21st Century Catch Phrase

As many of you know, we are fond of playing Catch Phrase on Fridays. Well last week, Maggi's sister Katherine surprised us with 2 new games: Catch Phrase Music Edition and Electronic Catch Phrase! They don't even come in a box like our old antiquated Catch Phrase and the timer is built into the game -even the scoring system is too! No separate pieces. What a great surprise - thanks Katherine, you really know MBM!

Of course we had to play one of them right away and went for the new Electronic version of Catch Phrase, since we are used to how that works. It's a bit harder than what we're used to - it seemed that there were a lot more phrases and harder words to describe(like "fingernail decal"?), but we welcome the challenge and the fact that we have new words to describe to our teammates (we had cycled through all of the words on our old game)!

Since we had not yet played the Music Edition, we decided to give it a go yesterday afternoon. The objective is to have your team guess the song name - you can sing the lyrics and describe the song, but you can't say the artist or the song name. I'd say we did OK, but it's pretty challenging! We chose a mixed category of songs and got everything from Vince Gill to Jethro Tull to 50 Cent. Megan and Courtney won the game, but who knew that Courtney knew so many pop music lyrics (Genie in a Bottle)?