If time is of the essence, these artists are starving.
With Wonder Forge’s new drawing game Really Bad Art, three to six players ages 12 and up can show off their eye for design or let their artistic woes be exposed. But young Picassos beware, because Really Bad Art doesn’t have the patience for your masterpieces.
Before players can put pencil to paper, they’ll need to get set up and familiarize themselves with the process of making some really bad art. Once the board is setup, each player chooses a mover, colored guessing tokens to match, a pencil, and some sheets of paper. The game contents include a small paper pad, but printer paper or loose-leaf would also do justice.
Once the young artists have gathered their supplies, the sub-par art can commence. The fun of Really Bad Art lies—like most games of this sort—within the deck of cards. In this case, each card displays a phrase that players must attempt to represent through a drawing or sketch. Examples include “from bad to worse”, “total freak out”, “prom night”, and “rescue mission”. Each card contains two phrases, and since there are 250 cards in the deck, there are 500 different possible artistic representations for players to attempt. Shout out to my third grade math teacher. The phrases are wildly fun, and pose quite a challenge.
After each player draws a card from the deck, the timer is flipped over. It will beep three times, and then ding. At the sound of the ding, all players peek at their card’s phrase and attempt to draw it… in only six seconds! Remember when I said Really Bad Art doesn’t have the patience for masterpieces? I meant that. Once everyone has given it their best shot, one player collects all the cards (keeping them face down) and draws a decoy card to add to the pile. The cards are then flipped face up, and assigned a letter by being tucked under the edge of the game board.
Next, after all the drawings are spread out for everyone to see, players can use their lettered guessing tokens to guess which players drew which drawings, by placing the letter token assigned to the phrase on top of the drawing they think matches. Players get two points for putting the correct token on a drawing, while the artist of each drawing receives one point for every player that correctly identified theirs. In short, it pays to guess well and draw well.
Really Bad Art may produce some less than stellar artistic visions, but it’s sure to induce hilarity and laughter at the expense of some rushed artists.
Really Bad Art will be available at Target in the beginning of August.
