Rhyme Antics Game
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| Designer(s) | Chantel Calloway |
| Release | November 1, 2015 |
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Rhyme Antics - The hilarious rhyming vocabulary game is a board game created by Chantel Calloway published in 2015 via the Indiegogo crowdfunding platform. It is a rhyming vocabulary game inspired by hip-hop designed to elevate the players’ vocabulary,creative wordplay and imagination[1][2][3].
As of 2021, Rhyme Antics is sold in over 500 stores across the US and is the 1st Black-owned game to be sold in big-box retailers Target and Walmart. The founder has raised over $350k in seed funding . Investors include Charlemagne Tha God, host of the Hall of Fame Radio show The Breakfast Club[4].
History
Rhyme Antics was discovered by Chantel Calloway and is backed by her multiple years of extensive research on US literacy and Black-owned businesses. Initially, the idea was pitched to Defy Ventures - a criminal background-friendly accelerator, in order to acquire funding for this venture. Within two years, Rhyme Antics won Calloway over $20,000 while associating with Defy Ventures, which she used to launch the board game in 2015 with the help of The Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign[5][6].
The Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign exceeded its $10,000 goal by pre-selling more than 300 copies of Rhyme Antics in a month of its launch. Rhyme Antics has also won Target's 2019 pitch competition which has resulted in it becoming one of the top selling new games in the USA[7].
Features
Rhyme Antics was designed as an innovative game that promotes literacy while paying homage to the roots of Hip Hop artistry[8][9][10].
The board game consists of: 135 Playing Cards (Easy, Intermediate and Intellectual) 1 Scoreboard 2 Playing Card Clips 1 Microphone 1 Dry Erase Marker 1 60-Second Sand Timer Free IOS Music App
How to play
Each team has 60 seconds to "Pass the Mic!" and freestyle a rhyme verse. The players then have to then guess the rhyme words printed on the back of the playing card to earn points. The player with the highest four-round score wins.
During the game, the players must enunciate verses that are complete thoughts or sentences. If a player is unable to come up with a rhyme verse in a timely manner, they can miss that turn only if their teammate calls out, "Pass the Mic!"
Rules
- Players must rhyme to the game's music app companion's beat and compete in a rap battle using only "proper" English
- The word that rhymes with a playing card will not win the players any points
- Points are only awarded just for the last word of the player’s freestyle verse
- Points will not be awarded for forced rhyme words
- There are no points for adding a suffix to a rhyme word
- People's names will not gain the players any points
In the media
References
- ↑ "Rhyme Antics Game". www.target.com. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
- ↑ "Rhyme Antics Inc". F6S. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
- ↑ "Rhyme Antics". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
- ↑ "Rhyme Antics -The Hilarious Rhyming Vocabulary Game". Walmart.com. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
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- ↑ "RHYME ANTICS - The Toy Box". www.thetoyboxamherst.com. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
- ↑ "Games". WeBuyBlack. Retrieved 13 July 2021.