2011 · Humor

Ooga Booga

Players act as competing clan members trading guttural words and gestures to build a growing chain of sounds. Each round, players keep three hidden cards that show a primitive “word” plus an illustration and sometimes an action; the starting player plays a card, makes its sound, and targets another player who must add a card and repeat the sequence, including any gestures, then target a different player. Rounds end when a player is accused of an error—if the accusation is correct the accused takes the central pile and a card from each accuser, otherwise the accusers split the pile—or when a player successfully plays and repeats a third card and shouts the final phrase, allowing that player to distribute the pile as a reward. Hands are refilled to three between rounds; when the draw deck runs out the player with the fewest cards wins.

groupPlayers

3–6 best 6

schedulePlaying time

10 min

cakeAge

7+

psychologyComplexity

1 / 5