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Company: Flying Leap Games
Game: Wing It: The Game of Extreme Storytelling
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Language: English
Type of Game: Tabletop Game 📬
Genre: Party Game
Date Played: May 31, 2022
Difficulty (based on 4 players): 1/10
Size of Team: 4-6 Players (Recommended ages 7+)
Time: 20-60 Minutes/ Round
Price: $28.73
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With it being a simple game, the packaging it comes with keeps it nice and clean. It is a fun little theme of penguins with a jetpack for some illustrations. The main draw of the game is the words on the cards. They are in a nice large font that is easy to read and while the situation cards have smaller text, they are unique enough that a second reading isn’t normally needed. The basic rules of the game are outlined on the back of the box but for the more in depth details, a small rules book, a couple pages in length, is provided. It shows how to play the game, gives some optional rules, and introduces a couple of variants. This is a great option, that if your group really enjoys this game, you can get some very interesting improv moments.
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"Wing It: The Game of Extreme Storytelling" takes a traditional party game format and lets the player dictate how the game will turn out and it's very easy to play! First, each player draws a hand of 5 resource cards. One player will draw a situation card and they will be a judge for the round. The situations are farcical and ridiculous and that is what makes the game so much fun. One round you might be trying to rob a private estate when as soon as you grab the loot, you run into your ex who is cooking dinner. Another situation could be having the players assume they are hairstylists cutting hair for a very important client, then they sneeze and destroy the hairdo of said client. How do you get out of these situations?
Once the judge has read aloud the situation, each player takes a look at their hand and finds 3 resource cards to combine and come up with a story to try and remedy or fix the situation. Then, every player describes their story and the judge picks the winner.
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When finally gathering our group to play this game, we had an absolute blast! "Wing It: The Game of Extreme Storytelling" is a game about being weird and wacky with your friends and gives agency to the players. It is a raucous party game that gets your creative juices flowing. Creativity is best formed with restrictions, by only having five cards in your hand and having to choose three of them, it forces the players to think really hard about how the story should resolve and how the situation will end up. With those five cards it gives a large enough pool to create a concise story without being too overwhelmed with choices for your resources. Because this is your story as well, you can take it into any ending you want to go. If you are told that you are a spy and your mission is about to fail you can try and recover that mission or if you have the cards in your hand, you might make up some sort of story that uses you as a double agent trying to steal a large rubber ducky only using gum on the bottom of your shoe.
As much fun as our group had playing this game, I would expect that this game might be a little too freeform for other groups. Coming up with a story on the spot that you then have to announce to your friends might be a social hurdle for some. Understand the group that you are bringing this game to and if it might be a little intimidating for someone, maybe try a different game. On the other hand though, with the cute art design and the simple nature of the game it does present itself as a medium to get hesitant players out of their comfort zone and they just might have just discovered their next favorite game.
Wing It is a great game that is easy to learn by all, play by all, and laugh by all. This is truly a family-friendly game. When going through the decks, all of the suggestions for resources and situations are PG friendly and the humor of the game comes from the players themselves. If you are looking for a more raunchy game, turn your stories in that direction. Players who want to sit and have fun in a non-intimidating environment create other differing yet intriguing stories that will captivate the audience. This is a game that doesn’t tell each group what is funny or what is correct, the game gives you a shell that you then fill up with your own groups dynamic that allows you to enjoy each other's company together!
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Disclosure: We thank GTG Marketing for providing us with a sample of their game. Although a complimentary experience was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever.
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