Party games
30 Seconds
999 Games, 2002
30 Seconds is a party game published by 999 Games in 2002. It is played with 3 to 24 players, from age 12 and in about 30 minutes.
- players
- 3–24
- minutes
- 30
- years
- 12+
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The box
- Publishers
- 999 Games, Calco Games, Denkriesen, Woodland Games Limited
- Designer
- Calie Esterhuyse
- Artwork
- Calie Esterhuyse
- Year of release
- 2002
- Also known as
- 30 Seconds Classic · 30 Seconds Vlaamse Editie · 30 Seconds: Jeu Chouffe spel
About the game
30 Seconds is a charades-like fast-paced general knowledge board game, created by Calie Esterhuyse and first published in South Africa in 1998.
The game is played with two or more teams of at least two players. Each round one player picks a card and has 30 seconds to describe the five objects, people or places written on the card without revealing the card or saying any part of the name.
The aim is for their teammates to guess as many correct words on the card as they can within the time limit for the chance to move their team's token towards the finish line.
The 2400 words across 240 cards need to be regularly updated to remove aged references.
The game has international acclaim and has been translated into several other languages; and is now available for sale in the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, England, France, the USA and Ireland. The popularity has grown to create a junior version too.More from 999 Games
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