Anomia Card Game $ 15.99 Anomia plays off the fact that our minds are positively brimming with all sorts of random information; things to eat, pop songs, websites, etc.

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According to the game designers, the definitions for Anomia are: “1) A problem with word finding or recall. 2) Chaos. 3) The game where common knowledge becomes uncommonly fun!”

Anomia plays off the fact that our minds are positively brimming with all sorts of random information; things to eat, pop songs, websites, etc. Sure, under normal circumstances, it's easy. Anomia Card Game (Sealed) Everest Toys 85. Shipping: + $3.99 shipping. Sequence Board Game by Jax New Sealed. Anomia: uh-NO-mee-uh - Noun - 1) A problem with word finding or recall. 3) The game where common knowledge becomes uncommonly fun!Anomia plays off the fact that our minds are positively brimming with all sorts of random information. Diehard Anomia fans and novices alike will love the Anomia Party Edition, featuring 6 all-new decks and over 425 unique categories, plus customizable blank cards for adding your own categories in every deck! Anomia is simple. Players flip cards until the symbols on two players cards match.

After playing Anomia a number of times, I think you could add to those definitions, “4) The party game where people jump out of their chairs, point frantically, stutter in loud outbursts, and experience brain-freeze.”

That’s because we have yet to play a game of Anomia (with various groups of people) where players could remain seated the whole game. The frantic nature of trying to shout out a word that fits the needed category inevitably leads to players jumping out of their chairs in an unconscious effort to kick their brains into gear.

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While we don’t have any live-action video of this phenomenon in our video review of Anomia, we do give you a quick overview of what this party game is all about.

Can the whole family enjoy Anomia?

Anomia wasn’t made for the youngster crowd. The recommended ages for Anomia are 10+ and we think that’s pretty accurate. Even at that, there will be some categories that will be hard for 10 years olds to come up with items in the category. So Anomia is definitely more fun for older kids and adults.

Just my looking at the game, it’s also obvious that it involves reading (at a frantic pace I might add). Sure young kids could be quick to spot matching shapes on the cards. But once spotted, players have to quickly read the category on the card and think of something that fits before their opponent.

Not to mention there’s a lot of screaming in the game as players try to spew out some answer. And if a youngster’s on the other end of that adult frantically pointing their way shouting out crazy stuff, it can be pretty intimidating.

Don’t tie me to a chair

One of the things that I’ve gotten a kick out of with Anomia is that players have a hard time staying seated. I’ve already mentioned it, but we have yet to play a game where players stay calmly seated. Sure some players are more prone to this than others, but it happens with every group we’ve played with.

When your brain freezes and you just can’t think of an answer that quick, the energy and need to say something quickly, just seems to bring you to your feet.

And when mom rates a game a 5, you can bet it’s a game that will have a nice spot on the game shelf.

How does Anomia score on the “Let’s Play Again Game Meter”?

Anomia has been great to play with a number of groups. It’s also easy to grab and take on the road for some fun times during a summer vacation or getaway. The only downside is that each time you play, you’ll go through one of the two decks of cards. So with repeated plays you’ll get familiar with the categories and be quicker on your answers.

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However, even with that little downside chances are you won’t be playing it every day for weeks on end, so that may not be a worry at all. Rather, plays of it will be spaced far enough apart that we’ll get to experience that anxious brain-freeze all over again.

You can pick up a copy of Anomia for around $15 – which is a great price for the frantic fun it will bring your family and friends.

Thanks Anomia Press for a fun party game!

Anomia is a game. According to Medicine.net, anomia is “a problem with word finding. Impaired recall of words with no impairment of comprehension or the capacity to repeat the words.” After 20 minutes of playing the game, I can personally confirm both definitions. It happened to me, my actual self.

I was playing, as I am wont to do. There came a time when all I had to do was name a guitarist. Any guitarist. Before another player was able to name a fashion designer. Spurred, thus, by spirit of competition, I said, with seemingly total assurance, “Jose Guitaro.” That’s what I said. Honestly. Jose Guitaro. Struck down by anomia while in the prime of playfulness.

Anomia is a party game (due to the unavoidably loud, enthusiastic vocalizations of the players), for 3-6 players. The recommended minimal age is 10. There are two decks, each with 92 cards and 8 wild cards. Each playing card has a noun of some sort, repeated on the top and bottom of the card. In the center of the card is one of 8 different symbols. The wild cards don’t have any words on them, but rather show two different symbols.

To begin the game, players choose one of the two decks, shuffle said deck, and then split it into two draw piles, placed face down on the table. The shuffler then takes the top card from one of the draw piles, places it in front of her, and turns it face up. The next player takes the next card from a draw pile and, in like manner, turns it face-up. And on and on. If it happens that two face up cards both have the same symbol on them, those two players enter into the face-off stage – racing to be the first to name correctly an example of the category on the opponent’s card. The player who succeeds gets the opponent’s card, and places it face down in her winning pile. If an entire round has been completed without a face-off, the game just continues, the next player placing his card on top of his face-up card.

After a few rounds, it is highly likely that a player will have several many cards in his face-up pile. As soon as a match is revealed, and the victor declared, and the card claimed, the card below it is revealed, thus precipitating what the designer calls the “cascade effect.” Which is another way to say mayhem. Mayhem is furthered by the revelation of a wild card, which calls for a match between two different symbols, meaning that if one player is showing one symbol on her face-up card, and a second player showing the other symbol on his face-up card, those two players have a face-off, the winning player taking that card and placing it on his face-down pile.

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The game is very easy to learn, and after only a few minutes of play you’ll be completely, and intensely engaged. In a few minutes more, you’ll understand why you need to be even more focused on whose card has what symbol. And, in a few more minutes, you’ll probably have your first moment of anomia. The rules are easy to read, comprehensive, and sequenced so that they actually walk you through the game, one rule at a time.

Anomia is unexpectedly fun. It comes in a small, mild mannered box – exactly large enough to hold 200 cards and a rule sheet. There are no enticing graphics. No clever cartoons. Designed by Andrew Innes, it is the only game to be produced by Anomia Press. But the fun, my friends, the fun is Major!