Lots of Cranium fun with Classic Cranium or Cranium Turbo. If you want to include younger kids then choose the Cranium Family edition. Need something to break the ice at a family reunion? Then choose Cranium Whoonu, where you'll find how how well you know each other. Need to let kids blow off some steam and use stored-up energy? Cranium Hullabaloo will make it so much fun you'll want to join in! Cranium Cariboo will let the youngest members of your family sharpen their skills as they hunt for treasure.

Yes, Cranium is a board game where you must move around the board the fastest and end up on the purple cranium in the center. But Cranium is much more than that! To move around the board you choose a card from 1 of 4 groups.

1. Creative Cat tests your artistic talent. You'll be sculpting, drawing with your eyes closed and lots of fun art crafts. Don't worry you don't need to be a budding Picasso to win or have fun.

2. Word Worm tests your ability to unscramble letters, spell, guess definitions, fill in the blanks, even asks you to spell a word backwards.

3. Star Performer is great for those with acting and music ability. You'll be asked to hum a tune, impersonate a celebrity, or act out a clue as you would do if you're playing charades.

4. Data Head tests your knowledge of trivia with interesting true/false and multiple choice questions.

Just remember, Cranium is all in good fun and there's usually something for everybody to shine at. Once you know all of the original game tasks and knowledge, you can buy the Cranium Booster Box, which contains 800 cards and mind-twisting tasks. Suggested Age - 13 years and up.

This is Cranium on steroids and intended for folks from teen-agers on up. Cranium Turbo edition has 1,000 provocative cards, including Rally cards, 16 activies (6 of which aren't found in the orginal Cranium game), an electronic timer with music and lights, Cool Cranium Clay, and 4 Cranium game pieces. Some of the new categories include:

Mindmeld where teammates are given a category and must write down several answers where one has to match.
Odd couple where you have to figure out which two items don't belong in a list of 5.
Sideshow is category where one teammate has to move another's like a puppet to act out words on the card.

Cranium Turbo Edition is a fast-paced, noisy, raucus game. I love it. If you want to make it a little less noisy, then find another timer. If you want it more relaxed don't use the timer or extend the time period.

The Cranium Family Edition is similar to the basic Cranium game, but it's really designed to foster teamwork among family members and include younger players from about Age 8. You still have the four basic categories, Creative Cat, Data Head, Star Performer, and Word Worm. And there's still the clay.

But in this Cranium game you also have stackable cubes and a set of plastic frogs. The board is also smaller so that the game plays faster.

You can learn Cranium Whoonu in minutes which makes it perfect for parties and get togethers where you want to include new people.

Playing is really easy. You're dealt cards which have a range of subjects from American Idol to ice cream sundaes. You select two that you think the person who is "It" (this rotates each hand) will like best. That person then ranks the selections and points are awarded based on the choices.

It's a great way to find out well you really know each other. Or at a family reunion it's a great way to get to know each other.

Cranium Cariboo is a treasure hunt board game designed for very young children, starting at Age 3. Four early-learning skills - letters, numbers, shapes and colors - are used as children (and grown-ups) find castles, boats, balloons, and more. As your children and their friends grow, they can move into the Cranium Cariboo Expanded Edition.

Cranium Hullabaloo is best described as a mix of Simon Says and Twister. If a child knows colors and shapes, they are old enough to play.

Pads are placed on the floor and one of the pads is the "Lucky Pad." The electronic announcer runs the game and instructs players to "touch their nose" and move through the pads. Sometimes the instructions will go on for 5 moves, sometimes just 1. You never know when the instruction to "Freeze" will come. The person on the Lucky Pad wins. Each game only takes a minute or two. So there's always a chance to win coming up. So little kids don't get discouraged.