Who hasn’t performed a “get-to-know-you” sport earlier than?
They’re in every single place.
Everytime you discover a newly fashioned group of individuals, you’ll discover a “get to know one another” exercise. We encounter them in school, at work, and at household reunions. Many such actions are merely spoken and don’t embrace any typical game-type parts. There are additionally a slew of printed celebration video games that search to realize comparable outcomes.
So why are we reviewing Do You Even Know Me? – the same sport that’s new on the scene?
As a result of we respect the work of the one who created it!
(And we benefit from the sport.)
We first grew to become conversant in Brooke Romney by her written work – most notably “52 Trendy Manners for Immediately’s Teenagers“.
It’s such a incredible guidebook for households eager to instill values of their youngsters (and it’s nice for adults too).
We additionally purchased her follow-up e-book, “52 Trendy Manners for Children” and share the messages every week with our youngsters by our household social media group account. The ideas are nonetheless useful despite the fact that our youngsters are younger adults and have locations of their very own.
They’re spiral sure books that we maintain out on our kitchen desk with the message for the week on massive show. They’re nice reminders of easy methods to behave in varied conditions. They usually all the time give us one thing nice to consider as we go them ceaselessly.
So when Brooke Romney introduced she was making a household sport, we couldn’t wait to test it out. We purchased a duplicate of Do You Even Know Me? in January and performed it at our subsequent household dinner.
The right way to play Do You Even Know Me?
Like most get-to-know-you video games, Do You Even Know Me? is a brilliant easy sport to play. Factors are awarded to gamers, however the actual objective of the sport is discovering out extra about these round you.
To start, each participant takes their very own set of 4 playing cards (A, B, C, D) to make use of for the multiple-choice solutions and the BFF playing cards are set within the heart of the desk. That’s all there’s to arrange.
The sport consists of 300 mulitple-choice questions that cowl all kinds of matters and conditions. Gamers take turns studying a query and the 4 potential solutions. After a participant reads the query and solutions, they choose one of many solutions and place their matching card face down in entrance of them. All different gamers choose a card from their hand that they consider matches the participant who learn the query.
As soon as everybody has chosen their card, they’re all revealed. Anybody who matches the participant who learn the query, takes a BFF card for his or her rating pile.
Play continues clockwise with the subsequent participant.
The sport ends…at any time when the gamers select to finish the sport.
That may be plenty of rounds, plenty of BFF playing cards gained, or a set time restrict.
The participant with probably the most BFF playing cards wins the sport.
Can the entire household get pleasure from Do You Even Know Me?
Do You Even Know Me? was designed utterly with household sport play in thoughts. And that’s precisely the place it hits nicely – with household play.
It’s possible you’ll suppose you recognize individuals in your loved ones nicely, however you continue to might not know the way they’re going to reply these questions. And it’s nice getting to seek out out!
Actually, I bought the fewest BFF playing cards once we performed for the primary time with our crew. You’d suppose a father ought to know these items.
The number of questions is a superb combine. Some are considerate and introspective and others are plain enjoyable.
Listed below are some examples:
If I get up late, I’ll skip
- A. Breakfast. I can all the time eat an early lunch.
- B. Showering. Deodorant and a few cologne ought to do the trick.
- C. Brushing my tooth. That’s what gum is for, proper?
- D. Make up. Everybody likes a pure face each every so often.
On the ocean, you’ll most frequently discover me
- A. Scuba diving or snorkeling.
- B. Browsing or boogie boarding
- C. Taking part in video games within the sand or exercising.
- D. Laying out or studying.
I spend most of my time occupied with
- A. Folks. Relationships are my high precedence.
- B. Spirituality. What’s extra vital than everlasting truths?
- C. Work/Schooling. I selected this area as a result of it fascinates me.
- D. Journey. Exploring new locations and doing new issues is what excites me most.
The sport can be nice to play with pals. And I’ve taken the sport to the workplace to play with coworkers as nicely.
In each setting, the questions have been nice dialog starters. And that’s good for after-dinner household gatherings.
Despite the fact that it’s promoted as a sport (due to the BFF playing cards and scoring), we contemplate it extra of only a enjoyable dialog exercise. Sure, we’re aggressive and prefer to tout what number of BFF playing cards we get, however actually we don’t care a lot about profitable once we play Do You Even Know Me?
How does Do You Even Know Me? rating on our “Let’s Play Once more” sport meter?
As you may see in our part on How To Play, the sport finish situation may be very open-ended. As such, we are able to actually play so long as we wish.
The primary time we performed, we meant to play only one spherical. However after we completed that spherical, we wished to know extra, so we simply saved enjoying.
And that’s the best way it goes most instances we play.
We additionally like how moveable the sport is – so we are able to simply take it with us to bigger household gatherings and play many times.
If this sounds enjoyable for your loved ones gatherings, seize a duplicate of Do You Even Know Me?
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