The Good Game Company: I’m a Poet - Rhyming Riddle Card Game, Funny Word Guessing Brain Teasers, Bonkers Good Time Party Play, Family 12+, 3-6 Players

This is a very clever fun game. It’s a great game for adults. The rhymes are hilarious! We have also played this game with kids ages 10-15 … who occasionally didn’t have a reference point for some of the riddle cards; but they still enjoyed the challenge!

I used this game in a poetry class with 11th graders. They had a great time with it. I love that you have to grab Willy Shakes before you shout out the answer! That way you don't have everyone shouting out answers!

Great game, we enjoyed the heck out of it. My teenager was a little young for some of the answers though

Although not purchased through Amazon, this is one of our favorite family games. It’s contemplative yet fast moving, well paced yet chaotic, thought provoking yet suddenly revealing. Stretching the mind for an answer and then realizing how the verbal clues fit together makes this a challenging, competitive and super fun family game!

This is a fun game, but it is not a “creative” game. At least, it’s not a game where you come up with riddles or rhymes of your own. Instead, this is a trivia game that uses rhymes and poetry to provide clues. The game consists of 300 cards, a die, and a squishy Shakespeare in shades bust. The 300 cards each have a yellow and blue section, and you roll the die to decide which section to challenge the other players with. Each section has a rhyming phrase hint, a poem hint, and the solution written on it. If there’s some theme to yellow vs blue, it’s not obvious. On the other side of each card, you have either the neck/shoulders, face, or forehead of Shakespeare’s bust. On your turn to read, you roll the die, read the rhyming clue from the color section that matches the die, have everyone playing repeat the rhyming clue back to you, and then read the poem. Players who think they know the answer must race to grab the squishy bust and share their answer. If they’re correct, they claim the card. If they’re incorrect, you claim the card. If no one guesses, the card goes to the discard pile. If someone receives the card and now has all 3 sections of Shakespeare’s bust, they have won the game. I played this with my husband and our 10yo and 8yo children. We did not come across anything that seemed inappropriate for younger kids, and there were enough questions they could figure out that they enjoyed playing. Most of the name-specific trivia that we ran into seemed to focus more on fast food chains, which would be more universally known than actors, etc. I think this would be fun with larger groups too, but I’m not sure how the squishy bust would be kept in a position where everyone had an equally fair shot at grabbing it unless it were played while sitting on the floor, and that wouldn’t work for many grandparents. In summary, it’s a fun trivia game, but not one for expressing creativity. It seems family-friendly, but requires grabbing a squishy bust to answer first, which could go wrong a few ways. I’m glad we have it, but I’m not sure how much we will end up playing it in the future.

Who doesn't love an easy to follow, quick to play game that makes everyone playing think a little and laugh? This poet game with William Shakespeare is not too complicated, easy to follow, and quick-a full game can be played in about 20 minutes. My kids love that the bust of William Shakespeare is 1. like a stress ball so they can squeeze it (and occasionally throw it at one another) and 2. made a little more contemporary with the sunglasses and bling. The game is pretty easy to play: you set the bust of Shakespeare in the middle of the table, there's a card reader and a die to roll to determine which color clue you read. The clues are rhymes and couplets of the word which is not impossible, but makes you think. The winner is whoever gets enough cards to assemble a full picture of Shakespeare. It's fun, fast, and makes you think a little. This would be especially great in a middle school or high school classroom because you can have a large group play and it is a game that can be played in 20 minutes.

This I'm a Poet game is more of a guessing game for teens and adults. We had a lot of fun and enjoyed a fast paced game. Easy directions and nice quality game pieces and cards. Would make a great gift for adults. I am very happy with this order. Great game found on Amazon.

The premise of this game is very similar to Mad Gab, where you have a sort of homonym nonsense phrase clue that rhymes with the answer, but then you also have a second clue that's a much more in-depth clue that gets read if no one can figure it out. In order to guess at the answer, you have a squishy bust of Shakespeare that you grab, which is a nice touch. There are 300 cards in the deck with two different options on them, and you roll a die to determine which you read, although that still feels fairly low on the bar in terms of replayability if you have a good memory. The box design is very nice, and is in my opinion added value, as it will protect and prolong the components of the game, and the rules are explained very well. The only thing I wish that this game did better was add in more cards, or more possibilities per card, but I think they did a really good job with everything else.