Ravensburger That's Not A Hat Card Game

We tried out the new party game, That’s Not a Hat. And let me just say, this one was a huge surprise how fun it was. I don’t remember the last time I’ve laughed that hard with a party game. The gameplay sounds so easy, almost child’s play. Each player gets a gift which players have to keep track of during the game using their memory. The first player takes the top card of the deck showing everyone what it is and then flips it face down and passes it to the player to their left or right, depending on the direction of the arrow on the back of the card. They say what the gift is and that player can accept it or reject it, saying it isn’t what they claimed it was. Whoever was wrong takes the card as a negative point. If you accept the gift, then you must pass your other ... MoreWe tried out the new party game, That’s Not a Hat. And let me just say, this one was a huge surprise how fun it was. I don’t remember the last time I’ve laughed that hard with a party game. The gameplay sounds so easy, almost child’s play. Each player gets a gift which players have to keep track of during the game using their memory. The first player takes the top card of the deck showing everyone what it is and then flips it face down and passes it to the player to their left or right, depending on the direction of the arrow on the back of the card. They say what the gift is and that player can accept it or reject it, saying it isn’t what they claimed it was. Whoever was wrong takes the card as a negative point. If you accept the gift, then you must pass your other gift, turning it face down if it isn’t already and say what it is. This continues going around until someone gets it wrong and a new gift is added from the deck. It may seem like a simple memory game, but as you watch your fellow players pass cards and struggle to remember what they were, you eventually forget what your card is when you get passed one and try to determine if they’re bluffing or not. So many moments of people thinking they know what gifts there are and then realizing you had no clue what gifts were actually where! The game says you can make it harder and give everyone two presents, but we struggled with just one that there never was a need to up the ante. Highly recommend this cheap little game at your next game night!

I Received this game from Ravensburger in exchange for my honest review. This is a fun, quick memory game that will appeal to a lot of different age groups, and is a good game for a group of up to 8 players. The rules are pretty simple and it doesn't take long for the game to become a memory challenge. Everyone starts with a card face up and the "gift shop" of cards is placed face up in the center. Player A takes a card/gift from the center, shows it to everyone, and then turns the card over and places it above his original card. On the back of a card is an arrow. Player A will gift this card to the person the arrow is pointing towards, saying: I would like to give you this xyz gift. If Player B believes that the card they got was the xyz gift, they accept it, and ... MoreI Received this game from Ravensburger in exchange for my honest review. This is a fun, quick memory game that will appeal to a lot of different age groups, and is a good game for a group of up to 8 players. The rules are pretty simple and it doesn't take long for the game to become a memory challenge. Everyone starts with a card face up and the "gift shop" of cards is placed face up in the center. Player A takes a card/gift from the center, shows it to everyone, and then turns the card over and places it above his original card. On the back of a card is an arrow. Player A will gift this card to the person the arrow is pointing towards, saying: I would like to give you this xyz gift. If Player B believes that the card they got was the xyz gift, they accept it, and place that card above their card. Now Player B will turn over his card and gift it to the person the arrow is pointing to, once again saying: "I'd like to give you this abc gift. If Player B doesn't believe it is the xyz gift, they will say, "that is not an xyz". If Player A was bluffing, they move the card aside near them, if they were not, then Player B does that and that will draw a card and show it to everyone. It doesn't take long before all the cards are face down, and it becomes quite the challenge to keep track of who has which card, including your own. Soon everyone is laughing at how impossible it is to keep track of the cards. The game/round ends when one person has collect 3 wrong guess cards. The winner is the one or ones who has the fewest wrong guesses. You could really say this games ends when someone loses, more than someone wins. Since it's a quick game, it's easy to play a few rounds, and then it really gets challenging, since you might be remembering gifts from previous games. Also, you are supposed to be consistent in calling the gift the same thing the original player said it was, example: Bicycle vs. bike. We didn't play it that way, but that would add to the challenge for sure. We liked this game a lot.

We had so much fun playing this card game. At the start, we thought that it was going to be really easy but quickly learned that we were so wrong. As cards move left and right, it is a real challenge to your memory and leads to lots of laughter as the players try to pass their gifts off as other things, sometimes claiming the same item multiple turns in a row. Then, when someone challenges them, the realization of whether they were right or wrong often lead to more laughter. The more people you play with the harder it is to keep track and the more laughter that ensues. We received our game from Tryazon sponsored by Ravensburger to enjoy for our game night.