Tension: The Crazy Naming Game – First Impressions

Naming 10 of something is usually easy but in Tension…

…naming a SPECIFIC 10 of something is not.

Tension is a game for 2 teams of 2 or more people, in which you have 1 minute to name examples of a given subject, which could be anything from “Annoying personal habits” to “Foods that are naughty but nice”.

That’s the game…

Here’s an example of one of the cards.

So educational too right? 🙂 Well, some questions are like ‘Harry Potter Characters’ etc, they’re quite diverse.

You keep score on the most garish board I have ever seen.

Landing on a swirly mark moves you forward a number of spaces equal to the spaces you moved to land on it. This is interesting as you may want to ‘restrict yourself’ to 4-5 points just to land on a double space.

A Question Mark means you have to predict a number (after hearing the title of the round) and score exactly that in the round or don’t move at all.

I quite like games like this as an alternative to a ‘proper’ game in a long game day. There was often some kind of Lateral thought such as ‘Things that Fly’ had an answer of ‘Time’.

Tension Update July 2019

As far as quick and easy party games go this is a fun one. It’s similar to Mr Lister’s Quiz Shootout where you also have to name things from a category.

But with the latter, I think, you have EVERYTHING from that category to list from. In Tension, you could give a correct answer, but it might not be on the card.

I still don’t think there are many direct replacements for this game. I guess the ideas been done right, so, you just update it year after year?

This is available in supermarkets for next to nothing so it’s worth picking up for a bit of fun.

Jesta ThaRogue