Big Potato Bucket of Doom: Escape Room Adult Party Game

We got this game for "dinner party" entertainment. Our daughter, who is 10, was desperate to play, having read the outside of the bucket, so we simply screened her cards and took a slightly more PG version of our own stories removing unsuitable cards etc (out of the 70 scenarios in our box only 14 were unsuitable for our daughter). It was absolutely hilarious!! Nothing was lost in doing this and everyone LOVED the game! In fact one card that caused us to cry with laughter was, the scenario 'You are driving a bus and you receive a text to say if you fall below 60MPH the bus will explode' her useless object card "A Flashers Mac" (our screening missed this one clearly!) She assumed it was something to do with a Mac Computer and said she would use it to "hack" the bomb to defuse it ... we were in stitches. You find with many games that the 'brilliant' cards few and far between, but with this each one is fantastic, and because each scenario and useless object combination is always different and played by a different person each time it won't be a game that gets boring quickly. Once our daughter had left the table we continued to play and of course the tone became less PG, we found ourselves utilising multiple object cards in the same scenario to "up the ante" the effect was hilarious. I am going to look for more from Big Potato now! This is genuinely brilliant fun.

I bought this so we could have some fun during a family gathering. The premise of the game is quite simple, there are cards that contain story telling challenges and each person has to invent a story containing the objects and scenario listed on the cards.The game is billed as a "black comedy" and it is certainly that. Some of the scenarios are very weird indeed and it requires some considerable imagination to come up with the best escape plan for example if you are on a plane full of snakes and you have a level 10 Thetan Scientology badge and a scarf knitted by your nan to help you escape.Some of the scenarios and objects are quite adult themed and it is not appropriate to mention them here. When I played this with my grown up son and daughters with their partners they were cringing at some of the tasks and, although we had fun, some of them are probably best for non-family situations.

I bought this as a gift for my husband and we played it at a party with some American family. We all really enjoyed it, and everybody had their own playing style.Upsides are that there are very few rules, so it’s simple to play - we added our own rules for tiebreakers, and upper time limit on each go (some people made up very lengthy stories).The downsides were that we had to explain a lot of English references like marmite and milk floats, also that we ran through all of the cards very quickly and there’s no expansion set.Overall fun and easy to play.

We've had fun playing this game but it does get old quite fast. You definitely need people with a whacky sense of humour to play with - otherwise it just gets awkward and boring. The fun is not really in the game itself but the people you play with!The bucket was badly scratched when we recieved it which was slightly disappointing. However the contents were fine so I guess it doesn't matter.

I was a little disappointed when the bucket was so small! I don't know what I was expecting , it's a card game and doesn't need a big bucket. Maybe I just saw bucket of doom and thought yep loads of props and games but alas no. Still really fun though!

This Game is so much fun! And perfect for Christmas, or any time with a group of friends or family members. I did not realise when I bought it that it was 17+, so I had to remove some of the more 'adult' cards to make it playable for my two sons (ages 11 and 14) but it did not detract from the enjoyment. We played it twice on Christmas day, with different family members, and again after Christmas with others and it was great and different each time - I certainly haven't laughed so much when playing a game for a long time. Such a simple idea, and all you need is a bit of imagination.

We bought this as a Christmas Family game, Played it several times with 8 people and cried with laughter every time! If you're quick thinking, have a great imagination and love telling stories, then this is definitely a game for you. We played it with a group of people aged 16-58 and everyone cried with laughter. Highly recommend and will be playing many more times,

Played this with a group of people at Christmas with ages ranging from 17 to 83. You need to be up for a laugh and be prepared for some quick thinking, but once everyone got the hang of it we had a lot of fun with it. Yes there are adult cards in here, I hadn't looked though them that closely to be fair and wasn't expecting some of them, but they just added to the amusement in the long run. Not a game you can play all night really either. We had a few rounds and increased the number of cards we used each time to add to the difficulty and as long as your gang is up for it, there are some hilarious responses that can be had. Some people wont appreciate it, but if you have a sense of humour and some imagination, it's definitely good for the laughs!