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Games Magazine Best Party Game of the year 2007/2008
GiftTRAP wins GAMES Magazine’s “Best Party Game of the year 2007/2008”
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Puts your gifts to the test!
GiftTRAP is the hilarious new game that’s taking the gaming world by storm and putting the social back into board games.
The goal is to really get to know your friends and family.
You win by knowing your friends and choosing the right gifts, but most of all it’s just fun to play and gets you talking about things that matter.
- 3-8 Players, 5+
- Playtime 45-75 mins
- Learn in 10 mins
- 1 full size game board
- 640 Gift Ideas
- Rules
- 8 Organza Gift Bags containing; scoring markers, gift & choice tokens plus advanced strategy cards
Love to play Trivial Pursuit, Cranium or Apples to Apples - You will love this family party game.
GiftTRAP is all the fun of Secret Santa without needing to shop or wrap.
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GiftTRAP is the Secret Santa of Board Games. Exchanging gifts has never been so much fun. If you’ve never created and shared your “Bucket List” with your friends and family this game is for you. More than a dozen international awards let you know this game is a great time waiting to happen. It’s got great replay value and a very broad appeal. Search the web for hundreds of independent reviews supporting the reputation of this highly innovative and unique game.
It’s the hilarious social conversation starter that will get you and your friends talking “off topic” about all sorts of stuff. Build, share and compare your own personal “Bucket List” as you play.
Despite there being hundreds of party games, it’s rare to find one that adults and children both LOVE playing.
Unlike other party games you don’t need skills in drawing, acting or trivia so it works well when you have a crowd of mixed ages/skills.
Winning praise and attention globally
- "Best Party Game 2008” - Games Magazine
- "Game of the Year 2007” - Faidutti.com
- "Best Party Game 2009” - “Creative Child Magazine"
- "Seal of Approval” - “The National Parenting Center"
- "Winner - Best Products 2007” - “Dr Toy"
- "Top 5 Major Fun Party Games 2006” - Majorfun.com
- "Les Trois Coeurs” Jeux Soc - Franois Haffner
- Tipped as “Top 10 Board Game News 2006” - Yehuda
- Voted “Best Game from a new Publisher” - Boardgame Podcasters Awards
- Featured in “Good Gift Game Guides 2006” - Seattle Morning News
- "Top Ten Games for 2006” - Chicago Tribune
- "The best party game since Craniumt” - Brett Spill Guiden
- Norwegian TV Award - TV2 Hjelper Deg
- Critical Gamers “2007 Holiday Gift Guide"
- Explore over 400 ratings/review at Board Game Geek- the most well regarded board game web resource
Media Coverage
- Podcast onLifehack.org
- Interview on “CFun.com”
- Vancouver Sun “Man strikes Pay-dirt with new board game"
- Creative Commons blog and Yahoo Creative Talk
- The Province & Canada.com “Daughter’s idea gift to dad"
- Castanet.com “Game Goes Global"
- CBC’s Dreamers & Schemers, CHBC & WCNY
Hilarious, educational, insightful
- Develop your EQ skills
- Kids express their true emotions
- Learn diverse bilingual vocab
- Discover who “talks” and who “listens” amongst your friends.
- Share and explore experiences and aspirations
- Build your bucket list as you play!
Want to know how to play?
No need to lie to Grandma!
- Social etiquette prevents honest feedback
- We ALL have funny gift stories to tell
- With time and attention in short supply, knowing your friends is no longer a given
- Regifting speaks to the need to enhance our EQ
- It’s a forum to laugh and celebrate everyone’s individuality
- Be fearless - express your true opinions
- Shopping is a stressful for many people (especially men) - to these people we offer “virtual gifting” therapy
- WAGS can train their partner for the next big gifting occasion. For guys its a great way to drop hints
GiftTRAP & the virtual gift-economy
- GiftTRAP is “virtual gifting” for the real world that parallels the trend of sending virtual gifts to your friends in the emerging virtual gifting economy via Facebook and the like
- We estimate half a billion virtual gifts have been sent online around the world
Geek speak for “Perfect Meta gift"
- GiftTRAP was launched in October 2006 and already it’s been translated into 8 languages worldwide
- It includes 640 diverse gift ideas with something for everyone
- It’s an inclusive game for boys and girls, parents and grandparents
- No trivia, no drawing, no humming, no spelling. Nothing to embarrass you!
- With GiftTRAP the only skill you need is to know your friends
- This is why GiftTRAP works well with a mixed group of ages and genders
- This universal appeal makes sense, after all who doesn’t love to open a gift
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