5 Second Rule Uncensored Review

Reviewed by David Savage

We are coming up to that time of year where we gather our friends and families around and enjoy the festive season of Christmas and New Year. With it getting darker earlier, much colder and an excuse to stay at home in the warm, board games can be a fun way to spend the cold, dark evenings. We have a lot of board games in our house and love to send quality family time playing them, but most of our games are just that – family games! So what about when the kids go bed? You don’t want to play games aimed at families with your adult friends and family members! Well there are a lot of adult party games on the market, with more appearing all the time, and we were sent a new variation of an old classic family game. We have thoroughly enjoyed playing 5 Second Rule Jr as a family before, but were really excited to try out the adults only version – 5 Second Rule Uncensored!

5 Second Rule Uncensored is a game for adults, aged 17 years plus, and is for 3 or more players. As with the family version that most people know, you have 5 seconds to name 3 things on the card – except this time you can delve into depths of a smutty mind to get the answers; Name 3 “Things that you can cover in chocolate” or “Things in a bedside table” to the outright dirty “Things you shouldn’t do to your anus” or “Ways to have an orgasm”.

In the box is:

• 150 doubled-sided question cards in a card box
• Twisted “zoop” timer
• Rules

This is an extremely easy game to setup (or “FOREPLAY” as described in the rules). Just place the question cards in their box and the timer in the centre of the table and you’re ready to go. Decide how many rounds you are going to play (larger groups is suggested 3 rounds, small groups 4 or 5, but it all depends on how long you want to play). The starting player selects a card and reads it out, flips over the timer, the timer makes a zoop sound, and you have 5 seconds (until all the balls have reached the bottom of the timer) to name 3 things for the topic on the card. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? Nope, under pressure it is quite difficult. If you can’t name 3 things the next player along has to (without using the answers from any previous player). If a player can name three things, they are awarded the point (they keep the card), if no one can get all three and the card ends up back with the starting player they are awarded the point by default. The player to the right of the starting player then picks a card and it starts again until the agreed upon number of rounds has finished.

When the agreed upon number of rounds has finished, “The Climax”, the player with the most cards/points is the winner.

Overall, we had lots of fun playing 5 Second Rule Uncensored. It is a game that is definitely not for the prudish or easily embarrassed and certainly not for children. It has a really exciting fast pace and the question cards can be quite hilarious (with some of the answers the players come up with even more so). Even some of the more innocuous questions can end up with some truly belly-hurting laughter. The game is very easy to understand and play.

The timer is rather unique with several small ball-bearings running down a twisted path (which equates to 5 seconds when they all reach the bottom) and has a “zoop” noise when first starts that has nothing at all to do with the timing, it’s just annoying – but maybe that’s the point adding that bit more pressure.

This would make an excellent game over the festive period (and any other time) for a group of open-minded friends, you certainly will be falling over with laughter; not only at some of the questions but also some of the answers (and wondering how your best friends would know “foods you can use during sex” or “places you’d find prostitutes”).

5 Second Rule Uncensored is lots of fun, definitely for adults and probably not something you would want to play with your mum!

Rating: 5/5

RRP: £14.99

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