I saw this game on the cover of a magazine, and in several stores, and it was all the awards it received that got my attention. I needed a game that me and my husband could play with our kids. (ages 6 and 14). That is not an easy task to find a game for such a broad spectrum of ages. We usually stick with Uno. But this looked promising, so we picked it up. We played it wrong the first couple of times, but with each play we figured out the rules better. (it is not one that you can just skim over the rules and "get it" right away. But once you do "get it" it is super simple.) It kind of works like Uno crossed with the strategy of Scrabble. We love it.