Color Addict Game Review
Reviewed by Melody Floyde
As a family we love playing games and are always keen to try out new games, so I was very happy to be asked to review the Color Addict game from Cartamundi as a potential Easter gift. At Easter my boys tend to be overwhelmed with chocolate gifts, most of which sit in the cupboard for months before I either succumb to temptation or bin them, so a game would be a great alternative gift for them at Easter. I was keen to see if Color Addict would fit the bill.
My initial impressions of the Color Addict game were good, it comes in a compact brightly coloured box with promises that the game would be “highly addictive” and I can confirm that this is definitely the case. I’ve lost count of the number of times my 8-year-old son and I have played the game this week already.
Color Addict is a card game for players aged 7+ and for 2-6 players. The cards are printed with the names of colours in various coloured text (not necessarily the same colour as the word), along with coloured splodges, which are just there to confuse you even more than the game itself! The cards themselves are good quality and glossy. The instructions are handily printed inside the lid of the box, which is great as it means they won’t get lost over time and are always to hand.
The aim of the game is to be the first player to get rid of all of your cards, which are played by matching them in colour to the card in the middle of the table. The cards are shuffled and dealt evenly to all the players, then one card is turned up in the centre of the table. Each player has three cards in their hand and their own draw piles to pick cards from. Sounds simple we thought, but it isn’t quite as straightforward due to the name of the colour on each card not necessarily being the same as the colour text in which it is printed and there being various options for playing the cards.
There are three different ways to play. Firstly, we tried the basic game, where we only used the cards with Red, Blue, Yellow and Green written on them, so there were less cards to contend with than the full game. Once we had got the hang of this (and I confess it did take me a while to get my head around working out which colour could be played and when) we graduated to using the full set of cards and colours. The first option and our preferred option is the game we named the “quick fire” one, this means that there are no turns taken so everyone tries to play their cards as fast as possible. We really enjoyed this and found it great fun, and on average this took us about 5 minutes. The other option is a more civilised game where the players take it in turns to play their cards which did make the game last longer, about 10-15 minutes on average, but we felt wasn’t as exciting as “quick fire” and my son got a bit bored, but he does have a short attention span, I actually found it a little less stressful to have time to think about which card to play!
We did stumble across an unexpected problem with the game in that, when we tried to play the game with my partner who is colour blind, he did not share our enthusiasm as he really struggled to tell the difference between some of the colours – so a top tip is that this game isn’t really suitable for anyone who is colour blind (although this was perhaps obvious from the title!).
Overall, we have really loved Color Addict, it is definitely addictive, it gets you thinking and is great fun. It’s also compact enough to be able to take with us when we go away and we will definitely be packing it for our Easter break this year. This would make a brilliant Easter gift for any game lovers.
The game retails at £9.99 and I would highly recommend you go and buy it now!
We gave this game a score of 5 out of 5 (if we could give more we would!)
Rating: 5/5
RRP: £9.99
Available to buy from Amazon here.
