works surprisingly often. Sometimes when you’re drawing something, people get stuck on something that it looked like when you started the drawing. they keep guessing things in that frame of mind, and just get stuck there.

The trick is to break your teammate’s concentration. When you’re finished drawing, cover your drawing with your hands for a moment. Then dramatically pull your hands back. I won’t promise that it’ll work every time, but it has many times for me.

Works the same for sculpting.

I have noticed that the cool purple clay dries up easily if left out. rather than ditch the game, or use the inferior Play-Doh, make your own replacement. Here is a recipe: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Playdough-Play-doh/

My advice is to use a kool-Aid packet for color and scent. Go grape and people might not even realize it’s not the Cranium purple clay.

It seems every time this game gets pulled out of the closet the booze come out. Things start pretty tame and there is general laughter and good times but by the end when people are buzzed things get loud and crazy, especially charades. We love it when it is crazy, it’s not so much about who wins but what team can get the most rowdy.