There is also a timer, though it is unconventional – it is a farting brain. When the timer goes off and sticks you with the chip everyone will laugh and carry on. As you probably know, timed games are always very high on tension and loudness.

Trivial pursuit, pictionary, monopoly - these are all classics. Categories like buffet food or profession.

There are a couple of problems, neither of which are deal-breakers but are worth mentioning regardless. Those minor quibbles aside, though, this is a great party game that is difficult at first but gets easier.

It comes with 9 oversized dice labelled with a total of 54 different categories, 25 tokens and a battery-operated brain that acts as both a timer and random letter generator.