I love playing board games, but I don’t get to do it very often these days. So when one of my BFFs came over to celebrate her birthday, I thought it would be a great time to bust out a new game I wanted to try: Tapple. This is a word game – one of my favorite kinds! – so it sounded like a lot of fun.

Tapple consists of a battery-powered game board and a deck of cards. Each card had a category and players much come up with an appropriate word in said category and hit the corresponding key on the board. So for example, if the card was “Ice Cream Flavors”, you’d hit the letter “C” for “Chocolate”. The timer gives you 10 seconds to come up with a word, then buzzes. The keys can not be selected again until the round is over, so once a letter is taken, you have to get creative! The categories range in everything from “Dog & Cat Breeds” to “Actors”.

This was quite fun – nothing makes you forget every word you’ve ever learned quite like a 10-second time limit, which of course is the fun and challenge of it! My friend gave some very interesting answers, because she’s a big cheater the instructions encourage “Creativity and imagination”. 😉 We laughed quite a bit coming up with silly answers! The main drawback for me is the fact that the gameboard excludes certain letters like “V” and “X” – there were two instances where I yelled out answers like “Valentine’s Day!” or “Xylophone!”, only to cry “Nooooooo!” when I realized they weren’t on the board. 😉 But I suppose that’s all part of the challenge!

Pick up your own Tapple Board Game on Amazon for $19.99!