Team Up and Take on Challenges in Party Game Task Team

Draw a card and compete in a challenge, with dice, pencil, or tape measure! The winner takes on the next team while the loser will sit back and judge.

Published by Gigamic, Task Team is a 20-minute party game for 3-18 players.

Gameplay

Players split into three teams. Each round, two teams go head-to-head, while the third team acts as a referee. The referee team will draw a card and read it out loud. The card lists a task, if it’s timed and for how long, how many players on a team participate, and which components are needed to complete the task.

The two participating teams then compete to complete the task, with the referee acting as adjudicator. The winning team gets to keep the card. Each round, the teams swap roles, with the team that won staying in the competition, and the losing team taking the role of referee.

The first team to win seven cards, wins the game.

Review

Task Team is a motley collection of minigames, some of which you might have already encountered in other games or formats. However, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The presentation is quite well done, it’s fun to see how the game uses the array of components that come in the box, and the very fact that the games are randomized ensures that this is a fun way to encounter and play through them. Players never know what they’re going to get next, and that can be fun.

It is certainly quite a mixed bag of games. Some of them are dexterity-based, others guessing games. One is as simple as both competing teams leaving the room and the referee team hides nine cards, then the others come back and try to find them. How much you enjoy that random nature of minigames is going to vary a lot from person to person, but we had fun with it. The fact that we were never quite sure what we were going to get next, was intriguing.

This is a game that needs to be played at home. Also, while you can play it with three players, it is more fun when it really can be played with teams. It’s fun to work together on the cards that allow everyone to participate, or to cheer on a teammate as he competes against another player. It also feels more pleasant to share the refereeing duties with at least one other person. That being said, we definitely wouldn’t recommend playing this with 18 people. You want the teams small enough that everyone will frequently get to compete in a challenge.

Task Team can feel a little random, but the challenges are fun. The components are of a nice quality, the inclusion of tape measures was unexpected but enjoyable, and the challenges that included those were some of the most enjoyable. This is a fun, light, team-based party game that’s a good fit for an evening of just being silly. A player might not win the game but still win a challenge, and that’s just a fun element for a lighthearted evening.

Pros: Big range to the minigames, fun use of teams, interesting components included

Cons: Randomness of the games might not work for all players

Disclosure: we received a complimentary review copy of this game.