Cortex 2 Challenger

How many times have you watched on tv or listened on the radio to a quiz and thought “that’s sooo easy” “come on! The answers so obvious!” I do it all the time! I’m also one of the awful people who went looking over someone’s shoulder want to correct their puzzles. I can’t help it! I think my whole family’s the same so we when we received Cortex we spent a fabulous evening revelling in the fact that when the pressures on your brain turns to mush……


Cortex Challenge is a small box game for the whole family. The cards are separated up in to 8 challenges and the aim of the game is to answer first and win that challenges card. When you have two cards of the same you can train this in for a brain piece and whoever manages to complete the brain first (there’s 4 pieces to a brain) they win. BUT you can only hold 4 cards at once so be careful what you discard!  The challenges are as said 8 different category’s – Multitasking, Observation, Squares, Analysis, Unique, Combination, Tracking, Touch. You compete against others and the first one to guess the answer places their hand over the card.


Multitasking – the picture on the back indicates which hand relates to which colour – ie Red to right. Flip the card over and raise the corresponding hand to the glove and show the number of fingers on the dice. The dice in the bubble means you need to shout out that number while placing your other hand over the card.
Observation – Which colour is the faulty robot?
Squares – how many squares will it take to fill the holes.
Analysis - What colour bottle top is making the horizontal row...?
Unique – Which image has no duplicates on the card.
Combination – What shapes when turned will complete the image.
Tracking – A maze – which is the entrance to the centre of the maze.
Touch – 10 cards which at the start you feel and memorise. When give to the player they are chosen by the rest of the players and handed over face down to be guessed.


Each card follows a set procedure.


So nice and straightforward yes! To me it was a little too straightforward. It did mean the boys could dive in and play instantly and yes, they enjoyed the games we played but it wasn’t a game that you could play all evening. We managed about 20 minutes with the kids but as adults the games were over in about 5 minutes. I’m aware that there is a children’s Cortex and an original one but personally I think this is easy enough for kids – mine are 7yrs and 10yrs and once the rules were explained they completed the challenges pretty quickly. Also, they remembered the answers on cards for the next round. Cortex2 retails at £12.99 and is more a party game than a family evening game. When tried out with the scouts it filled a perfect 5 minutes in their groups before moving on to something else but personally I don’t think it had the staying power that the price reflects.
A great fun game but more a quick boredom buster than an evening’s entertainment.



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