Cluzzle Game
- Ages 8 and up; 3-6 players; 45-60 minutes
- 110 Cluzzle Cards, 6 Colors of Clay, 6 Sculpting Boards
- 1 Centerboard, 12 Question Tokens, 200 Guess Sheets
- 6 Pencils, 96 Bills, 1 Sand Timer, 1 Sand Timer
- iParenting Media Award, Major Fun Award, National Parenting Center
Product Description
The game of deduction that inspires creativity and heaps of laughter!
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Cluzzle Game
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- Publisher: North Star Games
- Label: North Star Games
- Studio: North Star Games
- Manufacturers Age: 8 years and up
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 10 reviews
- Sales Rank in Toys: #23727
Avg. Customer Review:
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: Nice fun game 2008-09-30
Comment: We principally bought this game because we were impressed by Wits and Wagers by the same manufacturer. While not as entertaining, we still have lots of fun with Cluzzle. The game is suitable for several age groups. The scoring scheme described seemed a little unintuitive, but we just reversed the rule to make it alright. Overall, a nice party game that can be enjoyed by groups of four or more.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: BUYER BEWARE 2008-08-24
Comment: EDIT - UPDATE
I originally rated this product three stars. I now have further information and on the basis of that rate only one star, though Amazon won't let me change my original star rating.
Here's the new information (original review is at the bottom)
BEWARE. As I noted in an earlier review, when we got this game the clay was no good. We asked the company to replace it.
We now have their response. They refuse. They say that the game was originally manufactured by a company that put bad clay in it, and when the company went out of business in 2006, their inventory of bad clay copies of the game were liquidated and sold to various companies.
Obviously, two years later, the bad games are still on the market.
Now North Star Games refuses to replace the bad clay in those games with usable clay. They say they can't afford to do that. So here we are, left with a useless game that the company won't stand behind.
If you are thinking of buying this game, MAKE SURE IT IS NOT ONE OF THE COPIES MANUFACTURED BY EAGLE GAMES (their name is on the lower left corner of the front of the box, at least on our copy). If it is, you will be wasting your money on a useless game.
If it is one of the newer version, you may be okay. It seems other people have bought the later versions, and are satisfied. I can't say.
But be aware that North Star apparently doesn't stand behind its games. They were the ones who made the mistake of selecting this company to partner with them, their name is on the box, but they expect the customer to pay for their mistake in choosing a bad supplier. That's their choice, but not trusting them ever again as a game company is my choice.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
North Star has fooled me once by letting me buy a game with their name on it that I can't play and they won't stand behind. I won't give them the chance to do that again.
Whether you choose to trust this company is up to you. You have the information: do with it what you will.
Original review:
We opened this game tonight to play with the family after dinner, but the clay in it was all dried up and unusable. We have asked the company to replace the clay, but until they do we can't play it.
We did read through the rules and try a round with drawing instead of sculpting. The substitution wasn't all that successful, but I can see that if we had good clay the game could be a lot of fun. So for the time being it only gets three stars. If we get the replacement clay and get to play it properly, I may send in a new review.
One caveat. The game really only works for a maximum of six players. We have a family of seven, so two people had to share one place. So if you have a bigger family or set of friends, this isn't the game to try.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: Thought it would be really kiddish--NOT SO! 2008-03-28
Comment: GREAT GAME! Best played with more players (5 or 6), but less will do. We purchased this game for my father. We were not sure if it would be fun or not, but it was only $15 at the time so we gave it a try. We thought it would be like "Sculturates" from Cranium, but it is much more of a puzzle. You have have to make your sculpture hard enough to not be guess on the first round, but easy enough to guess by the third round. Oh, and you want as few people to get it as possible--trickier than it sounds!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: Incredible game 2005-11-14
Comment: This is such GREAT game. I like it because it is unique, it was easy to learn, and was really fun to play.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: A "Cluzzle-ing" Review 2005-04-27
Comment: OVERVIEW: Cluzzle covers the somewhat odd "world" of clay puzzle making.
Basically, each player must create a puzzle (or should I say, "Cluzzle") of an object, action or idea, but must create it in such as way as to avoid it being too easy. The trade-off is that one must also be careful as to not make the puzzle too hard, or risk receiving no points at all for their masterpiece.
My group played this using the latest edition rules which do away with the question markers and allow for unlimited questions each round, with the only requirement being that one question must be answered before a new one is asked (to avoid yelling over each other). We also saw fit to play with a house rule that required the person asking the question to pause for a second after their question was answered, to allow time for someone else to start a question. This really helped keep things civil, and stopped one player from "grilling" another under a hot lamp (We tried the old "good cop/bad cop" routine, with mixed results).
In each round, the value of each cluzzle rises by one point until the last round in which cluzzles are worth 3 points. This point scheme applies to both the guesser, and the cluzzle-maker, with both being awarded for a correct guess. In some cases, multiple guessers are awarded.
THE HIGHS: First, the clay itself is quite nice. You can tell that there was an eye to quality here, and while the amount of clay is slightly limiting, it is nice to know that the next time you come back to play, the clay will still be moist enough to work with.
Additionally, we found that the choice of puzzles to create was very random, and didn't follow any one theme. This makes the game much more challenging, as one doesn't know if the puzzle will be a vegetable, or an olympic event. Also, there are enough catagories that it would be nearly impossible to recognize one from a previous playing.
The laugh factor is huge. We played with a 20-something crowd, and found that the jokes were pretty much endless. A good laugh was had by all, as we pointed out various alternate possibilities for puzzles, or scratched our heads trying to figure out just what that extra glob of clay was meant to represent.
THE LOWS: Only a few things come to mind here. First, the play money is a little tough to work with. It's thin, and sticks together, making it difficult to hand out. All of those playing felt that it would have been better to create a scoring track on the center board, and have each player place a dab of clay denoting their score.
Another item that may have been useful would have been a cardboard "blind" so that others couldn't see your puzzle in it's creation stage. Many times a player will cloud their puzzle in mystery by removing certain give-away attributes, and it would have been nice to have a screen that blocked others from seeing.
OVERALL IMPRESSION: I was a bit stunned by the response "Cluzzle" received. From the most serious players, all the way up to the strictly party-gamers, this one was a success. I had the impression that most felt this was a game not meant to be played at every opportunity, but rather one that would be called on to provide a little comic relief, especially after a longer, more serious game.
I would be inclined to recommend this game to families with young children, as this could be the "Pictionary" of their generation. I would also recommend this to people who like party games, or have friends that would provide extra humour to their creations.
Overall, this is a suprisingly good game worthy of the consideration of almost all gamer types.
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