Morphology Board Game #Review

"Morphology Games launched in late fall of 2009, quickly selling out its original units and in 2010, went to the New York Toy Fair where it received two “Top New Toys of 2010” nods. In the fall of 2010, Morphology was selected as TIME’s Top Ten Toys list as the Number 2 Toy of the Year."
~ From the Morphology website.

{Morphology Product Info}

• The hilarious guessing game where creativity wins!
• 4 or more players
• Ages 13+
• 51 pieces for morphing
• Made in China

 {Morphology Junior Product Info}

• 4 or more players
• Ages 8+

{How to Play}

• Draw a word from the deck (easy or hard side)
• Build the word using the pieces
• Get your teammates to guess the word in one minute.
• Be ready for hilarious twists and turns as you are challenged to build with your eyes closed or only one hand...

{My Review}

I love board games. I think they are a great way to have fun with friends and family during any occasion. Board games are a staple in my house. I think I have close to 20 adult board games. I don't even have any children's ones yet because my sons are not old enough. Once they are interested in board games, watch out, a whole new influx of games will occur!

I am always on the look out for new interesting games. When I got the opportunity to review Morphology, I was super excited. It is the first game that I have reviewed on my blog.

It took me a while to find enough people to play with me. You need 4 players and my husband does not often want to play games. This has always been an obstacle with 4 player games.

I played the game twice in two very different circumstances. The first time was with my mom, sister and cousin during the day with our kids running around. The second time was with my husband and two friends after the kids had gone to bed. It is much easier to play without a toddler trying to steal the colorful pieces!

Morphology is fairly simple at first glance. You pick a card and choose either the "easy" or "hard" words. Then morph the game pieces to try to depict the word and get your teammate(s) to guess.

Depending on where you land on the board you may have to roll the die and perform a twist, such as using the string only or closing your eyes.

I really liked the game but we found some of the words are way too hard to make in only one minute (especially if you have to perform one of the twists mentioned above). For example: hide and seek, farmer, oink, and whistle seemed impossible.

Can you guess this one?  ---  Runny Nose LOL

We came up with a few suggestions for improvements:

1. The string should have a "memory" like a pipe-cleaner so it could stay in the position wanted.
2. There should be categories such as: animal, object, verb, person
3. There should be cards for the String Only twist, object that could actually be made with only a string.
4. The rules should be a little more clear. We could not understand how Pick 3 (the last board square) worked. 
5. A longer timer. We decided to allow the morphologists to choose the pieces they wanted before starting the timer, otherwise we rarely had enough time. 

This is me trying to understand the rules for Pick 3. (I didn't succeed.)

Things we loved:

1. All of the fun colorful pieces.
2. When the word was an object it was much easier and more fun to morph.
3. The large quantity of cards.
4. That you can move the pieces to help your team guess.
5. That expansion packs with more pieces and cards are available. 
6. How creative the game enables you to be.
7. That it is reasonably priced.
8. How it is such a unique idea that builds onto the other "drawing/guessing" games out there.

I really enjoyed playing Morphology and will definitely continue to play in the future. I bet my 12 year old niece would love this. She is very creative. My husband was not a huge fan but he is not much of a board game fan to begin with. I think the expansion packs would make it easier. We altered the rules slightly to allow for more time and if we thought the word was really too hard than we skipped that card.

I would recommend this game to my friends and family. I had a lot of fun playing it. I just feel that it needs a few tweaks to make it a little easier. I will buy Morphology Junior when my kids are old enough because I believe it is a game that kids would really enjoy also.

{Buy It}

Morphology --- $24.99

Morphology Junior --- $29.99

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