When it comes to filling some of the extra time in the evenings, or during the school breaks, we often tend to crack out a simple board game to play with the kids. Junior Colour Brain is perfect for this situation, and suitable for almost every player.
Junior Colour Brain, much like the non-Junior version, is an incredibly simple and approachable game all about matching colours to a concept. In the core game the question cards are stuff like “Two Colours That Make Purple” or “Dorothy’s Shoes” in Disney Colour Brain it’s “Jackson Storm” or “Jessie’s Shirt Cuffs” while in Junior Colour Brain it’s “Shrek” or “Spongebob’s Pants”.
So, as you probably guessed, the main change is the subject matter. Junior Colour Brain is specifically aimed at a younger audience, although it does also tend to use less of the card colours in any one turn… because, that’s where the difficulty (beyond actually having the information to recall) comes into the game. Each of the question cards have a number on them which identifies the number of colours players should be guessing. Shrek, for instance, has three colours, Green, Brown and White.
If only one player guesses correctly then they win the card, otherwise its a tie. Play then continues like this until a winner is declared.
There are a few extra rules, namely that once a team has picked their colour they should shout Colourbrain, which then starts a thirty second timer for the other team to make their decision. We didn’t actually ever need to use this, and I don’t know if many people will given the subject matter. It might just be a design choice to (loudly) liven things up or keep attentions locked — but we never needed it.
There is also a Card Capture card, which is an advanced play that a lot of people playing with younger children probably won’t employ. That card allows you to nab eight of the opposition’s eleven colour cards at random, which naturally changes the game from a recollection game into something a little less balanced… however, each player has one of these and team colour cards have different backs to separate them, so its easily undone.
Junior Colour Brain was a fun and simple way for us and the kids to pass some time while away — we all really enjoyed it and will probably look into the other versions of it should the questions get a bit too repetitive.
Junior Colour Brain is available now from Amazon.
