LEGO Creationary game review and tips

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I have been staring at LEGO Creationary Game {affiliate link} for years now.  I have nearly bought it for my boys several times, but kept holding back because I’ve heard mixed reviews on the 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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