Though I doubt I ever will play this game, I certainly wouldn't refuse if it was offered.

I agree. Actually I think we have a group here that plays it quite often and I have turned down a couple of chance, but really that was more a case of the length. I agree that it is hard to play a single game when you have a chance to play several other instead.

That one game has to be awfully good to make that choice... Like Paths of Glory.

Yes, with some (a lot) of questions and things around here, I believe it is 'acceptable' to take a little bit of literary license to answer a question (or to rate a game, etc.). Even in my description, I mentioned that I may try it again under certain circumstances. But, it's about the general under laying feeling of a game.

It's like people that refuse to rate a game a 10's because it says 'you will never turn a game of it down' and then go on to say, 'If I'm in the middle of a game and someone asks to play it, then I feel I have to turn down a game' OR 'if that guy I can't stand to play games with asks me to play it I'm going to turn down a game' therefore I can't rate it a 10.

You still have general feelings even if there are exceptions to the rule.

Generally speaking I don't think I'd ever 'turn' down a game. Although, this game gets the closest.

I'd refuse (and probably have refused) the offer to play this one. No desire whatsoever.

I was looking through the other 10's so that I could add another item. I too saw a few that I don't particularly like and would avoid, but no additional one's I'd refuse.

This one stuck out as one of those games that I'd avoid, but having a family I can't say that I'd refuse it with them (and have played it with them).

I really like charades. I like playing with people who are willing to try and act out the most ridiculous clues possible.

Tsk, tsk, tsk. Party poopers.

Though I played a little charades as a kid, it was never a game. Just a cooperative diversion like you'd see on The Dick Van Dyke Show. There were no teams and such.

But as an adult, a friend and her family taught me the real game of charades and then we taught many, many others. Note: it never took more than two minutes to teach all the possible hand signals (sounds like, words, syllables, short word, song, book, TV show, movie, play, name, and "whole thing's about" pretty much covers it).

We were taught that no one gets more than two minutes (after that, they give up and the team's score that round is zero). And I only recall once or twice that the full 2:00 elapsed. It's such a quick game and everyone on the team is involved (one could even argue that guessing is more fun than giving).

The only people I hear say they don't want to play are introverts who say, "I'll just guess." But every one of those has eventually stood up to join in on the clue giving.

Y'all must hang out with a bunch of dolts.

Hang out? We are!

The first play of this I hated the game, but we found a rule we had played wrong. So, I recently played it again. I don't understand the draw of this game. I guess if it played in an hour, but it's just to long and doesn't hold that much interest. I'd play it a few more times, but I think after a couple more plays, I'd begin refusing to play this one too.

I actually like this one more than Cleopatra which seems to be favored in our group at least. I don't know why. It feels like a lot going on, but in the end it isn't very brain intensive and sometimes I like that.

I think the reason I put the two together is that you are always trying to collect the right groups to make a killing (other than it is Days of Wonder of course).