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I have been staring at LEGO Creationary Game 
THEN…… Dun dun dunnnnnn, I received it for my birthday from one of my high school best friends! Score! As soon as I got home I was pestered for us to play it, and to let them open it and see al the pieces. I had to remind the kids it was MY GAME, not theirs, and no they couldn’t just open up the bags. MY PRECIOUS!
But, I couldn’t forestall them too long, so we played some games a day or so earlier than usual, because they couldn’t wait until Friday.
Lego Creationary (my thoughts)
- it’s a lot of fun, once you know the category, it can be a challenge to guess what they’re building.
- I like that there are three levels of difficulty in the cards, we all played the easy cards and had a lot of fun.
- You NEED more bricks, if you’ve read any reviews you’ve seen this comment before. To build some of the items it’s very difficult to create them with the bricks included. I had to build a spider, and struggled to create it with the bricks included.
- There is no suggested time limit given in the game, we did two minutes, but I’d probably do three.
- Princess enjoyed it, which is always a big plus for games in our house because she often is a grudging participant.
Lego Creationary tips and tricks
- Either go by a Lego store and use their Brick Wall to get more bricks or sprinkle in some more bricks from your other supplies somehow, because it could use about double the bricks included.
- As I mentioned earlier there is no time given, I’d say you want between 3-5 minutes per builder. Some of the concepts can be hard to think of how to build.
- Start off with easy, no matter how experience you think you are. The picture above is from the easy category. It is not easy to build a canon with the included bricks, so it takes some serious thinking and planning. Once you’re used to it, then move on.
- Allow the builder to answer limited questions or give a hint or two if needed. We got stuck on Princess’ build because it was out of what we were thinking. She rolled building, and was trying to get us to guess tent. That is hard to build for a six year old. But since she could answer questions we guessed it off of that and her one hint.
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We have this game, but we have never played it properly. My kids love playing it their own way, though.
That doesn’t surprise me at all 🙂
Not that we do all that well ourselves on following the rules exactly.
We just bought this game a couple weeks ago. My husband and I rather enjoyed it. My son {he’s nearly 4} liked choosing cards and having us build things for him to play with. More bricks would be helpful for many of the cards.
Oh that would be a fun way to play it!
We got Creationary at the garage sale a year ago, but so far Anna had 0 interest in it – perhaps she would enjoy it more with more players of her age. We would have no problems adding blocks as needed 🙂
Hmmmm…… I wonder if the game is too right brained for her, and doesn’t play the way she prefers games to be played. By contrast, Princess liked it, as long as we didn’t emphasize points too much.
I didn’t think you’d have a problem getting enough blocks 🙂
I am more motivated to get this game now that I read your review. My five-year-old son is a LEGO fan (to put it mildly) and his three-year-old sister joins him every day on a building adventure. Bonus: this game will give me motivation to play with them. I am usually dashing about with housework happy they are occupied with LEGO bricks… Thanks!
I’m so glad the review helped you! We’ve had a lot of fun with it.