Product Description
Beloved 1980's version of the classic mystery face game is back! There's a mystery person on your opponent's card. Can you find the matching face in the crowd? Start with your game full of silly-looking characters. Then ask the right questions to eliminate the wrong faces! Does your person have blue eyes? Is your person wearing a hat? Once you're down to a face or two - solve the mystery by guessing who! If you're the first to identify your opponent's mystery person, you win. Ages 6+
Top Customer Reviews
The game is fun but the product / manufacturing is terrible.
By Peter S
Very rarely do I give bad reviews, but this product really deserves it. I remember this Guess Who from my childhood and had lots of fun playing this with friends and family. But this version of the game is absolutely terrible.
Beloved 1980's version of the classic mystery face game is back! There's a mystery person on your opponent's card. Can you find the matching face in the crowd? Start with your game full of silly-looking characters. Then ask the right questions to eliminate the wrong faces! Does your person have blue eyes? Is your person wearing a hat? Once you're down to a face or two - solve the mystery by guessing who! If you're the first to identify your opponent's mystery person, you win. Ages 6+
Top Customer Reviews
The game is fun but the product / manufacturing is terrible.
By Peter S
Very rarely do I give bad reviews, but this product really deserves it. I remember this Guess Who from my childhood and had lots of fun playing this with friends and family. But this version of the game is absolutely terrible.
#1. When we received the product, one of the card holders was broken. I tried to fix it with some glue so i did not have to return it, but it still would not work.
#2 None of the pieces in the row actually line up with each other.
#3 the cardboard that the faces come on seems more like paper than actual cardboard (See Picture). Two pieces had scratches on them already. You can tell that only the cheapest plastic possible was used to created this game. For the $25 price being charged on Amazon, you'd imagine it being a bit sturdier, but no, this is the type of plastic you can find in toys at the dollar store or Poundland.
Also I thought that this game was made by Hasbro, but it is only licensed out by them to some company called Winning Moves Games.
Do not Recommend; Colors are off leading to Frustrations
By Jessica White
I bought this for my daughter to work on her visual discrimination skills. I was really disappointed to find that some of the colors on the cards that are drawn don't match the colors on the board images. For example, black appears as black on the board images and as brown on the cards. As a result, my children unintentionally give incorrect answers leading to frustrating results.
For example - one child asks "Does your person have black hair?" to which the other responds "No". This inevitably leads to accusations later in the game - "You said your person didn't have black hair!! You cheated!". When. in fact, no one cheated. Net, the cards do not look as intended and I would not purchase this version of the game.
An oldie but a goodie
By Collin
If you are familiar with the original game from the 70's and 80's this is the same game. It's a great game for family game time. I play this with my 5 year old and not only is it fun for both he and I, but I can see the wheels turning in his head as he tries to formulate the best question to figure out who it is that I have. It's also a great way to get him to learn phonetics because he has to read the names in order to call them out. The only real issue is that the backgrounds of the characters are white which makes it hard for my son to tell if the character has white hair, especially if they are bald on top with white hair on the sides. A minor issue is that there is zero diversity in the game. The original game had Latinos, African Americans, and Whites but in this version everyone is white. It's not enough to warrant stars being removed but it was easily noticeable as soon as I started putting the game together.
Pros:
An oldie but a goodie
By Collin
If you are familiar with the original game from the 70's and 80's this is the same game. It's a great game for family game time. I play this with my 5 year old and not only is it fun for both he and I, but I can see the wheels turning in his head as he tries to formulate the best question to figure out who it is that I have. It's also a great way to get him to learn phonetics because he has to read the names in order to call them out. The only real issue is that the backgrounds of the characters are white which makes it hard for my son to tell if the character has white hair, especially if they are bald on top with white hair on the sides. A minor issue is that there is zero diversity in the game. The original game had Latinos, African Americans, and Whites but in this version everyone is white. It's not enough to warrant stars being removed but it was easily noticeable as soon as I started putting the game together.
Pros:
- Helps young readers learn phonetics (Phil for example)
- Helps build a foundation for problem solving skills
- Just plain fun
Cons:
- White hair is blends in with the background of the cards
- Everyone is white
Good game for the young ones. Subpar manufacturing
By Cactus
Great game to play once in a while. It would be most fun for ages 6-13, but I encourage older siblings and parents to play with people in that age range to get some quality time in with them. The first “Guess Who” board game I remember playing with was sometime in the mid-1990s, and it was sturdy. Unfortunately, as the years have gone by, the construction of the board game has become increasingly more flimsy. It takes some of the fun out of it, because some character cards fall out of their slots, and some slots are weak enough to break easily. Booo!
On another note, if you get bored of the original game, you could print out photos of people in your life (or celebrities) and make 2 cards for each character and play that way.
