You’ve Been Sentenced! | Review and Giveaway

November 9, 2009 by admin - Jennifer
Filed under Giveaways

Founded in 2004, we at McNeill Designs have never considered ourselves an ordinary game development firm. In fact, we prefer to title ourselves a “Think Tank,” where creative ideas are allowed to run wild and innovation isn’t a request, but a requirement.

Now, they say that great minds think alike. However, at McNeill Designs we sometimes find just the opposite, due to the sheer number of revolutionary game, novelty, and product ideas generated by our 40+ team members.
In 2005 this creativity was put to the test when we brought our first product to market. As our flagship offering, the unique card game “You’ve Been Sentenced!™” now sets the tone for all future McNeill Designs’ endeavors. The result of thousands of man-hours in research, development, design and redesign, this game succeeds where others have failed, by making sentence forming an entertaining, challenging, fun, and easy-to-learn game.

The latest in the evolution of games, “You’ve been Sentenced!” is the first game in history to really turn making sentences into a very funny, playable, and challenging game. Using a unique word deck of pentagon shaped cards containing conjugations of funny words, famous names from throughout history, familiar places, and wild cards, players have to make grammatically correct and justifiable sentences. The real fun begins when players have to read their sentences out loud and explain what they mean to the rest of players. They form the jury and vote thumbs up or down on whether the sentence and justification stand and the points are scored. 540 cards with over 2,500 words insure billions of possible sentences so the game is never repetitive and has unlimited re-play value.

For ages 8 and up, 30-40 min to play, 3-10 players

Can be found on McNeil Designs website for $24.95. Click here for more locations.

Reader’s Digest National Word Power Challenge™ Deck – This officially licensed deck is taken from the Word Power page of Reader’s Digest and the magazine’s national student vocabulary tournament the Reader’s Digest Word Power Challenge.
Sports Highlights Deck – Ready, set, hike! This deck contains the lingo of the field, court, and diamond, legendary sports heroes, technical terms, and favorite teams.
Sci-fi and Fantasy – Warn your student to set their phasers for stun and prepare for a warp speed ride through the most memorable of the ever popular sci-fi/fantasy genre!
Pop Culture Deck – Do you know Lindsay from Jen? What’s an IM? And how do you crump? If you don’t know, you may just learn something from your students!
Gourmet Cuisine Deck – A budding Rachael Ray or Emeril Lasgasse will appreciate this deck, which is filled to overflowing with famous chefs, exotic spices, and all of the kitchen gizmos necessary to cook up some fun!

Can be found on McNeil Designs website for $7.95. Click here for more locations.

My Thoughts

I have had a dual reaction to playing this game with my children. One from a parents point and one from a teachers point.From my teachers point of view this game is not only fun but it has helped my children, especially my 5th grader, how to form sentences correctly. As a parent, I am happy to see an educational game that helps our children grow and learn. I am so pleased with this game and my family has enjoyed lots of laughter filled evenings playing it. I recommend this to everyone! Kids can have fun and learn too!

I am so happy to say that the wonderful people at McNeil Designs has offered to donate two games for a giveaway to some lucky Dirty Shirt readers. Please see rules below to enter to win a You’ve Been Sentenced! game today!

Giveaway

MAIN RULE – Tell me in comments who you would share this game with if you are the winner. (remember if this rule is not followed then no others will count)
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2 Extra Entries – Write a post on your blog linking to my blog.

This giveaway will run through midnight on November 23, with winner being announced the morning of November 24. Winner will be chosen using Random.org from all valid entries and notified via email. Winner will have 48 hours to contact me before another winner is chosen. Giveaway is open to U.S. residents only.

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