Namits - the Game of Think: Challenge

I have children in multiple age groups for these games so I purchased all three versions. We took a 5 hour car ride & the cards seemed to entertain my teenager, my elementary schooler, & my pre-k child. We spend about 20 minutes at a time playing it. These are also good tools to use at the dinner table. The questions help to make everyone think. For example name everything you can think of that starts with the letter "A", "B", "C", "D". We all took turns on each letter until we could think of no more answers. Each card has one open ended question and four possible topics to complete the question. They are double sided to save space & plastic for durability. In my family, they have been stepped on, rolled over, thrown around, and spilled on & they look just like they did when I took them out of the package. All & all I am satisfied with my purchase.

This was plenty of fun for our family. We like word games, we like to encourage playing games in the car (as opposed to fighting or watching movies :) ), and we have an extensive vocabulary. That made this game a good match for us.The categories are varied and the rules are simple. In fact the rules are very fluid -- you can play this many different ways -- as an individual, as a group, on paper, etc. The way we chose to play is to pick a category from the cards -- One of my favorites: "Things that jiggle" -- and then we all take turns naming something out loud that fits in that category, the last person that can still come up with something is the winner and gets to pick the next category.Before I made this purchase I thought .... do I really need a set of cards to play this game??? Well, lets be honest -- no you don't really, you could just make up categories on your own. However, when you are tired and on a long trip, and you can just flip to a card instead of trying to come up with a category on your own ... it makes it a little easier. And when you can pull out the ring of cards and announce "We're going to play Namits!" It sounds a little bit more fun and makes people more willing to participate.

These cards are a great idea to keep kids occupied - they also encourage conversation and gets them thinking about things. I bought these to keep my nieces busy - at first I was only taking them out when I thought they were getting restless and bored, but after a while they started asking if they can play the card game. They love it!

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