So, whether it’s George Clooney pulling a mooney, King Kong playing ping pong or Michael Cane suffering a migraine, it is up to you to make sure your team know exactly what rhyme you’re trying to describe or act out. What are you waiting for!? Grab your teammates and go forth and rhyme! Following the launch of the Pegasus project, India’s IT minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, said the project’s claims about Indian surveillance were an “attempt to malign Indian democracy and its well-established institutions”. He told parliament: “The presence of a number on the list does not amount to snooping ... there is no factual basis to suggest that use of the data somehow amounts to surveillance.”

The artwork on the box and cards is very retro and light-hearted, which compliments the quirky nature of the game. All of the components fit nicely into the box and the overall manufacturing quality is high. The instructions are clear and easy to understand and we managed to get a game underway in about five minutes which was great. Gameplay Overview My other concern is that there are not many cards available in the box if playing multiple games with the same people. After a handful of plays with the same audience the rhymes become easily identifiable for the simple reason that you can remember what is on the cards. I’m sure that the game publishers, Big Potato, are aware of this and are no doubt preparing for a card expansion to refresh the gameplay. Final Thoughts on Obama Llama Cons: A little complex working out instructions, rhyming pairs of celebrities starting to feel a bit dated. Delivery is on a selected date, you can choose a delivery day of your choice, up to 10 days in advance (Excluding next day delivery. Postcode restrictions apply)

Creative Play

You can read NSO Group’s full statement here. The company has always said it does not have access to the data of its customers’ targets. Through its lawyers, NSO said the consortium had made “incorrect assumptions” about which clients use the company’s technology. It said the 50,000 number was “exaggerated” and that the list could not be a list of numbers “targeted by governments using Pegasus”. The lawyers said NSO had reason to believe the list accessed by the consortium “is not a list of numbers targeted by governments using Pegasus, but instead, may be part of a larger list of numbers that might have been used by NSO Group customers for other purposes”. They said it was a list of numbers that anyone could search on an open source system. After further questions, the lawyers said the consortium was basing its findings “on misleading interpretation of leaked data from accessible and overt basic information, such as HLR Lookup services, which have no bearing on the list of the customers' targets of Pegasus or any other NSO products ... we still do not see any correlation of these lists to anything related to use of NSO Group technologies”.Following publication, they explained that they considered a "target" to be a phone that was the subject of a successful or attempted (but failed) infection by Pegasus, and reiterated that the list of 50,000 phones was too large for it to represent "targets" of Pegasus. They said that the fact that a number appeared on the list was in no way indicative of whether it had been selected for surveillance using Pegasus. When a team gathers three points, they may turn over two cards from the multiple cards that will be laid out in front of them. There are matching cards hidden within these and it is up to you to find the matching pairs. Once found, keep hold of those cards as the team with most amount of rhyming pairs at the end of the game will be the winner of Obama Llama! For describe cards, you simply need to describe the phrase without using any of the words featured in the phrase. With act cards, your team can see the celebrity on the reverse of the card whilst you do your best to act out what the celebrity is doing. For example Orlando Bloom using a broom. Personally, the easiest cards for players with little celebrity knowledge are the solve it cards. These cards just feature sentences which are read out. Your team just has to guess the rhyming phrase from the sentence alone. Numerous editions of Trivial Pursuit have been developed. While the original copy is known as the Genus edition (Genus 1 and now Genus 2) other versions include Junior Edition, All-Star Sports, Baby Boomers and All About the 80s and 1990s.

First of all: a confession. I’m not really one for board games. As a kid, I got incredibly bored – pardon the pun – with Monopoly and although I quite liked Professor Plum, Cluedo wasn’t something that occupied much of my time either. The problem with most board games is that they do tend to date. Take Trivial Pursuit. Certainly most of the questions in our edition are donkey’s years old and many of them now seem quite obscure and even more irrelevant than before. Other phone numbers apparently selected by Delhi were those of the president of the government-in-exile, Lobsang Sangay, staff in the office of another Buddhist spiritual leader, the Gyalwang Karmapa, and several other activists and clerics who are part of the exiled community in India. The consortium believes the data indicates the potential targets NSO’s government clients identified in advance of possible surveillance. While the data is an indication of intent, the presence of a number in the data does not reveal whether there was an attempt to infect the phone with spywaresuch as Pegasus, the company’s signature surveillance tool, or whether any attempt succeeded. The presence in the data of a very small number of landlines and US numbers, which NSO says are “technically impossible” to access with its tools, reveals some targets were selected by NSO clients even though they could not be infected with Pegasus. However, forensic examinations of a small sample of mobile phones with numbers on the list found tight correlations between the time and date of a number in the data and the start of Pegasus activity – in some cases as little as a few seconds.There are 20 cities to choose from including London, Berlin, Rome and Istanbul in Europe and you can choose questions that are easy or hard for each city. Pros: Really good fun, have to use your creativity especially when acting out some of the cards, good for all ages! One member of the team draws a pink card and reads the clue on the card to their teammates. (Not the rhyme in italics!) Their teammates now have to yell out possible rhyming solutions.