Obama Llama First Impressions
“Now, some have said I blame too many problems on my predecessor. But let’s not forget that’s a practice that was initiated by George W. Bush.”
~ Barack Obama
Welcome to the rhyming game with the funny sounding name! Obama Llama is full of weird and wonderful rhymes. You’ll come across Cara Delevingne on a washing machine, George Clooney doing a moony, and Harrison Ford swallowing a sword. Your job is to describe or mime these rhymes, with your team shouting out as many as they can in 30 seconds time.
Yep, that’s about it… You play Obama Llama in teams, one person rolls a dice and takes a card of the matching colour. You then have 30 seconds to score up to 3 points. For each of the 3 cards, you play this same rhyming game in 3 different ways…
“Describe it” is where you are given the rhyme and you have to get your opponent to tell you what it is without using the words on the card, like Articulate.
So I might say “The singer of ‘Baby one more time’ is very upset and has water running down her face” you would hopefully say “Britney Spears is in Tears”… You get the idea, Spears rhymes with Tears so you have a start on the clue.
The “Mr Spock” card has a different celeb on the back through the deck. This is where you mime the 3 clues but they start with the name of the celeb like the above so the guessers have something to go on.
The “Solve it” are the opposite of the Describe it cards. You have the description of the answer to read out (The singer of ‘Baby one more time’ is very upset and has water running down her face) and you hope the guessers get it right.
After you get a number of correct answers you reveal 2 cards from a deck…
If you are able to match a pair you keep them for a point, most points win.
Obama Llama Summary
Apart from the fuzzy scoring system, this is a good, fun game.
The decks are quite small and the rhyming thing will make them quite easy to remember so re-playability might be a bit low.
But, it is fun for a short party game.
Jesta ThaRogue
