P.U. The Guessing Game of Smells 2006

From the Publisher: P.U! The Guessing Game of Smells! TM is a new concept in board games. It involves the player using their sense of smell to move around the board. The theme of the game is a race to the finish around through the village of Odorville. Players evade traps set by with a lively the naughty skunk StinkySmellsTM who makes the players smell different smells as they move around the board.

Odorville is made up of different venues where people today encounter smell. Rigorous market testing among kids and parents help identify the venues. The game starts out at a farm and then proceeds to the beach, garbage dump, laundry, candle shops, restaurants, outdoors, garages and ends at the carnival. The board is littered with over 300 elements of smell. Another innovative idea on the board is a changing path which changes according to the landscape the player is currently on. In the farm the player is on a dirt track which changes to grass in the maze, sand on the beach till it ends in cobble stones at the carnival. The best part of the game is not the board or the lovable characters but the scratch and sniff smell cards.

The game comes with 45 cards – 30 of them with smell and 15 cards that have no smell but require the player to identify things that smell on the board. The smell cards are broken in to 3 categories – good, bad and mystery. The game comes with smells like skunk, manure, peppermint, BBQ sauce, popcorn etc. Additional refill packs can be purchased with different smells or different themes.