Guess Who? Board Game | 
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| Brand: Hasbro
Category: Toy
List Price: $17.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  116 reviews
Sales Rank: 58
Batteries Included: No
Age: 6 - 12 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 2.1 x 10.6 x 15.8
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MPN: 004800
Model: 4800
UPC: 032244048005
EAN: 0032244048005
ASIN: B00000IWDR
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| Features:
| • | Logic-based board game | | • | Try to deduce the identity of their opponent's mystery person | | • | Ask the right questions to eliminate the wrong faces | | • | Assembly required | | • | For 2 players |
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Product Description
There's a mystery person on your opponent's card. Can you find the matching face in the crowd' Start with a gameboard full of silly-looking characters, then ask the right questions to eliminate the wrong faces! If you're first to discover your opponent's mystery person, you win! For 2 players. Contents: two plastic gameboard trays, 24 mystery cards, 48 face cards and face frames, two score keepers, eight rubber feet and instructions in English and Spanish. Assembly required. Colors and product may vary.
Editorial Review
A wonderful blend of deduction with a form of 20 Questions. Two players try to deduce the identity of their opponent's "Mystery Person." Using game boards with 48 frames apiece and an equal number of cards displaying character faces, players ask one another yes or no questions that help narrow the pool of possibilities. Through process of elimination, the identity of the Mystery Person slowly becomes evident. As kids' skill levels grow, their questions become more strategic, allowing them to solve the mystery faster and faster. The faces on the cards are cheerful and clever and designed to give subgroups among the 48 characters just enough similarities to challenge players. --Tom Keogh
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| Customer Reviews: Read 111 more reviews...
 Great board game January 6, 2009
My kids love this game and have had it for about 8 years. We gave this one to a cousin who had it on his Christmas list. He's now 6 and my kids will still play it with him....One of the "windows" cracked , but we place it in the holder carefully and it still works.
 Poor quality and boring game December 30, 2008
The game build quality is poor. You have to spend 30 minutes punching out the cards and holders, inserting the cards into the holders, then putting the holders into the boards. Then the card holders will constantly come out of the boards, and the cards comes out of the holders.
The game is also not that challenging for all but the youngest players since the character traits are not that varied.
 VERY CHEAPLY MADE December 30, 2008
I got this game for my daughter for Christmas and put it together tonight. It is VERY cheaply made. The pieces that you "flip up and down" will not stay on, they're constantly falling off and having to fix them every ten seconds takes the fun out of the game. The concept itself is fun and great for kids, but it's sad how greedy manufacturers are these days, it could be made much better.
 Good classic game, poorly constructed. December 26, 2008
The game is fine as outlined by most reviews on here, but the manufacturing leaves a lot to be desired (like so many things nowadays). I remember playing the 80s version and it was built to last and fun to use. This is flimsy and cheaply made.
Terrible Construction Ruins (A Mediocre) Game December 11, 2008
I do not recommend this game and cannot understand the 4.5 star average rating. Yes, my kids enjoy it. However, it is so poorly put together that its just really, really annoying to play. The plastic pieces routinely fall over, or come off entirely. The person pictures come out quite easily unless you tape them in place, and if you tape them they may not flip properly. It takes maybe 30-60 seconds of "set up" time to play a 2-4 minute game. While this isnt the end of the world, I personally find it quite annoying.
Here is how the game works: there are around 30 or 40 faces in the game. Each player randomly picks one card from the 40. Each player has a rack which includes cards for all the faces which are turned away from the opposing player so that only you can see the faces in your rack. Each trait (for example gender) is split so that there is a minority (i.e. there are only 6ish female faces, and 6ish black faces, etc...) and a majority (the remaining faces -- i.e. 20+ are male, 20+ are white, etc...). There are around 10 or so traits, all with this majority/minority trend -- gender, race, glasses, hats, bald, facial hair, etc... Every person seems to have at least one or more minority traits (i.e. its a man, but he is bald, or wearing a hat.) You ask a question, ie "is it a girl" and, depending on the answer, flip over the boys/girls on your rack to eliminate them, and by process of elimination, and by asking more questions eg "is the person bald" work down till there is only one person on your rack, which must be the person the opposing player picked. Whoever gets down to one left on their rack first (i.e. figures out who the other player picked first) wins. Getting lucky and picking the right minority trait to ask about is more useful than good logic.
I'm not overly PC or anything, but I just cant warm to a game the whole purpose of which is asking questions designed to exclude people with minority traits, so you can, by process of elimination, figure out who is left.
Moreover, the concept is so simple that I dont think the game is very educational. The kids (even the very young) quickly learn the basic concept. Once they learn it, there isnt any real learning left to do. (Yes, its true an adult can use more advanced logic to pick the "best" questions, but good luck explaining that to a young kid. Indeed, I bet there are plenty of adults that would not understand the logic behind selecting an optimal question.)
Skip it.
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