Apples to Apples Board Game

Educational Aspects of Apples to Apples

Promotes Interaction
• Recommended for groups of 4-10 players
• All players are involved in every round
• Rounds takes less than two minutes (even players with short attention spans stay involved)

Improves Vocabulary
• Each card contains a different word or phrase
• Adjectives and adverbs are presented with 3 synonyms
• Multiple meanings are often used in play, for example: two good responses for "cool" would be "skateboarding" and "snow"

Reinforces And Expands General Knowledge Base
• Includes famous people, places and events from history, literature, politics, sports and entertainment
• Information is provided on the cards for topics that might be challenging

Develops Positive Relationships
• Rotating role of judge allows all players to express themselves
• Through their responses, players get to know each other better

Promotes Self Esteem
• Card choices reflect the personality of the player (it could be serious, humorous or personal)
• As judge, each player expresses his or her own choices and reasoning
• Judges respond to the cards played without knowing who played them

Encourages Higher Level Thinking
• The judges often select clever and witty responses
• An effective strategy is to select words based on knowledge of the perspective of the judge, or a good guess as to how the judge might respond