Customers say
Customers find the board game enjoyable and engaging for group play. They appreciate its simple directions that get everyone involved. The game is described as like charades with words, challenging for word lovers. However, opinions differ on how easy it is to use.
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A quick rundown of this product’s key features:
WORD GUESSING GAME: Describe words while the rest of your team attempts to guess them; During each of the 4 courses (rounds) your team will pick a Jalapeño Card, giving you Hot Words you can’t say
THE PARTY GAME WHERE YOU CAN’T SAY THAT: As rounds advance, the play gets harder, hotter and more hilarious as you battle other teams to guess the most words while avoiding the Hot Words
BEWARE THE TIE-BREAKING GHOST PEPPER ROUND: You want more heat, do ya? Only teams that are tied for first place play this round.
QUICK START, ENGAGING GAMEPLAY: Take out the game components, read through the instructions and you’re on your way to a sizzling great game night for four or more players, ages 12 and up.
FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY: Next time you get together with family and friends, bring along a Spin Master game. The perfect activity for memorable game nights, birthdays, dinner parties, vacations, holiday & Christmas gifts, and any time you just want to have fun!
Includes: 1 Gameboard, 4 Team Tasting Boards, 50 Jalapeño Cards, 150 Word Cards, 1 Sticker Sheet, 4 Hot Sauce Bottles, 1 90-second Sand Timer, 1 Dinner Bell
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Our Top Reviews
Reviewer: M
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great (and challenging!) game for word lovers!
Review: I had a great time with this game! I’ve always enjoyed Taboo (which is somewhat similar in concept), but Taboo can be a little too easy/boring at times, and the cards always have the same “taboo” words on them for each word you’re trying to describe, which makes for poor replay value.In contrast, Hot Words is different every time and can get quite challenging once you start adding up some of the types of words that you can’t say, especially with the highest difficulty category. For example, I had a round where I couldn’t use any words with the letter “o” in them AND I couldn’t use any nouns when describing my words, which made things very tricky! (That being said, you can always choose the more mild peppers if you’re with younger players or don’t want quite as much of a challenge.)One potential flaw about this game is that it is NOT relaxing. Some word games like Scrabble or Bananagrams or even Taboo, while they of course require some brain power, are still fairly low-energy games. Hot Words isn’t like that. Your brain will be EXHAUSTED after playing this game if you use the difficult/spicy peppers (which I love, but not everyone might!)Very briefly, here are some pros and cons:PROS:- fun game for word lovers- good replay value / different every time- has the potential to be really challenging if you want it to be- nice theme / aesthetically pleasing- very affordable!CONS:- because of the price, some of the pieces are a little thin/flimsy (they still look fine, but I would have rather paid $20 for higher quality)- might be too challenging for some- requires 4+ players (though it can be modified for 2-3 players)
Reviewer: Mara Ingram-Zamora
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: So much fun
Review: This was a really cool game. It was kinda hard to understand everything at first, we will have to play many more times to get it down I think,yay! Board lay out was simple and easy to use. The durably was as you would expect it to be. Over all it was a great buy and my family will be playing it again
Reviewer: PawPewBare
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Niche item. Cool if you live the Godfather, or are one at heart
Review: Niche item. Card game neat but I doubt I’ll ever get my family to play still I like having it.
Reviewer: L
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great party game!
Review: I gave this to my partner for their birthday and we’ve played it at a few different parties now and it was a huge hit! We’re always so surprised how invested everyone gets into the game and how crazy it can get! Definitely recommend if you’re friends can be creative, outgoing and do some improv!
Reviewer: Shuaib Shameem
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Super fun!!
Review: Great party game, if you enjoy Taboo, this one is highly recommended as it adds to the fun
Reviewer: Cole
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fun game full of mysteries and surprises
Review: Played this game with some of my family and it was supper fun the game it’s self was full of misery and surprises. The game took a bit to play and was easy to set up we will definitely be playing this game at the next get together.
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fun game
Review: I bought this for my 8th graders to play and it was a hit. They really enjoyed it and wanted to play the next day. It’s like charades with words.
Reviewer: Carlos F.
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The cards is in Spanish…! WHY?
Review: No estoy nada contento, las instrucciones vienen en inglés, pero las cartas en español, se me hace muy ridículo, espero que me resuelvan las situación, así NO ME SIRVE.
Reviewer: Elev8 Group
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Couldn’t work out how to play this and I have an iq of 140
Reviewer: Jocelyn
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: So, my box wasn’t sealed properly when I got the game, but I thought nothing of it. However, when I started to play the game with my friends we were missing a deck of cards and some of the playing tokens.The game itself is fine, however the fact I have missing pieces and the box looked like it had been previously used is off-putting. I paid full price for this game for this disappointment.
Reviewer: Brianna
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Loved this game for games night with our friends, really makes you think!We enjoyed learning and playing this game, instruction manual included!
Reviewer: Brenda
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Easy to learn and fun to play
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Box was scratched and damaged, and board game appeared to be previously used as it was not sealed.
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