Pic Flip Playing Card Game for 2-6 Players

There is a resurgence in card games if you know the places to go. I have played ‘Dobble’ a lot and 'Pic Flip' feels a lot like Mattel's version of that game with enough differences that owning both would work. In this game you all get cards, and someone states an element that is on their face card e.g. a colour or observation. The players then all need to flip through their cards to find an object with that matches. Each game is quick and intense. The game is 7+ and you need to be at least around that age to make sure you can do the flipping element at a decent pace.The cards are well made, and the images are varied and look cool. There are loads of different ways that you can describe things. In this way it can also work as an educational tool as you can try and explore other things than just saying "red". The flicking aspect of the game adds a little interactivity, but it is not as simple to play as the spot the object that ‘Dobble’ is. ‘Pic Flip’ acts as a slightly older version of that game.

I really like this card game. It brings the fun of a matching game to older audiences and is good for the brain! The premise is very simple. The pack is dealt evenly between all players and a card is chosen from the pack to get the game started. Each card has two pictures on it, the range of pictures covered is huge, from a unicorn to a hotdog and everything in between. One of the pictures is chosen to start the game and one player chooses a characteristic of that card that everyone must find a match for. So for example, it might be decided that the hotdog is a food, so players must find another picture of food to match it with. Each player then flicks through their deck of cards to find a match. The first one who finds a match puts their card down on the pile. The aim of the game is to get rid of all your cards.The flicking element of this is obviously the main selling point of the game, and the cards are fairly easy to flick and feel quite durable. You can also play this game with younger children by allowing them to fan out their cards instead, my 3 year old likes to sort through them and we've adapted the game for her level.Overall this is a fun game at a decent price. Easy to pack away and bring on holidays etc, you can keep kids of several ages entertained with this.

This is a very simple game, perhaps best played with an adult supervising to prevent arguments. Basically, a player states a phrase that describes a picture, and everyone then flips through their cards to try to be the first to find another card that could be described by the phrase.The rules are kept simple and somewhat open, though the simple mode of the game offers much scope for adaption and flexibility.The game is sufficiently enjoyable and doesn't take too long. The quality of the cards is okay, but the cards are quite difficult to flip in the manner required (especially for young players). The cardboard box is rather flimsy, though the cards can be stored with an elastic band around them (just like any other playing cards).

Even quite young children can pick up the rules of this game quickly and easily, the idea is that you match a feature of one of the pictures on the cards rather than an exact match such as in a picture snap game. There were a few arguments about decisions so possibly best with an adult or older child around to adjudicate but anything that keeps the children entertained at the moment without resorting to screen time is a bonus.The beauty of it is that younger players are not at a disadvantage and because you are matching a spoken description rather than seeing a picture it is easy to play, obviously becoming harder as you reduce the number of cards in your hand. You can have up to 6 players but 3 to 4 is ideal, I would have liked a sturdier box for storage as the cardboard is already a bit ripped, but all in all an entertaining game to play.

Our five and eight year olds really liked playing this against us. After a run of playing their Dobble matching cards/images games this was similar but different enough to hold their interest. They liked the way it encouraged them to identify a feature of the pictures and the flexibility in their choices, a bit like when they play I-spy and get super tricky with their clues. It did not take much explaining and held their interest for quite a while. Three players seemed to be the magic number for us. Fun!

This is recommended for seven year olds and up, but our six year old grandson got the hang of it straight away, winning a game against my wife and me (thank you, Groucho Marx). It is for two to six players, but you really need at least three to have a good game.There are 6 cover cards and 104 playing cards. Each playing card has two pictures on it. You give each player an equal share of playing cards and one cover card; each person then turns their stack of playing cards face up, with the cover card on top. The youngest player picks one of their cards at random, and states a feature of one of the pictures on it, e,g. “wheels”. All the players then flip through their cards (held as a pack, NOT fanned out) and the first one to put down a card with a matching feature wins the hand; the winning player then repeats the process. The object, of course, is to be the first to get rid of all your cards.To start with, our grandson kept on selecting a colour when it was his turn, but we encouraged him to be more imaginative, e.g. two colours or “something with wheels“.The game is supposed to foster “focus, matching skills and manual dexterity”, and it does this in a fun way. Unlike many games you can play with children, there is no advantage in your adult knowledge, and in fact an intelligent child’s speed can give them the upper hand. (I read long ago that graphics in a comic like the Beano are packed with little details that a child’s sharp eyes will see better.)It would work equally well with just a group of children, though I can imagine some heated arguments. Usefully, it doesn’t need much playing space, just a small area of a table.Good value at £9, and as it’s just a pack of cards it’s easy to carry.