Mixed groups (men, women, adults, and children) of up to 10 people can play Hues and Cues at one time. This game inspires both conversation and laughter with some of the cues people come up with! Only one piece can be placed on each space. The players made their first guess based on the clue “turquoise”. Two-Word Cue While fun I do have to say the game isn’t nearly as easy to play as I was expecting it to be. The basic concept is simple enough to grasp but coming up with good cues is surprisingly difficult. While coming up with something that fits a colour isn’t hard, trying to think of something that is uniquely that colour can prove to be much harder than you would expect. You can place your second piece on any space on the gameboard that doesn’t already have another piece on it. For their two word cue the cue giver choose to say “Easter grass”. After receiving the two word cue, the players make their second guess at the round’s color. Scoring in Hues and Cues

Playing Hues and Cues doesn’t require a big time commitment…. it doesn’t drag on or take hours to play. (I’m looking at you, Monopoly!) Ways to play A color game for ‘Family Game Night’ Yes. Because of my experience with colour theory, I knew everyone could describe colours using their own recollections – whether it’s comparing it to food items, their first car or their favourite Pokemon. That became the starting point. I thought I had a great word cue to give for the green color I chose. But when I found it on the board and saw the huge variety of hues around it, my mind started scrambling for how my cue would be interpreted. Would it be descriptive enough? If you happen to be looking for a detailed colour based game that requires you to know Pantone colour codes and CMYK values, you aren’t going to find that here. Hues and Cues is a light party game featuring colours, which doesn’t go into any more depth than what colour red do you think of when I say “Macintosh”. The objective of Hues and Cues is to score more points than the other players by giving good color cues, and figuring out the other players’ cues. Setup for Hues and CuesIf the cue giver is happy with the number of pieces placed in the scoring zone from their first cue, they can choose to skip their second cue. If they choose to skip the second cue, the other players do not get to make a second guess. Second Guesses Hopefully our experience with the game, and this review, will help you judge if Hues and Cues might be a game your family and friends would enjoy playing. In fact, when playing with that group we don’t stop with just being the cue-giver twice. We just keep going until our lunch break is over. Each player chooses a color of playing pieces. You will take the three pieces of the color you chose.

To make the game easier for younger players, you can choose to use a variant rule. Instead of drawing a card, the players will choose any color they want from the gameboard. This allows players to choose a color that they can give better cues for. The player should write down the coordinates of the color they chose. One-Word Cue Is zero a valid answer?! When something comes to mind, I write it down and review it later when I have a few moments to see if there’s any validity in the thought. Other than that, I don’t have any formal creative process – or even scheduled time set aside to work on them! In Hues and Cues, players are trying to guess a specific colour from a grid of 480 different colours based on one word and then two word clues. Once everyone has made their guess they get points for how close their guesses are to the target colour. Dead simple. Each player then scores the two pieces they placed on the gameboard. They will score points based on where their pieces are located in relation to the color for the round. When we first opened the game, read the rules, and sat down to play, we thought it sounded super simple.After the cue giver gives their second cue, the other players get to place their remaining piece on the gameboard. For their two word cue, the cue giver decided to say “cotton candy”. The rest of the players then made their second guesses.