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Singing Bee
 Cardinal Industries Singing Bee CD Board Game $19.99 You don't have to sing it well--you just have to sing it right! This home version of the hit TV series the singing bee includes a music CD of popular tunes to test your knowledge of song lyrics! Can you fill in the correct words when the music stops--or will you blurt out something hilarious? Sing along and travel the board competing to BEE the first player to make it to the stage for the singing showdown! For 2 or more players. Ages 8 and up.  The Singing Bee $24.99 The Singing Bee is not a good game for groups. It is confusing and disjointed and needs a lot of organization to pull off as a group game. Also, the questions are extremely difficult. Very few of us could guess the answers with the hints.  Dont Forget The Lyrics Game $19.99 The presentation of the game is fantastic! It's colorful, very reminiscent of the tv show, and I was so excited to start playing. The format is easy to understand and the cards are well constructed with lots of categories and songs to choose from. Yes, I'd love to give this game a better score, but the selection of songs prevents me from doing that. My group knew somewhere around 70 of the songs (literally about 7 songs per category), but that left probably around 280 songs that we hadn't even heard of. Odder still, the selection of songs in each category wasn't even close to what we had hoped for. For instance, in the category of Pop, the song selection we knew consisted mainly of Xmas songs like Jingle Bells and The Little Drummer Boy. That's all they could come up with? With a wide range of categories which includes: Rhythm & Blues, 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, Rock, Pop, Country, Divas, Love Songs, & Million Dollar Songs-they should have ushered in the karaoke favorites the way the show does. While some of the classics from each decade are there, most aren't-and that's very disappointing. Worse off, for the choices they used to be so obscure that none of us had heard of them...it takes all of the fun right out of the game. We love the idea of the game so much, we've considered making our own cards (and have even begun the arduous process...ugh! Got through about five of them and then gave up for the time being). I'll give this game a 3, just for the potential it could have had. Perhaps if they could release an expansion deck of song cards and get that part right-it could turn itself around into a great game. |
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