Have you played any variation of the Forehead Game before? It doesn’t actually always involve your forehead – the popular icebreaker has each player wear the word they have to guess on their back.
The point of the game being that each person has to guess what their card says, the catch being everyone else knows except the person with the card. It’s an awesome indoor game for kids (and adults).
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Two of my family’s favorite games are Hedbanz (a board game) and Heads Up (an app). Because we love these games so much, we blew through the cards/clues that came with them long ago. Luckily, it’s pretty easy to make your own forehead game at home so you don’t have to wait for someone else to create bonus sets.
Today I’m going to show you how to make your own forehead game. I’ll also explain how different forehead games are played so you can choose the way that is the most fun for your family.
How to Make Your Own Forehead Game Clue Cards
While the gameplay for Hedbanz and Heads Up is slightly different, the one thing these forehead games both have in common is clue cards. These are the words that the players have to guess based on the clues provided by the other players who can see them.
Both games also use timers. Any kind of timer will work – a kitchen timer, a timer from another game, a timer app on your phone.
To make your own clue cards, you have a lot of options. If you have index cards or sticky notes laying around, you can simply write your own clues on them.
If you want sturdier cards, you can use playing cards and glue pictures onto them.
I like to print my own cards on white cardstock. If you don’t mind using the same cards multiple times, you can even laminate them with clear contact paper or a small laminator (they’re less expensive than you’d expect).
I created a template in Word for the cards and just add images (for younger kids) and words. Feel free to download the Printable Forehead Game Cards and template for your personal use. Just click the image below to access the file.
More Cards for the Forehead Game
Want more cards? You can buy the full set of 120 cards I’ve created. The complete set comes with instructions for three different games you can play with the cards (headband game, memory, and 20 questions).
How to Play Hedbanz
To play the board game Hedbanz, players each wear a headband and slide a card in the slot on the front. This allows the other players to see the card while also ensuring the person wearing the card can NOT see it.
To achieve this in your homemade game, you just need a way to hold the clue cards on each player’s forehead. Since we have four females in our home, we had a ready supply of elastic headbands on hand so that’s what we use.
If you’re making your own game that you intend to use often for family game nights, consider a set like this one so each family member can have their own designated color. I’m a big fan of color coding my family.
You can also make a simple construction paper headband like we all did in preschool or kindergarten to be Indians at Thanksgiving.
- Glue two strips of paper together to form one long strip.
- Wrap the strip around your head, starting centered on your forehead.
- Staple together where the pieces overlap at the back of your head.
- Cut off the excess paper.
Then, just stick a paper clip in each headband in the middle of each player’s forehead to hold the clue cards.
Set Up
Place the cards face down in the middle of the playing area.
Have each player place a headband on his or her head.
Each player takes one card and WITHOUT LOOKING at the printed side, places the card in the center of his or her headband with the printed side visible to others.
To Play
Youngest player goes first and play passes to the left.
On your turn, start the timer and ask the other players “yes” or “no” questions to help you figure out what item is on your forehead. Ask each player one question, starting with the person on your left. When you’ve asked each other player one question, you may start again as long as the timer hasn’t run out.
At any time that you think you know what the card is, you may ask “Am I ….?” and if the answer is no, you may continue asking questions.
If you guess your card before the timer runs out, you may take another card and try to guess it before the timer runs out.
To play without a timer, limit the number of questions each player can ask other players. If they cannot guess the card within that number of questions, their turn ends.
When players guess their card correctly before the timer (or number of questions) runs out, they get to keep the card as a point.
The first winner to have three cards/points wins.
How to Play Heads Up
The “official” game has 60-second rounds but you can make your rounds however short or long you want, as long as they are the same for both players/teams.
Heads Up is a two-player game. If you have more players, you can simply divide into two teams.
Set Up
Have each player sit opposite each other with the cards face down between them.
To Play
Decide who will go first (we always play rock-paper-scissors to determine).
On your turn, start the timer. Pick up a card without looking at it and hold it to your forehead so the other player can see it. He or she must give you clues to help you figure out what item is on the card.
When you guess a card correctly, set it on your left. If you want to pass, set it on your right. Anytime you set a card down, pick up a new one until the timer runs out.
When the timer runs out, the second player takes his or her turn following the same guidelines above. At the end of the second player’s turn, each player counts the number of cards in the pile on their left. The player with the most cards wins.
If you want, you can play until one player reaches a certain score (e.g. 25 points).
More Family Fun
I hope you have as much fun playing these forehead games as my family does! They are such fun and easy games, that just happen to improve deductive reasoning and communication skills at the same time.
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Night Fury: Speed: Unknown. Size: Unknown. The unholy offspring of lightning and death itself. Never engage this Dragon. Your only chance, hide and pray it does not find you.
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You know, I just happened to notice the book had nothing on Night Furies. Is there another book? Or a sequel? Maybe a little Night Fury pamphlet? WHOA!
In the original How To Train Your Dragon, when Hiccup looks up the existing information about the Night Fury dragons, everything is listed as being 'unknown', yet everyone seems to be able to immediately identify that Toothless is a Night Fury.
This continues into the second movie, where Eret, Valka and Drago all immediately recognize the species. Valka states that Toothless may be the last surviving Night Fury.
The Night Fury species seems to be awfully recognizable for a species that is supposedly all but extinct, and that no information is known about it.
What happened to the rest of the Night Fury dragons? Is this addressed in any of the extra materials, or in any of the books?
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In HTTYD 3 the main villain, Grimmel confirms his goal was to eliminate all Night Furies from existence. He claims to have wiped out all of the Night Furies except Toothless. So we know that all the other Night Furies were hunted by Grimmel, and that Toothless escaped, presumably by his mother hiding him as a hatchling, or young dragon, before being killed herself.
This means that Toothless is the only Night Fury left because they were all hunted to extinction but somehow Toothless survived.
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The ultimate fate of Night Furies, as a species, may simply be beyond the capacity of non-winged being such as Vikings to be able to be determined. Even the knowledgeable Valka appeared to be guessing as to their fate.
- Recognizing a Night Fury shouldn't be that difficult. It's flight profile, speed, aerial grace and signature plasma burst should make it almost unable to be mistake for any other dragon.
- Since Night Furies are undoubtedly the most capable of all of the smaller dragons, it is in my mind, unlikely they would be extinct. Hard to find? Yes. Difficult to track? Yes. Highly intelligent and certainly smart enough to avoid Vikings? Most certainly.
- Hiccup was only able to train Toothless BECAUSE it had been injured and unable to fly. The reason there was so little information about Night Furies is likely because they are smart enough to avoid humans.
- Night Furies are an apex predator among dragon-kind and with their speed and flight prowess could possibly venture far beyond the Barbaric Archipelago where the Vikings live.
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In the trailer for HTTYD3, it's revealed that every single other Night Fury was hunted into (almost) extinction by the main villain of the film and his roving band of Night Fury Hunters.
This also provides an answer for the other parts of the question. Why do people know about Night Furies if they're so rare? Because there's a roving band of people hunting specifically for this species, and of course these people are going to spread around a lot of legends about them.
It also suggests that Toothless is the very last of his species, as according to the Night Fury Hunters, they have killed every single one of his species apart from one, which is Toothless.
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The cloak worn by Drago Buldvist, the 'stranger from a strange land' appears to be made from a dragon skin which looked suspiciously like the hide of a Night Fury.
It's certainly possible that HTTYD:3 will be about finding more Night Furies and that Toothless (alpha by strength, courage and nobility) is some Royal Night Fury family's lost prince and that Drago's people are the ones who drove them to the brink of extinction and thus into hiding.
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The director of HTTYD3 has confirmed in an AMA on Reddit that Toothless, a night fury, is indeed the very last of his kind. He will meet a female light fury (a similar but non-identical species) in the upcoming sequel.
Unlike toothless, she is not the last of her kind.
The ultimate fate of the other night furies isn't described.
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Technically speaking there is no outside info that covers anything about identifying a night fury. However process of elimination leads us to believe that Toothless is the last night fury because even Valka doesn't know about them. The other's fate is unknown.
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