Captain Obvious
Designed by: Urtis Šulinskas
Captain Obvious is a party game of writing sentences, deleting words, and then guessing what’s missing.
Each player gets a board, and in each round everyone is given the same word to incorporate into a sentence they write on their board (the roll of a die determines how many words in the sentence) – and this is done in secret. Once everyone’s finished writing, boards are passed to the left and the recipients choose one word to scrub out. The boards are then, one at a time, read aloud with a bleep (or blank, or noise of your choice) substituted in for the missing word. Everyone gets one guess at what the missing word is and if someone gets it right, does both the guesser and the writer are awarded a point.
If no-one gets it, the player who deleted a word gets a point instead. When anyone reaches ten points it triggers the end of the game: finish the current round and the player with most points wins!
Sam says
An accessible and quirky party game that I enjoy without feeling it quite hits the heights of others. To clutch a few examples out of the air, the – admittedly more complex – Word Slam has real-time pressure and laughter, and Just One feels more immediate, as the pauses are just about thinking up a single word rather than a sentence. In comparison Captain Obvious has a slightly staccato pace as one player might come up with a sentence on the spot but others struggle for a few minutes. That’s a downside for me that isn’t enough to put me off playing, but does mean that Captain Obvious probably won’t push its way into my favourites. But it’s good. It’s an unusual party game in its approach, and despite my minor reservations, still several levels better than some of the naff party games you find stacked by the tills in book shops and department stores.
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Take That!
None
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Fidget Factor!
Players obviously write at different speeds, and with more players especially there can be protracted lulls as everyone searches for a 6 word sentence including the word 'pioneer' for example.
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Brain Burn!
A light sizzle
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Again Again!
If you like it once, you'll probably enjoy it a few times
