REVIEW: ROLLICK! The Hysterical Game of Clues and Collaboration

"Rollick! is a hit party game that’s a fast and furious team competition.

With ROLLICK!, the entire team collaborates together to act out clues for one or more players to guess. It’s a hysterical, fun, fast-paced, team competition game that’s an absolute riot at parties, family gatherings, work events, holiday celebrations, with friends, and even loved by teenagers!

With over 750 clues, including words for younger children, suggestions for large and small groups, and other fun variations, no game is ever the same!"

Our family had the unique opportunity to give Rollick a try. The kids first reaction was not one of "ooo's" or "ahh's". This was my fault when I explained that Rollick was much like charades.

Once play began a different story and reaction started taking place. While this game is designed to work with teams acting out a clue to one person, it is easily adaptable to having one player on each team. The kids rather enjoyed stumping each other with the clue cards they ended up with.

There are many variations of the game that you can choose to play. These variations are listed on the instructions to the game. This is helpful for when you do decide to bring Rollick out to play during different sized gatherings. A few examples of the variations are:

Large Groups (12+): Rollick! is a fantastic game to play with large groups.  The only thing that changes with large groups is the number of guessers each team will have. Determine the number of actors and guessers and play as normal. Some suggestions are;

Teams of 6 {4 Actors and 2 Guessers}

Teams of 10 {6 Actores and 4 Guessers}

Less than 6 players:  It can still be played with less than 6 players. Each player will be on his or her own team. One player will hold the clues and the remaining players will act for the guesser. The guesser scores 1 point for each word guessed correctly. 

No Pass Rule:  Some clues require more collaboration than others. Try implementing a "no pass" rule requiring teams to creatively work together without the ability to pass to another clue. You can also allow teams a set amount of passes the entire game to prevent players who are too quick to pass when it gets hard.

Speed Round ROLLICK! Head to Head: Each team will select who will be the guesser for their opponents. Use the same number of guessers you've used all game. Each team randomly selects 5 cards from Rollick! deck. Teams will compete head to head until their 5 words are guessed. No passing is allowed in Speed Round ROLLICK!

Playing with Younger Children: Rollick comes with blue sided cards and red sided cards. Use the blue cards. It might be necessary for an adult to pre-select words that are easier for children to act out. You can even take the time to explain each word so they can better act it out. 

Rollick is not a difficult game to learn, as it only takes mere minutes to explain the rules. What I liked about the game is its simplicity. The only pieces to the game is the deck of 756 clue cards, a small sand timer, rule sheet, and a score pad. The fact that you can play the game easily without using the timer and you can keep score on any sheet of paper if you run out, these are bonuses to me. I do not like trying to find score pads that are specific for a game to be played, nor do I like that games have a mandatory time limit.

Our family enjoys having games that we can play in different ways. We like to games that can better adapt to our needs. Rollick is a short and quick game that can be played in as many rounds as the players see fit. Our family was able to play each round for hours. Even though Rollick does have the ability to be played in a little as 10-15 minutes. This is one of the adaptable parts of this game that I liked. It allowed our family to control how long each round and game lasted.

Here is how we played our normal game of Rollick. Now, even I enjoyed watching them act out the cards in this game.

Here is Sara with her clue card of Cheesburger.

The kids decided by themselves if they wanted to choose words from the blue side or the red side. The blue side of the card are the easier clues, although at times I wondered.

She began by acting out how she thinks a cheeseburger is made. This line of clues had results that even surprised me. Corey first shouts out, "Cow-Milking". 

Trust me when I say, everyone had to pause the game from laughing to hard. Actually, we had to pause many times throughout the game due to laughter!

She ended with what looks like twisting something, as you can see in the above photo. I am not sure how she thinks cheeseburgers are made, but I do know she will be having a lesson in the kitchen soon!

Next up was Dylan, he ended up with a rather easy clue. How can you go wrong with the word "Mummy". Well, you can. The first shout out from everyone was "Zombie". He was determined to continue with this action for five minutes, as the kids went through every monster they could think of.

Corey ended up with a rather tough one. It took him some time to even get started. You can see that he picked the harder side, which as I said is represented by red.

And so he begins to try and act out "American Idol":

Eight minutes later we are seeing him finish his "silent" serenade. Nobody was able to get this one. There were many good guesses. I have to admit that I wouldn't even have gotten it, had he not showed me his card for the picture above.

We all decided he should have another chance. He reached and picked another one. I about choked from laughing, of all the cards he could have ended up with, he ends up with "Guillotine". A person would think this might be an easy word to act out. Corey and I would be the first to tell you how wrong you would be. Without being able to say anything, the movements needed to show a guillotine is very difficult to portray.

He tried and tried! The answers were everything from napping to suicide. I was beside myself and even Corey had to stop because of his own laughing.

The poor boy finally gave up. I would say he almost died trying to act out this one to his brothers and sisters.

Here is an example of why this game is recommended for ages 10 and up. Michael wanted to play so badly. He took out all the cards and scattered them about. 

Every now and again he would stand up holding one. He would then jump up and down waving his arms. We all would guess things and when he clapped he would return to the pile to find another card.

Here are a few of the cards to give you an example of the differences between the easier clue words {blue} and the more difficult ones {red}. This also shows why the game is easily played with a group of people instead of one on one.

The kids took score like this- a tally for each clue word guessed correctly. It seems from the tally that Sara and Michael won the game this time. At least that is what Sara is swearing to. There is a timer with this game, but we found that we did not need it. 


My kids apparently are one of few words when their mom asks them to explain what they liked about the game of Rollick. {Please excuse any spelling errors, grammar errors, and the like. I wanted them to do this one their own with no coxing from me. I really wanted them to portray their honest thoughts, which it seems is rather short. Okay, I must say that I am amazed that my daughter used the word "reasonable"!


Corey {Age 16}
I think the Rollick game was a good game and upsetting. What I liked about the game is when I pick out the card and my brother and sister don't get the thing right and I get the point. the reason why is was upsetting is because when I am trying to act it out I have a hard time acting things out, like the American Idol or the guillotine. 


Sara {Age 14}
I love this game I think it's a great way to get a family together my brother started to get irritated with me not guessing reasonable answers like if the word is speeding ticket i would guess rainbow pandas or glitter . Michael is only 2 and getting the hang of it .i like be able to come home from high school and finish my homework and play Rollick for hours all of us enjoy this game.

Dylan {Age 12}
I think that game is a good to play with family. I love that game! :) so YES!!!!!!!!!!


Michael {Age 2}
"YES!!!!!!!!!!"        

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