Clarendon Games Priorities Game Review!
Want to avoid awkward silences at parties, family reunions, team building events? Bring out Clarendon Games’s Priorities game. Clarendon Games’s Priorities is all about relationships. How well do you know your fellow players? And you’re all playing together to beat the game, rather than each other. It’s quick, fun, and helps the players get to know each other better with each round.
What’s in the box?
This is a card-based game, so you just need the 200 cards, the white board, and the dry-erase pen. The cards have a number and a topic on one side and a letter on the other. The cards are shuffled and placed face-up in the middle of the table. For each round there’s a target player and they take control of the white board and pen for their turn.
TOP TIP: If you want to include with younger players, sort through the cards and create age-appropriate decks. Keep track of the individual decks by making a list of the numbers in each age group so you can easily sort through them for your next game.
How to play Clarendon Games’s Priorities:
The target player deals the top five cards in a row in front of themselves. The target player considers the topics on those five cards only and ranks them in order from 1 through 5 on the white board, keeping their responses hidden from the other players.
TOP TIP: If you’re playing with littles, they can write the number of the card instead of the word. You can do that even if you’re all adults.
Once the target player has ranked the topics in order, they flip the white board upside down on the table and then the other players get their turn. They work together to try to guess the order that the target player has ranked the topics and they note their response by reordering the cards on the table into their ranked order. The target player then flips the white board and the responses are compared. The correctly-ranked cards belong to the players and the incorrectly-ranked cards belong to the game. Be sure to keep those cards separate, because the letters on the back are significant now. The target player changes with each round.
How to Win Clarendon Games’s Priorities:
Keep playing until either the game or the players can spell priorities with the letters on the backs of their cards. If you want to make the game a little quicker, you can stop the game when either the game or the players have won ten cards.
Clarendon Games’s Priorities is a fun way to learn more about your fellow players. When I learned about this game, I thought my nieces and nephews (who live on opposite sides of the country) could play the game to get to know each other better when we gather at the holidays. It’s a quick and easy game with no moving parts (well, just a few and they don’t move very much), making it perfect for travel and small spaces. Clarendon Games’s Priorities is for 2 or more players and you really can play with as many people as you want.
TOP TIP: If you want to play with a lot of people, you might want to consider playing for points (the instructions include a points-based alternative), instead of trying to build the word Priorities or get to ten cards. You’ll want as many rounds as possible, so each player gets a chance to be the target player. You could also set the rule that the game ends when each player has been the target and the winner is determined by who has the most cards, the player or the game.
Priorities is designed for players who are fourteen or older, but, as mentioned above, you can make the game friendly for younger players by sorting the deck. The game is collaborative rather than competitive, so it can be fun for younger players, too, even if they might need a helping hand with the writing or ranking. If the target is younger, they can always name an older teammate (per turn, it doesn’t always have to be the same person) to go into another room to confer on the ranking. It’s also extremely flexible, so you can adjust the gameplay so that it fits the group of players game by game.
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٭٭٭٭٭Highly recommended
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