MonsDRAWsity Review

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We review MonsDRAWsity, a memory and drawing game published by Deep Water Games. This quick playing game is great for groups of love to laugh.

I’m not much of a party gamer, but I do acknowledge that with the right group of friends or family members, they can be a fun way to pass a half hour. Especially if there are children involved, who have a knack for making you feel less silly when playing a silly game. And if there’s a decent enough hook, I’m open to trying out the occasional party offering. In comes MonsDRAWsity, where players are police sketch artists drawing monstrous aliens recently sighted by local witnesses that most definitely have not been dreaming or hallucinating. Sounded intriguing, but was it fun?

MonsDRAWsity is a drawing party game from Deep Water Games designed by Eric Slauson for 3-8 players and plays in about 15-20 minutes.

The rules are simple and typical for party games where a judge determines whose “answer” is best each turn. Players each receive a white board and marker, then take turns being the Witness, who has recently seen some horrific abomination they must describe to the others.

The Witness has 20 seconds to look at a card depicting the monster they saw, using the time to memorize as many details as possible. After this, they will have 2 minutes to describe the creature, without looking at the card, to the rest of the group, who will spend this phase drawing the monstrous culprit.

The sketch artists can ask follow-up questions at this time, such as whether the creature has eyes, or long claws, etc… After time is up, the Witness secretly chooses which artist has most closely captured the essence of the monster in question, as they remember it, without referring back to the card.

Finally, the monster card is revealed and the artists each choose who they think came closest to the original image that was being described by the Witness. Whoever got the most votes among the artists receives a point, while the artist selected by the