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Whilst this game is a silly bit of fun, it is not without some flaws. Firstly, the cards are heavily biased towards modern culture and celebrities. For a modern audience, this probably wouldn’t be an issue, but if playing with all generations of your family it may result in a few blank expressions. With the correct audience, this game will be full of laughter at the random celebrity rhymes, but with the wrong audience you will have 30 seconds of bewildered silence each round. However, if it’s yellow then you have to act out a rhyme based on a particular celebrity. For example, ‘Danny Dyer on a high wire’ or rather bizarrely ‘Tom Cruise stroking kangaroos.’ There are three different types of cards, but all of them are based around the same principle – they’re all rhyming pairs. Throw the coloured dice and land on pink and you have to read a description from the ‘Solve It’ pile. For example ‘Olympic diver making music with a small-stringed Hawaiian guitar’ is ‘Tom Daley playing the ukulele’. But really these are small criticisms. The beauty of When in Rome for me is two fold. Firstly it broadens the appeal of Alexa beyond listening to music (which is, let’s face it, what most of us still use it for).

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Obama Llama 2 is a reprint of the successful party game Obama Llama, adding in a mixture of funny characters and creatures like Severus Snape and a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The original was just about famous people. As such, this version works a little better with families. Not that you need to know who the person is, but it does help to ease peoples concerns. Whilst this game is a silly bit of fun, it is not without some flaws. Firstly, the cards are heavily biased towards modern culture and celebrities. For a modern audience, this probably wouldn't be an issue, but if playing with all generations of your family it may result in a few blank expressions. With the correct audience, this game will be full of laughter at the random celebrity rhymes, but with the wrong audience you will have 30 seconds of bewildered silence each round. For describe cards, you simply need to describe the phrase without using any of the words featured in the phrase. With act cards, your team can see the celebrity on the reverse of the card whilst you do your best to act out what the celebrity is doing. For example Orlando Bloom using a broom. Personally, the easiest cards for players with little celebrity knowledge are the solve it cards. These cards just feature sentences which are read out. Your team just has to guess the rhyming phrase from the sentence alone.

I would assume that India would pay close attention to, for example, western officials coming to Dharamsala – I think they’d want to monitor that in detail,” said Prof Robert Barnett, the former director of the Tibet studies programme at Columbia University. “Perhaps, is the Dalai Lama asking them for asylum? I think that kind of concern would matter a lot to them.”Find two Rhyming Pair cards that rhyme to keep them. The team with the most pairs at the end of the game wins. Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Northern Ireland and the Scottish Highlands) may take longer to reach you. Sure you can get new versions, but wouldn’t it be great if new questions were added all the time? (at least it would stop people cheating and learning all the questions). That person now has to silently act out the three rhymes on the other side of the card in 30 seconds, with their teammates shouting out possible rhymes. What really brings the game to life apart from some of the sound effects (such as the noise of the plane’s propellers as it flies to each city) are the authentic sounding local guides. In fact so authentic sounding that sometimes you have to ask Alexa to repeat what they’ve said as it’s quite difficult to follow.

In each round of Obama Llama, a player must roll a dice which, in turn, will tell them which pile to select a card from. These three piles have three different types of cards for the player to read from. Each card will have a rhyme on it, anything from Cara Delevingne on a

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There are 20 cities to choose from including London, Berlin, Rome and Istanbul in Europe and you can choose questions that are easy or hard for each city. Cons: A little complex working out instructions, rhyming pairs of celebrities starting to feel a bit dated.

The Dalai Lama, who has spent the past 18 months isolating in his compound in Dharamsala, is not known to carry a personal phone, according to two sources. Anyway, inspired by friend Peter Jenkinson over at Toyology, I thought I’d take a look at two of the latest board games: When in Rome which is is certainly one of the first, if not the first, Alexa-controlled board game and Obama Llama which is kind of like a modern take on Snap (it is currently being updated to Obama Llama 2 in time for Christmas). When in Rome India could have several motives for possible spying on Tibetan leaders but some in Dharamsala have concluded the question of succession may be a driving force. Naming successors to the Dalai Lama has sometimes taken years after the death of the title holder, and is usually led by the monk’s senior disciples, who interpret signs that lead them to the child next in line. One member of your team will roll a tri-coloured dice for each turn. The dice dictates the type of card they will choose: Describe, act or solve.So, whether it’s George Clooney pulling a mooney, King Kong playing ping pong or Michael Cane suffering a migraine, it is up to you to make sure your team know exactly what rhyme you’re trying to describe or act out. What are you waiting for!? Grab your teammates and go forth and rhyme! The artwork on the box and cards is very retro and light-hearted, which compliments the quirky nature of the game. All of the components fit nicely into the box and the overall manufacturing quality is high. The instructions are clear and easy to understand and we managed to get a game underway in about five minutes which was great. Gameplay Overview If you are tired of charades and want to jazz it up a bit, then this would be the ideal choice! You can not only describe the rhymes but you will also have acting cards where your quality mimes will be the key to your team’s success. Be warned though, as the 30 seconds you have to act out the three rhymes will fly by! Should you Buy it? Other motives for possible monitoring of Tibetan leaders may be more straightforward, including that the Dalai Lama and the community around him are a magnet for sensitive information about Tibet and regularly meet dignitaries from around the world.