Cortex Challenge

Cortex Challenge is a fun party game for up to 6 players that challenges your brain in a variety of different ways.

In Cortex the aim of the game is to finish your cardboard brain (made up of four pieces) before any of your competitors. To claim a brain piece you need to collect two cards of a similar type by completing the challenge that is on it. Each turn your draw one of the square cards. An example of one challenge you might have to complete is spotting the animal that appears twice on the card before any of your fellow players find the match or a challenge where you have to figure out which object appears the most times. If you are the first to complete a card you can collect it and hopefully cash two similar cards in for a brain piece.

Cortex is a really quite fun party game where everyone gets stuck in, trying to out-compete each other to collect those precious brain pieces. It gets particularly exciting near the end of the game when everyone is desperately trying to claim those cards and win their fourth bit of brain. It is also not like a general knowledge quiz as their is no pre-required knowledge. However, one bad point about this game is that there are some special touch cards. I didn't like these, as when you draw one, only the person who won the last round gets to guess, by touch alone, what the textured picture underneath is.  So if you are not very good at Cortex you never get a go at the touch challenge. However apart from that, Cortex is a very good party game which would work perfectly for a games club at school. I would give Cortex a 7/10 overall.