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Monday 17 November 2014

Articulate and Articulate For Kids review and giveaway

Drumond Park make fantastic board games and last weekend we got to play with two of our favourites. Articulate has been around for a long while, and it's junior version, Articulate For Kids, has just undergone a revamp which sees it suitable for children aged 6+.

Articulate and Articulate For Kids review and giveaway

Our 6 year old is fairly articulate, but lacks nerve, so this is an excellent game for helping him gain confidence with description and memory. It increases a child's vocabulary and social skills. 


Articulate and Articulate For Kids review box contents

Play is very simple and in teams of 2 or more players - you will need at least 4 people to play. Place your counter on the 'start' space, then take the role of describer or guesser.

The idea is to describe as many card entries as possible to your team mates in 30 seconds without giving "begins with" or "sounds like" clues.
 
Articulate and Articulate For Kids review cards

We really enjoyed playing. Our 6 year old loved it. He felt very special reading his word from the card and describing it to his team, and very clever when he guessed a word right that his team mate had described to him.

People playing Articulate For Kids
Articulate board game review

Articulate is the classic original game. Play is very similar to Articulate For Kids, but with the addition of a spinner that can lead you to sabotage the other team(s) or massively advance your own team, and harder words printed on the cards.

Articulate board game review box contents

Questions in both games are in 6 categories - Object, Nature, Action, World, Person or Random, and there are thousands of different words in each game.  The cards from both games can actually be used together so that younger players can join in with older on a more equal footing.

Articulate board game review card examples

We really enjoyed playing, although moving from Articulate For Kids to original Articulate made it seem really hard! It was a good laugh and really fast-paced at times. One of the funniest bits was when the describer had no clue what they were meant to be describing. You're only allowed 1 pass each round, so use it wisely! I think playing expanded everyone's vocabulary - and general knowledge too.

Articulate is recommended for age 12+ and has an rrp of £32.99 - and can be played with 4-20 players or more. Articulate For Kids is recommended for age 6-12 and has an rrp of £19.99, again it's suitable for 4-20 players - or more.

Articulate board game review

Drumond Park have very kindly offered me one of each game as a prize for one of my readers. One winner will receive both games so that you can play with any or all members of your family over 6 years old. The prize bundle is worth over £50 and will be a fabulous gift or family entertainment this Christmas.


The giveaway will end at midnight Friday 12th December (after which no further entries will be accepted) and I'll need the winner's details fairly promptly - Drumond Park intend to post prizes on Monday 15th December in time for Christmas. Further terms and conditions at the bottom of the Rafflecopter form.

a Rafflecopter giveaway


We were sent our games for review. 

105 comments:

  1. A flying machine with rotor blades on the roof ? thank you for the giveaway :)

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  2. Catherine McAlinden17 November 2014 at 20:38

    Thing that flies with blade on top?

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  3. A round flying machine with spinning blades on top.

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  4. A small aeroplane without wings and rotating blades on the roof and tail.!!!!! :-)

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  5. It flies and has rotor blades on it!

    Ashleigh

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  6. a means of transport in the sky that uses blades

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  7. Something that flies over our house.. Not an aeroplane but the other.

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  8. tom out of fireman sam ride in one in the sky :)

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  9. Flying machine with rotor blades

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  10. Blades, loud, flies, for rich people, lands on a pad, used for air ambulance

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  11. flying man made machine with motor blades

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  12. A vehicle that can fly with rotating blades on the top and the tail

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  13. Round thing that flies with rotors not wings x

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  14. flying mode of travel with rotors not wings

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  15. It flies in the air and has rotor blades

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  16. It fly`s in the sky has 4 blades does not have many seats can land in small areas

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  17. A things that flys in the sky with roters

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  18. Flies in the sky with spinning blades.

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  19. Small flying machine with blades

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  20. Harold from Thomas and friends :)

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  21. Odd shaped flying machine with rotor blades.

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  22. flies in the sky small, blades

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  23. small flying vehicle with blades

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  24. It Flies and has rotor blades.

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  25. A flying machine with spinning top

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  26. It flies and has spinning blades

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  27. It flies and has spinning blades on the top

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  28. It flies but its not an aeroplane or animal

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  29. it flies with propellors, not wings, sometimes sycamore seeds are named like this vehicle

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  30. It flies in the air, carries passengers and has a rotating propeller at the top of it :/

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  31. A form on transport for the air with a propellor on the top

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  32. it flies and has propellor blades ontop

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  33. A vertical flying box with blades on the top! :)

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  34. it flies in the air but the pepollers are on the top,it has wheels on the bottom to land on and people bend down when they get out of it because they think the propellers will hit their head.

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  35. flying machine with propellor blades used as air-ambulances

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  36. A flying vehicle with rotating propellers

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  37. a machine that flies with can asos be used by the emergency services

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  38. machine that flies, has propellers on the top

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  39. A powerful machine, used by the emergency services to rescue people. It flies and you have to be a trained pilot to fly it!

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  40. a flying machine that goes 'chugga chugga chugga' with propellers

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  41. Brill question! Its a flying machine that chopped off Romano's arm in an episode of ER and I've never been the same near one since!

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  42. An aircraft with rotor blades that can hover and fly horizontally and vertically.

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  43. It n fit a handful of people in it and has a spinning rotar on top.

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  44. A flying machine that carries people around with spinning blades on top

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  45. Flies in the air with a blade that goes round on top

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  46. A wokka wokka, but not so specific!

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  47. It flies in the air but it's not a plane. Police and Ambulance crews use them.

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  48. It flies and has a spinning blade on top. Used a lot by military.

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  49. its not a plane but it flies in the sky with blades on the top

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  50. A metal bird?

    thedude_xyz@yahoo.co.uk

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  51. something that flies with blades

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  52. A machine that flies and has blades spinning round on top

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  53. type of aircraft that has rotating blades to fly

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  54. a motorised flying machine with rotors that spin on the top of it

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  55. a flying chopper

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  56. Robotic sky bird transportation vehicle

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  57. Transport that flies using rotors

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  58. It flies and has rotor blades on top

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  59. A flying machine with rotor blades on top :)

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  60. a round shaped flying machine with spinning propellers on top

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  61. spinning blades, what dad crashes into the ceiling that makes mum so mad ...

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  62. its flies
    no wings but has blades

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  63. Flying, has spinning blades on top, you can ride in it

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  64. A flying machine with blades rather than wings

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  65. it flys and carries passengers but has no wings

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  66. flys but isn't a plane and uses rotor blades

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  67. Round flying machine with blades on top

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  68. little plane with propellors on top

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  69. A flying vehicle with a propeller

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  70. flies in the sky and has four arms

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  71. A large metal vehicle with 4 blades on the top and tail that rotate very fast for flying.

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  72. it flies with blades on top Apaches and chunuc are types of it

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  73. Flies with rotor blades

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  74. Something that flies and that has blades on the top.
    Also another name for something Arnie famously said

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  75. It flies, has rotating blades and seats only a few people

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  76. A flying machine with rotor blades

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  77. amachine that flyes with out wings ..barbara M

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  78. A flying machine with a propellor on the top

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  79. it has rotors on the top and tail and fles through the sky but I am not a plane

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  80. 3 prongs rotate fast and raise it into the sky

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  81. flies by the means of a large propeller at the top

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  82. a whirly machine to carry people in the air

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  83. A flying machine that has rotating blades on top and is like Harold from Thomas the tank.

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  84. A flying machine with a propellor on top

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  85. "The flying vehicle that chopped off Romano's arm in ER" - I always play on my Mum's team and she'd get this INSTANTLY! :)

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  86. Flying machine that has spinning blades

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  87. A big object that fly's with spinning things on the top

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