{"id":8,"date":"2015-08-12T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/judgegames\/?p=8"},"modified":"2015-08-10T17:31:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T17:31:57","slug":"times-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/judgegames\/2015\/08\/12\/times-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Time’s Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Kaja & Sebastian for helping design the judge version and to the Polish judge community for testing this at our conference.<\/em><\/p>\n

What\u2019s the original game like?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Time\u2019s Up<\/a> is a hilarious party game. The game combines charades and taboo, while adding\"\" a very interesting twist. The game is played with 40 randomly selected cards with different phrases (there are multiple versions of the game depending on your preference). The game is played over the course of three rounds \u2013 each one using the same forty cards.<\/p>\n

In round 1, a player starts describing the phrase on the first card to their partner. If the partner guesses correctly, they get the card and move on to the next one. After thirty seconds their turn is over and play passes to the left. Continue until the deck runs out. Afterwards count the cards collected by each team \u2013 each card is worth one points.<\/p>\n

The cards are then shuffled and round two begins. It plays much like round 1, but clues are one word only. An incorrect guess means you have to go on to the next card. Round 3 repeats this, but with charades instead of words.<\/p>\n

The game is fascinating, because each play group creates their own version of references that could be completely meaningless to someone not in the game. I\u2019ll give an example below.<\/p>\n

You can find the full rules book online, but I recommend picking up the game, because it\u2019s a treat at parties.<\/p>\n

The Magic Variant<\/strong><\/p>\n

For an audience of Magic judges we prepared a deck containing the names of Magic sets. (I listed them at the end of the article \u2013 we created 42 cards, which allowed some variance between games.) We did introduce several house rules to make the game play more interesting:<\/p>\n