Bean Boozled

Do you remember the every flavored jelly beans from the Harry Potter books and movies?  Well, Bean Boozled is a game that combines a spinner push your luck game with those every flavored beans.

I would classify this as a family game. Heck, when we sat down to play this we had every generation at the table from my kids to the grandparents. I did not expect eating a barf flavored jelly bean would be fun for the whole family but it actually was.

So  how do you play this? It is incredibly simple. You spin a spinner that points you to a specifically colored jelly bean and you have to eat one that matches. The problem is that one will have a typical jelly bean flavor, but one won't.

For example. You spin and get the dark brown jelly bean. You pick one out of the bunch and you might get lucky getting the chocolate pudding, or you might get not-so-lucky and get the other one that tastes like dog food.

We played about six round and the one that spit out the least of them was the winner.

I did not fair so well and actually never got one of the regular tasting beans. The one that was fruit or toothpaste was not so bad. I was glad to get that one last as the one before was skunk.  Yes , and it tasted just like the musk smell of a skunk too. Blah!

What amazed me is how well the terrible flavored beans matched the taste of what they were. Rotten eggs tasting just like a rotten egg and Barf did taste like barf. I think the regular tasting ones were good as no one spit them out but I never got one.

So, if you want to kill 15 minutes with a little game everyone can play and enjoy at a very cheap price this is a good one. Everyone laughed and had fun with it.

I recommend this for a party of family gather to help break the ice with a little game. Good stuff that tasted bad!