Red-Handed

The new party game Red-Handed can be played by two to six players or teams. It features nearly 500 clue cards and 50 score and "red-handed" cards.

The game includes five color schemes: blue, green, yellow, red and black/white. Players travel around a vibrant gameboard, landing on colored spaces. Players then receive clues based on the color of the space.

For example, a player stopping on a green space might receive a clue reading, "Having a talent for making plants grow." The correct answer would be "green thumb." A player landing on a yellow space may get a clue reading, "Telephone directory with business listings," with "yellow pages" being the correct response.

Answers to the clues are names of personalities, places, items, expressions, or titles that contain a color. These range from "blue jeans" to "blackjack," "David Copperfield" to "Anne of Green Gables," "out of the blue" to "in the red," and "Golden Gate Bridge" to "Red Square."

If a player correctly answers the clue, he or she draws a card from the stack that contains score cards and "red-handed" cards. Collecting score cards is the object of the game, but players are caught "red-handed" if they draw a card with a red hand on it.

Those players must wait to land on a "hand" space on the gameboard to get rid of this card. Once the player lands on a "hand" space and forfeits the "red-handed" card, then he or she has a chance to answer a clue card and the game proceeds as before. The first player to collect five score cards is the winner.

Joan C. Moravick, president of Games for All Reasons, said, "The original concept of using clues based on colors makes Red-Handed memorable, fun and educational for the entire family. As in life, answers aren't just black or white. The answers in Red-Handed comprise hues of blue, gold tints, green tones and many casts of red, from crimson to pink."

The suggested retail price of Red-Handed is $29.95.