Loaded Questions On The Go, from All Things Equal, is an easy, simple, and fast game that has players guessing who said what. One player chooses a card and reads one of the four questions on the card. The other players must then write their answers on their score cards and pass them to one player (not the player who read the question). That player reads the answers to the card reader, who must match each answer to the player who they think wrote it. For each correct match, the player earns a point. The first player to earn eight points wins.
We played a few rounds here in the office, and it was a welcome mid-day distraction. I found that coming up with an answer was more fun than guessing who said what, because the questions were surprisingly deep. One question was “What is the most amazing thing that has happened in your lifetime?” This question produced answers varying from personal lifetime experiences to world accomplishments, such as “the widespread presence of the Internet” and “traveling abroad.”
The game is also quick to play, because each round (with four players) can earn a player up to three points. Its small box and four-to-a-card design make it easy to take on-the-go, as the title suggests. This is a good party game for adults and kids alike. Of course, the better you know your crowd, the easier the guessing is—which can either make for easy points or deeper, less-obvious answers. Either way, it’s fun, and while there technically is a winner, it feels more like an “everyone wins” type of game, in the sense that scoring points is less the focus of the game, as opposed to thinking of good answers to the questions.
