BrainBox: Awful Ancients

1–99 players · 10 min · 8+

This is the second of our Horrible Histories BrainBoxes. Find out how truly awful our ancestors were.

The object of the game is to study a card for 10 seconds and then answer a question based on the roll of a die. If the question is answered correctly, the card is kept and the person with the most number of cards after 5 or 10 minutes is the winner. This simple concept can be played by all ages and in large groups as well as a 1 person game.

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