Who hasn’t performed a “get-to-know-you” sport earlier than?
They’re everywhere.
Everytime you discover a newly shaped group of individuals, you’ll discover a “get to know one another” exercise. We encounter them at college, 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 social gathering video games that search to realize related outcomes.
So why are we reviewing Do You Even Know Me? – an identical sport that’s new on the scene?
As a result of we admire the work of the one who created it!
(And we benefit from the sport.)
We first turned acquainted with Brooke Romney by means of her written work – most notably “52 Fashionable Manners for Immediately’s Teenagers“.
It’s such a unbelievable guidebook for households eager to instill values of their kids (and it’s nice for adults too).
We additionally purchased her follow-up ebook, “52 Fashionable Manners for Children” and share the messages every week with our youngsters by means of our household social media group account. The rules are nonetheless beneficial despite the fact that our youngsters are younger adults and have locations of their very own.
They’re spiral certain books that we preserve out on our kitchen desk with the message for the week on huge show. They’re nice reminders of learn how to behave in varied conditions. They usually at all times give us one thing nice to consider as we go them regularly.
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.
Find out how 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 true function 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 middle of the desk. That’s all there may be 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 following participant.
The sport ends…each time the gamers select to finish the sport.
That may be numerous rounds, numerous 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 take pleasure in Do You Even Know Me?
Do You Even Know Me? was designed fully with household sport play in thoughts. And that’s precisely the place it hits effectively – with household play.
You might assume you recognize folks in your loved ones effectively, however you continue to might not know the way they’re going to reply these questions. And it’s nice getting to search out out!
In actual fact, I received the fewest BFF playing cards once we performed for the primary time with our crew. You’d assume 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 at all times eat an early lunch.
- B. Showering. Deodorant and a few cologne ought to do the trick.
- C. Brushing my enamel. That’s what gum is for, proper?
- D. Make up. Everybody likes a pure face each now and again.
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 interested by
- A. Folks. Relationships are my prime precedence.
- B. Spirituality. What’s extra essential than everlasting truths?
- C. Work/Schooling. I selected this discipline 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 associates. And I’ve taken the sport to the workplace to play with coworkers as effectively.
In each setting, the questions have been nice dialog starters. And that’s good for after-dinner household gatherings.
Regardless 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 wish 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 will 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 taking part in.
And that’s the best way it goes most occasions we play.
We additionally like how transportable the sport is – so we will 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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