Guess Where?

Guess Where?

Find the family in this game of hide and seek. I know many people have heard about the Guess Who? games that have been on the market for many years. Guess Where? is from the makers of Guess Who? and is your chance to guess where, not who, the characters are.

Everybody is home, but in which rooms are they hiding? Find out by asking your opponent yes and no questions. Is grandma in the kitchen? Is the dog upstairs? Find all the family members first to win the game. Guess Where? reminds me of the game Battleship.

The game comes with 2 fold-up plastic houses, so it is a 2-player game (see image above). One house is blue, one is red. One set of family members is blue, one is red. This makes it easy to tell quickly who gets which pieces. The same six rooms are on the bottom and the top of the house (see image above). Rooms are bathroom, kid's room, bedroom, kitchen, family room and hall. A label sheet comes with the game and the first time you play it you will need to apply four labels to each house. There are holes in each room, two or three, where characters will stand. There are grooves around the edges of the rooms downstairs so that you characters can be moved around to help you remember the answers you will get.

There are 8 different family members and a total of 32 family member pieces, 16 for each player. Each player will have two sets of the exact same family members. One set will have pegs in the back so that they can be placed in the holes that are on the top half of the house and the second set has tabs on the bottom you can stand them in the holes on the bottom half of the house. The character pieces are fairly small and the eight family members are dad, mom, grandpa, grandma, brother, sister, dog and cat. You will hide eight family members on the top half of the house and move the other eight members around on the bottom as you make your guesses.

By asking yes and no questions you will be able to eliminate locations and narrow down where your opponents family members have been hidden. Here are some examples of yes or no questions:

• Are there any pets downstairs?
• Is either one of the kids in the family room?
• Is mom upstairs?
• Is the cat in the hall?
• Is there a guy in the bedroom?

Object:
Be the first player to find all the family members.

Set up:
Each player takes a house and all the family members of the same color. Each player takes one set of family members (pegged pieces) and hides them anywhere on the top of the house.

Play:
Players take turns. Ask your opponent yes or no questions. If you get a yes answer, place your character(s) in the grooves around the rooms on the bottom of the house. For instance, if you ask if mom is upstairs and get a yes answer, place your mom character off to the side of the upstairs level. Or, if you find out that the kids are not in the kitchen, place them between the hall and family room to remind you to ask about those rooms. Come up with your own system for remembering, whatever makes sense to you. Once you have guessed an exact room for a family member, or think you have narrowed it down, place your character tab in the hole for that room. If you get a yes answer to a question you get to ask another question. Keep guessing until you get a no answer, which will end your turn. Now your opponent gets to ask questions. When you know, or think you know, where all your characters are, make a guess. If they are all correct, you win the game. If you are wrong, your opponent wins the game. 

Try this:

• Make it an easier game by using just the upstairs or just the downstairs.
• Make it an easier game by using fewer than eight characters.
• Play with individuals of different ages or skill levels. Balance it, for instance, by making the adult find all eight while the child finds four or five.

In the box: 2 fold-up plastic houses, 32 family member pieces, label sheets

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