Hooked on Brands?
Introducing Brandoodles® --
The Brand Name Guessing Game
Bellwood,
IL -- Think you are a brand name expert?
Try the challenge of Brandoodles®, a new board
game that fuels Americans obsession for brand
named goods. Brandoodles® is a classic hangman
game where the clues are based on supermarket
brands in three categories - Health and Beauty,
Food and Beverage, and Household Products.
The object of the game is to guess letters of
the alphabet that reveal the name on selected
clue cards that keep players and onlookers guessing.
The game play engages the player in a near pathological
connection to the 1000 well-known brands because
its content is so strong and memorable to all.
"The typical American consumer is an obsessive-compulsive,
brand-craving shopaholic that can instantly recognize,
identify with and purchase the vast majority of
the 47,000 or so branded items on supermarket
shelves without batting an eyelash," said
Belcom Corp. CEO Errol S. Doris Sr. developer
of Brandoodles®. "Instant recognition
of these products in Brandoodles® is a perfect
example of why America is so obsessed with brands."
Brandoodles® is an easy-to-learn game that
offers players a mix of passion for board games
and vivid memory recall of the plethora of products
that end up in every pantry each week. The fast-paced,
nail-biting, frantic and on-the-edge-of-your chair
fun lasts for about twenty-five to thirty minutes
of playing mere four or five clues for each session.
The game consists of enough brand name clues to
last years even with four to six players guessing
away at recognizable brand name classics like,
BETTY CROCKER® CAKE MIX, PLANTERS® DRY
ROASTED PEANUTS, COLGATE® DENTAL CREAM and
TIDE® LAUNDRY DETERGENT.
Brandoodles® retails for $19.99 and is available
exclusively at http://www.brandoodles.com/.
The game is recommended for players ages 12 to
adult. Each Brandoodles® game contains a Lucky
Number Card with a chance to win a $150 Shopping
Spree in any store in America, sponsored by the
game developer. The winning numbers are posted
each week online on the game's website.
The formula for Brandoodles® success is similar
to Wheel of Fortune. The game controller chosen
keeps the clue cards hidden and writes answers
with a dry erase pen, one letter at a time, on
the game box-turned-into the letter board Wheel
of Fortune style, until the correct answer is
guessed. Instead of a spinning wheel, players
guess letters and move their game tokens, one
space for each consonant along a colorful serpentine
patterned game board. If a token lands on a "Pick
A Vowel" space, the player may select a vowel.
It is the only time that vowels can be chosen.
Players have to avoid landing on the "Lose
a Turn" spaces.
Players are rewarded cash and prizes from a deck
of "reward" cards from which they select
their winnings each time they select a correct
letter. On occasion the "Bankrupt" card
may rear its ugly head, sending them back to the
bottom of the reward ladder.
About Belcom Corp.:
Belcom Corp. is a privately held Illinois Corporation
in its twentieth year in business. Belcom CEO
Errol S. Doris Sr. is the developer of Brandoodles®.
Over the years, Mr. Doris has developed several
games including MOTTO -- a Top 20 Game sold in
the US in 1987 and KING O'KINGS -- a strategy
game, ROUND O'GOLF -- a golf instruction game
and PULSE -- the human body mystery game which
have sold exclusively in Japan. Mr. Doris is the
first American to have demonstrated the company's
games in major department stores in Japan, according
to the All Nippon Games Club consisting of 75,000
members. Belcom is a pioneer in the area of Flat-Bed
Digital Printing having developed and installed
the first commercial wide format digital printer
in North America in 1991 to the sign industry,
and in 2000, the first industrial digital printer
to the packaging industry. Prior to selling its
main business to HP Scitex (a Hewlett-Packard
Company) in 2005, Belcom has been a major distributor
and support force for the world's leading manufacturers
of Industrial Digital Ink Jet Printing Systems.
The company currently provides graphic arts and
consulting services and operates Digital Printing
Companies that produce packaging products, displays
and board games.
For more information on Belcom, visit www.belcomcorp.com.
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