Cries of ‘what’s that meant to be?’ and ‘you though this was what?’ resonate around the table.
Each new reveal is accompanied by shock, laughter and people trying not to spit out their drink. With each card turned over your memories turn sour and dark as things inevitably take a turn for the worse. You’ll look at it fondly, remebering each line and stroke like it was only ten minutes ago. One by one you will turn over your stack of drawings and words, commencing with your original sketch. The real laughs come when your original work of art comes back round to its rightful home.
“3 of the Spice Girls they are numbered” is a personal favourite. Drawing and interpreting is funny, frustrating and horrifying in equal measure as you try and decipher the scrawls, see what they did there, of the artistically challenged and sketch the words of those who have seen sights no one should see. They will look at you with a mixture….you get the idea. This new description now becomes the subject of drawing for the next person on your left. The ritual complete, they will put a new dry wipe sheet on top of your picture and write a description of what they have seen They will curse your name and those of your family. Then at you with a mixture of disgust and confusion. The new owner of your work of art will look at it. Once done everyone passes their masterpiece to the person on the left. Every round each player gets a subject to draw.
My regular group had grown in number and I was now seeking out games to potentially accommodate 7 players and I realised Scrawl fitted the bill as it would take up to 8 players and had a short play time. Whilst I had fun I’d kind of forgotten about it till this year. Originally released in 2016 I had first played Scrawl when Tabletop Cafe was still open in Edinburgh. Frankly it’s probably better if you can’t. This is a party game of Pictionary meets Telephone that requires absolutely no ability to draw. If you’ve listened to our Brainwaves Awards Show Special, you’ll know that I nominated Scrawl from Big Potato Games as my game of the year.
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