Family Games

Quick Play Guide to “You’ve been Sentenced!”
  1. Everyone draws 10 cards face down.
  2. When everyone is ready, turn your cards over and spread them out on the table in front of you. .
  3. Using the words on the cards, build the best sentence you can that is both grammatically correct and makes some sort of sense. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE ALL 10 CARDS!
  4. The first person done starts the timer. Once you start the timer, you can’t touch your cards. Everyone else can until the timer runs out.
  5. When time is up, if you started the timer, read your sentence to the other players.
  6. If no one objects to the grammar or sensibility, you get the points for the words used in your sentence.
  7. If someone Objects, explain and defend your sentence. Everyone other than the objector and defender then votes. Majority thumbs-up, you get the points. Thumbs-down… Zero points. Ties go to you, and you get the points.
  8. Next person clockwise takes their turn. When everyone has read and voted on the sentences, everyone discards their hand, draws 10 new cards, and starts a new round.
  9. First person with the highest score over 200 at the end of a round, WINS!