This week’s game is Fun Facts by Repos Games. I loooove it! It is the perfect getting to know you game! We played it last Sunday night with my daughter and son-in-law. I got some laughter and meaningful conversation out of it, so that makes it a winner!

In this game, each person gets a plastic arrow and a dry erase marker. Then you take turns asking a question from the deck of cards. See examples below.

After each question is asked, everyone secretly writes a number on the arrow, as an answer. The person who asked the question puts down his or her arrow first, with the answer face down, then one by one you each put your arrow face down, guessing if your answer is above or below the arrows/answers that are already down. The goal is, as a group, to get your answers in perfect order, from lowest to highest numerical value. Some of the answers could be over 100, and for some questions, you limit your answer on a scale between 0-100. Then you turn over all the arrows to see if you got them all in ascending order. You get one point for each one in the right place.

So it’s a cooperative game to see how well you know each other.

So for example, for the question, “How much do you enjoy making lists? from 0-100” the players in the photo below have written answers between 11-99. You can see that some of the arrows were placed out of order. So the group collectively gets 6 out of a possible perfect score of 8 points. (I’m assuming the orange arrow at the bottom is below 11.)

A game consists of answering 8 questions. Then you compare your group’s score to the scoring scale printed on the instructions to see how well your group did. That’s it! It’s super simple and involves thinking, conversation and laughs! I give it 4 out of 5 stars. I took away a star because it’s marketed as a family game, at least on amazon, but some questions are not appropriate for children, such as “How many alcoholic drinks do you have a week?” If it’s going to be labeled as a family game, it shouldn’t have any questions like that.

So instead of following the rules that say to lay out 8 cards face down at the beginning to use all of those 8 for the game, my “house rule” is to let each person when it is that person’s turn, go through the cards until he or she finds one that resonates with him or her to ask. You might want to dump any cards along the way you find inappropriate.

I do hope you get this game and enjoy learning Fun Facts about your family and friends! I can’t wait to play it with my out-of-nest children as well with my neighborhood game gang. I think it will work for some Zoom game nights too. If you want more details about it, watch the Dice Tower review below.

You can even use this game in your homeschooling as it counts as language arts!

If you want to learn more about gameschooling, go here.

If you want a guide to using games remotely, as in playing games in Zoom, go here. You can play games with your friends and family across the world!